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Our Town review by RJNeb2 from London

Small town, big ideas 15 May 2010
... the century. Ordinariness is indeed what the film is about so it's to director Sam Wood's credit that he tries some new tricks, the best of which is a dream sequence w... Read customer review

Sam Wood - filmography

For Whom The Bell Tolls on DVD (1943)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou
Director: Sam Wood
Certificate:
Ernest Hemingway's 1939 novel, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, stands among the great pieces of American literature. Sam Wood's direction of the script by Dudley Nichols stars Gary Cooper as Hemingway's pain-ridden, love-torn hero, Robert Jordan, a Montana schoolteacher who risks his life to fight Franco'..read more »

54% from 921 members

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Director: Sam Wood
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Dramatic study of all-time great Baseball star Lou Gehrig, who suffered from a fatal illness but fought on through a loyalty to friends and fans.

63% from 18 members
Currently unavailable

Our Town on DVD (1940)
Starring: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter
Director: Sam Wood
Certificate:
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Touching film version of Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize winning play that explores the love, humour and pain in the lives of two families in the woodsy New Hampshire town, Grovers Corners. William Holden and Martha Scott succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying and bearing a ..read more »

47% from 49 members

Kitty Foyle on DVD (1940)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Director: Sam Wood
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph ..read more »

64% from 27 members

Gone With The Wind - Blu-ray (1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Certificate:
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Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. ..read more »

78% from 577 members

Goodbye, Mr. Chips on DVD (1939)
Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Director: Sam Wood
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Based on the novel by James Hilton, GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS is the story of a shy schoolteacher who dedicates his life to his boys. In an Oscar-winning performance, Robert Donat plays Mr. Chipping, a young classics scholar en route to his first assignment at the reputable Brookfield school. Although his ..read more »

74% from 3,033 members

Gone with the Wind on DVD (1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Absorbing film version of Margaret Mitchell's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel about life in America's Deep South during the Civil War. Winner of ten Academy Awards.

75% from 10,703 members

A Day At The Races (1937)
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Director: Sam Wood
Certificate:
A vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse.

71% from 1,082 member
Not currently released

A Night at the Opera - Marx Brothers (1935)
Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Director: Sam Wood
Certificate:
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Groucho's comical business schemes bring Milan's finest opera stars to New York, with some unexpected stowaways on board

72% from 1,879 member
Not currently released

The Ginger Rogers Collection (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Erville Alderson
Director: Sam Wood, Albert Ray
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Best known for her dazzling performances with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers rose to become one of the leading ladies of Hollywood. This collection includes three films from her acclaimed career; In A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT (1933) a shrill scream disrupts the night, and a man plummets from a penthouse ..read more »

52% from 29 members

Sam Wood facts

5 most recent films

For Whom The Bell Tolls - 2.5 stars
The Pride of the Yankees - 3.0 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars
Kitty Foyle - 3.0 stars
Gone With The Wind - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Gone With The Wind - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Gone with the Wind - 4.0 stars
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - 3.5 stars
A Night at the Opera - Marx Brothers - 3.5 stars
A Day At The Races - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Ginger Rogers Collection - 2.5 stars
The Pride of the Yankees - 3.0 stars
Kitty Foyle - 3.0 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars
For Whom The Bell Tolls - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Leslie Howard - 3 times - show films
Groucho Marx - 3 times - show films
Ward - 3 times - show films
William Holden - 3 times - show films
Butterfly McQueen - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Cukor - 7 times - show films
Victor Fleming - 7 times - show films
Albert Ray - 1 times - show films

12 May 2010
Nowhere Boy
4 stars out of 5
07 May 2011
Taylor-Wood battling pneumonia
30 Jul 2011
Taylor-Wood pregnant
15 Dec 2011
Taylor-Wood awarded OBE medal
20 May 2009
Taylor-Wood 'dating Lennon actor'