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Mark Twain Tonight
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780769718910
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769718914
Label: KULTUR VIDEO
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: KULTUR VIDEO
MPN: 1891
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: KULTUR VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 30, 1999
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1967
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Editorial Review:
Come meet Mark Twain. OK, true, the humorist has been dead for more years than we care to remember, and not many of us around today were alive to hear what he sounded like. But Hal Holbrook is so spectacular in his one-man performance that you could swear you were listening to Twain himself. The gravelly voice, the lined face, the slow shuffle, and cigar-induced throat clearings seem so natural that you'll have difficulty recognizing Holbrook beneath the white suit, the gray hair, and the handlebar mustache.
Mark Twain Tonight! began as a Broadway show in the 1960s and was filmed as a CBS special in 1967. Yet you'd never know it, because the humor, which is more than a century old, is still laugh-out-loud funny today. Twain--I mean, Holbrook--gives a monologue that is rambling, intelligent, and humorous as he culls together commentary from a variety of Twain sources. From dachshund hounds, politics, and patriotism to cigar smoking, memory loss, and religion, this 90-minute video leaps from subject to subject as we're entertained by material that's as fresh today as it was when it was written in the 1800s. --Jenny Brown
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Mark Twain Tonight.
Long before Spalding Gray brought one-man performance monologues into the mainstream, 40-year-old actor Hal Holbrook perfected this wonderful stage persona as an homage to the elderly author of "Huckleberry Finn" and many other treasures of American literature. His resemblance to Twain is uncanny, his diction impeccable, and the commentary--all folksy wisdom and homespun anecdotes about politics and religion, women, aging, cannibals, and more --came from his long-running Broadway show. This program ... Read More
Rating: - "Pure" Twain !!
If you love a good laugh and thought provoking ideas mixed together, then buy this DVD....It is "pure" Twain !! Also, Mr. Holbrook is great as Mark Twain...
Rating:  - Not his best material, but still a great performance...
Those of us old enough to have seen Holbrook do his one-man Twain show in the 1960's, and to have owned the original cast recordings "Mark Twain Tonight" and "Encore: More Mark Twain Tonight" know that this 1967 television version featured second-rate material. Yet second-rate Twain is still better than most comic/philosophical writing. (There was also an original cast recording of this show released.) Now there is a CD on Columbia Legacy called "Mark Twain Tonight" which combines some producer's idea ... Read More
Rating: - Hal Holbrook mesmerizes as Mark Twain
Much as Mark Twain had to do in his life, Hal Holbrook mesmerizes audiences with his portrayal of Mark Twain, the first stand-up comic this nation has ever known.
Hal Halbrook has performed his ever changing Mark Twain stage act before he became a household name in the movies. It took a made for TV special about Mark Twain by Hal Holbrook to rekindle this nation's curiosity about him.
A lot of the things Mark Twain commented on then are just as true today. If it weren't for his ... Read More
Rating: - He channels Mark Twain
Outstanding theatre perfectly translated to the small screen. I first heard Holbroook's Twain in the early 60s, and have re-visited it many many times with increasing pleasure. Don't miss this one if Tom and Huck intersected with your childhood. COme to think of it, don't miss this even if they didn't! A life altering experience!
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