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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Dark Victory
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Blu-ray Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bette Davis & George Brent | |
Performer: | Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon, Virginia Brissac, Dorothy Peterson & Charles Richman | |
Directed by | Edmund Goulding | |
Edited by | William Holmes | |
Screenwriting by | Casey Robinson | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Robert M. Haas | |
Produced by | David Lewis | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Haller | |
Executive Production by | Hal B. Wallis |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
Bette Davis loses her sight, and we gain a classic.
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Common Sense Media
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.
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Nick's Flick Picks
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.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 1/4 --
It's horribly dated, playing today like some weird, contrived burlesque of common sense.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the finest weepies ever made by Hollywood. Davis is nothing short of magnificent.
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Creative Loafing
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.
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Variety
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.