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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218625892
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 77 minutes
Sales Rank: 52389
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 03, 1936
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Early gothic/noir sets the standard for future films.
Despite having read the liner notes, I thought from the publicity artwork that WINTERSET would be something gothic. It is gothic, in its bleakness, but is squarely centered in the Depression era of the United States. It was completely of it's time, and considering that the film was adapted from the Broadway play, it must have been daring, with sub themes of socialism and police corruption. (The play was by Maxwell Anderson, who wrote KEY LARGO and THE BAD SEED.) Perhaps that contributed to the ... Read More
Rating: - Winterset
Maxwell Anderson's WINTERSET was a popular and critically acclaimed stage play in 1935. In fact, it won the first New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. In 1936 it was made into a movie featuring the young stage actor who'd played the part on Broadway - and for whom Anderson wrote the part - Burgess Meredith. Internet sources have it that the movie was a box office dud. That the film was allowed to enter into the public domain and has been issued by Alpha/Gotham Distributing, a company that ... Read More
Rating:  - Tight melodrama of betrayal and revenge.
Maxwell Anderson's classic play is reduced to a 77 minute playing time but is one of the tightest, tensest films to come out of the early talkie period. Acting ranges from excellent to outstanding (Meredith recreates his stage role). Although the film earned Oscar noms for Art Direction and Score - deserved, it excels most in black and white cinematography and editing. An excellent little film and one of the best of the early talkie era - it bespeaks eloquently of what was yet to come in film ... Read More
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