The Glass Menagerie (1973)

7.2	Listal rating
7.4	IMDB rating

Directed by

Starring

Amanda Wingfield

Tom Wingfield

Laura Wingfield

Jim O'Connor

Written by

Stewart Stern

screenplay

Tennessee Williams

play

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The Glass Menagerie

2 years, 4 months ago at Dec 26 1:53

JxSxPx

While given a full cinematic life, ok, as fully cinematic as a 70s-era TV-movie can get, there's something about this version of Tennessee Williams' seminal play that just hasn't translated properly. While much of the cast performs ably there have been too many alterations and removals from the text to give the proper flavor and musculature to the story. Without Tom's opening monologue telling us ... read more

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Description: After what producer David Susskind called "the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealing with stars," four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbearing matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' poignant 1945 memory play, which retea ... (more)

Release date : 16 December 1973
UPC: 014381147520

Drama (1), Adaptation (1), Tv Movie (1), 1973 (1)

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The Glass Menagerie

“While given a full cinematic life, ok, as fully cinematic as a 70s-era TV-movie can get, there's something about this version of Tennessee Williams' seminal play that just hasn't translated properly. While much of the cast performs ably there have been too many alterations and removals from the text to give the proper flavor and musculature to the story. Without Tom's opening monologue telling us that everything we are about to view has been clouded by memory and emotion, that everything we are viewing is the truth but is being present as illusion, The Glass Menagerie loses some of the spark and fire that make it so richly alive. That omission of the opening monologue also causes us to lose the simple fact that this entire story takes place during the Depression, a social context that help” read more