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Our Town
1940
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 child of their own. A film .. Read more
| Starring | William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi |
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| Director | Sam Wood |
| Genres | Drama |
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Our Town
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 child of their own. A film emphasising the preciousness of time in peoples short lives. A marvellous cast includes William Holden, Frank Craven, Martha Scott and Thomas Mitchell.
| Starring | William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Faye Bainter |
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| Director | Sam Wood |
| Studio | BRIGHTSPARK PRODUCTIONS |
| Run time | LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 27 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1940 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 01 May 2009 To Rent: DVD: 08 Mar 2010 |
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One of the main points of the play, the absence of scenery, is abandoned in this screen version, and the graveyard scene has to be presented as a dream, but the film retains the narrator and manages to make points of its own while absorbing the endearing
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- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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Small town, big ideas
Although it doesn't come off, this is still a notable attempt to film an unfilmable play. The trick is to do it in a highly stylised way - off-putting for ... read more »
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- 15 May 2010 at 16:31
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Small town, big ideas
Although it doesn't come off, this is still a notable attempt to film an unfilmable play. The trick is to do it in a highly stylised way - off-putting for ... read more »
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Films often made after books, can destort, and ruin the book, but thsi certainly does not. The movie was helpfull as i am studying the book presently. Over ... read more »
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- 14 Feb 2007 at 23:19
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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 ...
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