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SYNOPSIS: Bette Davis's bravura moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months , remains a three-hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn't pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory's story rights. Jack Warner finally did so... skeptically. "Who wants to see a dame go blind?" he asked.
Almost everyone: 'Dark Victory' was Davis's biggest box-office hit yet and garnered Academy Award nominations for 1939's Best Picture, Actress and Original Score (Max Steiner). "If it were an automobile," Newsweek
SYNOPSIS: Bette Davis's bravura moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months , remains a three-hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn't pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory's story rights. Jack Warner finally did so... skeptically. "Who wants to see a dame go blind?" he asked.
Almost everyone: 'Dark Victory' was Davis's biggest box-office hit yet and garnered Academy Award nominations for 1939's Best Picture, Actress and Original Score (Max Steiner). "If it were an automobile," Newsweek wrote, "Dark Victory would be a Rolls Royce." It's the perfect match of star and vehicle.
ABOUT THE DVD: This is a WARNER HOME VIDEO release for the UK market (Region 2 PAL format - which will play on all standard DVD players in the UK and the rest of Europe - buyer outside of Europe will need a multi-region player in order to view it) - The film is presented in its original BLACK & WHITE and FULL SCREEN format (1.33:1 aspect ratio) and runs for a total of 140 minutes - the AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language (there is also an Italian dubbed audio-track on the DVD) - SUBTITLES are in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic and Hungarian (there are also English and Italian hard-of-hearing subs) - SPECIAL FEATURES are an audio commentary by film historian James Ursini and CNN Film Critic Paul Clinton, a new featurette '1939: Tough Competition for Dark Victory' and the film's original theatrical trailer
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Manufacturer: Generic
EAN: 7321900566858
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