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Dark Victory
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301965729
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301965728
Label: MGM (Warner)
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1939
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Editorial Review:
Critic Pauline Kael called this shamelessly enjoyable, vintage Bette Davis weepie a "kitsch classic," and time hasn't diminished its ability to give the tear ducts a good flushing. Davis plays a swinging socialite, living the fast life of booze, smokes, and--with the help of Humphrey Bogart as her Irish stableman--raising thoroughbred horses. When a brain tumor starts giving her headaches and eroding her vision, she falls in love with her surgeon (George Brent), who grows more determined than ever to cure her. Davis gives one of her most vibrant performances, and her costars also include Ronald Reagan and Geraldine Fitzgerald. The film received Oscar nominations for best picture, best actress, and for Max Steiner's score. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - all eyes on Davis
Dark Victory is Bette Davis's show. She makes the movie worth watching. Her performance is so mesmerizing that sometimes it even distracts the viewer from the actual character she's playing; you're busy watching all the nuances of her acting while forgetting about everything else.
Davis plays Judith Traherne, a carefree and vivacious young heiress. She lives on an estate with her best friend, Anne (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and employs a stable hand named Michael (Humphrey Bogart) to ... Read More
Rating:  - Moving
Wonderful, moving film. Not Bogie's best, but still decent. One of Davis' best performances.
Rating: - "I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!"
Based on a play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, DARK VICTORY provided Bette Davis with one of her last great performances of the 1930s, capping off a banner decade that had seen her win Academy Awards for "Dangerous" and "Jezebel".
In DARK VICTORY, Davis is millionaire heiress Judith Traherne, plagued with crippling headaches and eyesight problems that are later diagnosed as symptoms of an incurable brain cancer. Judy will eventually lose her vision altogether before ... Read More
Rating: - Reacquaint yourself with an old classic that feels anything but old
There's not much left to say about "Dark Victory", so I'll only add that the film's sentiment and tears come not only as a result of the tragedy we're seeing onscreen, but the frequent examples of characters reaching out to help each other, to give thanks to one another, and other expressions of humanity. I always liked that about this movie, that it chokes us up not just over the... well, darker things going on, but also because of how it very effectively shows us humanity at its best. Recently ... Read More
Rating: - Dark Victory
Based on Casey Robinson's stage drama, which starred Tallulah Bankhead, this Oscar-nominated weepie about a dying socialite trying to find happiness in the remaining months of her life scored with audiences in 1939. It's not hard to see why: the luminous Davis is superb, convincingly transforming herself from a bossy, devil-may-care horse breeder into a down-to-earth, spiritually humble human being. Humphrey Bogart does a sprightly turn as an Irish stable hand (yes, it's true), and watch for Ronald ... Read More
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