George Stevens on DVD: GUNGA DIN, I REMEMBER MAMA
On December 7, Warner Home Video releases for the first time on DVD four titles by (or about) Academy Award-winning director George Stevens:
Gunga Din (right, 1939), an adventure tale with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Fontaine
I Remember Mama (1948), an effective family drama with Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne delivering one of the best performances of her remarkable career
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (2004), directed by George Stevens, Jr.
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (1985), an entertaining and informative documentary also directed by Stevens Jr.
Other George Stevens titles already available on DVD are:
Giant (two-disc set), a 1956 oil epic for which Stevens won his second best director Oscar (the first came in 1951 for A [...]
by Andre Soares | September 30, 2004
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Tags: Cary Grant, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, DVDs, George Stevens, George Stevens Jr, George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey, Gunga Din, I Remember Mama, Irene Dunne, Joan Fontaine
Best Films – 1948
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman
FILM
Anna Karenina
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Julien Duvivier
Cry of the City
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Richard Murphy
Johnny Belinda
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent
Key Largo
d: John Huston; scr: Richard Brooks, John Huston
Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Oreste Biancoli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Gerardo Guerrieri, Cesare Zavattini
Letter from an Unknown Woman
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Howard Koch
Portrait of Jennie
d: William Dieterle; scr: Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, Leonard Berrovici
State of the Union
d: Frank Capra; scr: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly
The Winslow Boy
d: Anthony Asquith; scr: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald
Joan [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Foreign Affair, Adolfo Franci, Alec Guinness, Alessandro Cicognini, Allen Vincent, Anatole de Grunwald, Anatole Litvak, Angela Lansbury, Anna Karenina, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Veiller, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Films, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Cecil Parker, Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm, Cesare Zavattini, Charles Bickford, Charles Brackett, Charles Frend, Charles Lawton Jr., Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Cry of the City, Daniele Amfitheatrof, David Wechsler, Desmond Dickinson, DeWitt Bodeen, Edith Evanston, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Lanchester, Enzo Staiola, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Capra, Franz Planer, Fred Zinnemann, Fritz Lang, George Sidney, George Stevens, Gerardo Guerrieri, Gherardo Gherardi, Guy Morgan, H. C. Potter, Hamlet, Henri Alekan, Hope Emerson, Howard Koch, I Remember Mama, Irene Dunne, Irmgard von Cube, Ivan Jandl, Jane Wyman, Jean Anouilh, Jean Arthur, Jean Negulesco, Jennifer Jones, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, John Farrow, John Huston, John Ireland, Johnny Belinda, Jonathan Latimer, Joseph Cotten, Joseph H. August, Julien Duvivier, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Key Largo, Kiss the Blood off My Hands, Ladri di biciclette, Lamberto Maggiorani, Leonard Berrovici, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Fletcher, Marlene Dietrich, Max Ophüls, Melvin Frank, Melvyn Douglas, Michèle Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Myles Connolly, Norman Panama, Oliver Twist, Oreste Biancoli, Orson Welles, Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis, Portrait of Jennie, Quartet, Ralph Richardson, Red River, Richard Breen, Richard Brooks, Richard Leacock, Richard Murphy, Richard Schweizer, Rita Hayworth, Robert Ardrey, Robert Donat, Robert Planck, Robert Siodmak, Russell Metty, Scott of the Antarctic, Secret Beyond the Door, Silvia Richards, Sonia Dresdel, Sorry Wrong Number, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Cortez, State of the Union, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Terence Rattigan, The Bicycle Thief, The Big Clock, The Fallen Idol, The Kissing Bandit, The Lady from Shanghai, The Louisiana Story, The Search, The Snake Pit, The Three Musketeers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Winslow Boy, Thomas Gomez, Vittorio De Sica, Vivien Leigh, Walter Huston, William Dieterle
