Our Town
Summary:
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by Sam Wood featuring an evocative score by Aaron Copland and outstanding production design by William Cameron Menzies. Frank Craven is Mr. Morgan, the narrator and our guide through the small town of Grover's Corners in the more innocent American times of... Full Summary >>
Cast:
William Holden - (George Gibbs)
Martha Scott - (Emily Webb)
Fay Bainter - (Mrs. Gibbs)
Beulah Bondi - (Mrs. Webb)
Thomas Mitchell - (Dr. Gibbs)
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Review:
Although this film version of Thornton Wilder's classic (and, for its time, innovative) stage play tacks on a dreadful happy ending, the rest of the film is a faithful and moving adaptation of this American classic. Wisely dispensing with any attempt to "cinematize" the play's physical conceit (i.e., that it be performed with essentially no scen... Continue >>
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