Christopher Strong

Higher and higher! Faster and faster! She gave herself to the great god Speed, and tried to run away from the fires within her!
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 17 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: April 20, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1933
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 118
Rating: 3/5 -- Good cast and from Hollywood's 'Golden Age,' but Arzner's typically flat direction grounds it.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 24, 2003
Katharine Hepburn, so far as this reviewer's opinion runs, is the next big star of pictures. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Mar 19, 2018
Neither producer, director, nor audience evidently ever once asked the question: what is the picture about? Full Review
Vanity Fair
Jun 14, 2019
Rating: B+ -- At the time, Arzner's film was not well-received, but later, feminists and other critics reexamined the incoherent saga in terms of gender roles and singled out Hepburn's turn (her first starring role) as an aviatrix and her penchant for bizarre outfits. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
May 12, 2007

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Katharine Hepburn made her stunning screen debut as John Barrymore's daughter in 1932's A Bill of Divorcement. In Christopher Strong, Hepburn's second film and first star vehicle, the intelligent, liberated and unconventionally beautiful actress chose to play an intelligent, liberated and unconventionally beautiful aviatrix who soars into a torrid affair (with Colin Clive as a fellow aristocrat)... and crashes into unendurable heartbreak. The melodramatic story is as much keen-edged steel as tears, thanks to Hepburn's gutsy performance and to the taut direction of Dorothy Arzner, classic Hollywood's only major female director. Among the film's highlights: Hepburn simply astonishing in silvery lamé heading to a costume ball as the world's most glamorous moth.

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One of the rare films from Hollywood's classic period directed by a woman, the pioneering Dorothy Arzner, examines a woman aviator's unconventional life. The bold aviatrix finds herself pregnant and in love with a married man, and makes a desperate decision in a world without options. Hepburn is absolutely stunning (particularly in one bug-like costume) and who, after all, could better portray a heroically independent woman in the 30s'

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