Dark Victory (Blu-ray)

I've crammed every minute so full of waste. And now there's so little time. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid!
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 9, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1939
  • Label: Turner Classic Movies

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,208
Rating: C -- A classic women's pic that strings together a collection of syrupy clichés that can make a real man double up in pain. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Apr 9, 2008
Rating: 5/5 -- Bette Davis loses her sight, and we gain a classic. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 22, 2010
Rating: B+ -- Of interest to both Goulding and Davis fans...Dark Victory catches both of them operating at their best while also learning new tricks from each other. Full Review
Nick's Flick Picks
Aug 12, 2004
Rating: 8/10 -- Naught but a torrid melodrama, but oh! what a humdinger of a melodrama it is! It's films like this that give trash a good name. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Apr 27, 2009
Rating: 1/4 -- It's horribly dated, playing today like some weird, contrived burlesque of common sense. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Feb 21, 2006
Rating: 3.5/4 -- One of the finest weepies ever made by Hollywood. Davis is nothing short of magnificent. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Jun 11, 2015
Rating: A- -- Guilty pleasure: One of Warner's best acted melodramas and Bette Davis's all-time favorite, in which she lives hard but dies in dignity as an heiress gone blind. Also Davis revenge as Tallulah Bankhead failed to bring the role to life in the 1934 play. Full Review
Variety
Apr 30, 2007

Product Description:

Bette Davis soars in this superb, soapy starring vehicle, chauffeur-driven by director Edmund Goulding (THE GREAT LIE, GRAND HOTEL). A flighty, energetic socialite with a passion for champagne and country living, Judith (Davis) won't admit there's something wrong with her vision until she almost dies in a horse jumping accident. When a handsome doctor (George Brent) examines her, he discovers a rare and incurable brain disease. They fall in love and get married, determined to make every last moment count, aware that she might pass on at any time. A batch of familiar faces helps make these last few months as happy as possible: Geraldine Fitzgerald, terrific as Judith's friend and secretary; Humphrey Bogart, sporting an occasional Irish brogue as a horse trainer; and Ronald Reagan, slurring up a storm as Judith's boozy pal. Although the men acquit themselves nicely, the film belongs to the women, and Davis and Fitzgerald are both first-rate in this typically tough and lovely Warner Brothers tear-jerker.

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