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San Francisco
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569528826
Feature: Romantic drama combines with humor, starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award winning* extravanganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide)
Format: Full Screen, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 65288
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1936
Features:- Romantic drama combines with humor, starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award winning* extravanganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide)
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Editorial Review:Romantic drama combines with humor, starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award?-winning* extravanganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide). Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar? nominations,* Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.
"San Francisco, open your Golden Gate...." If the classic city anthem isn't part of your life already, it will be after a viewing of this 1936 hit, a wonderful blend of cornpone, spectacle, and song. It's set in 1906, the year the earthquake flattened much of Baghdad by the Bay. Like the disaster movies that followed (including In Old Chicago, a Fox cash-in from a couple of years later), San Francisco slowly establishes its characters before unleashing the destruction. Clark Gable is Blackie Norton, a cocky and ruthless Barbary Coast character whose heart is--well, not softened, but at least dented by the arrival of an opera singer (Jeanette MacDonald) looking for a job. He hires her for his rowdy club, while his childhood chum, Father Tim Mullin (Spencer Tracy), disapproves. As they would subsequently demonstrate in Test Pilot and Boom Town, Gable and Tracy have great he-man rapport together (Blackie's rampant maleness is challenged only by the fact that he knows the priest could punch him out). Director W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man) keeps everything cracking along, except for those moments when Cultcha rears its head and MacDonald sings an aria. When the quake hits, and the fire follows, the movie uncorks some really quite awesome special effects, including the unforgettable image of a street heaving up and separating under people's feet--much superior to the disaster effects in The Last Days of Pompeii, made just a year earlier. Needless to say, this could only be MGM in its heyday, laying on the big budget, an acceptable level of naughtiness, and a dose of religious turnaround in the end. It worked then; it still does. --Robert Horton
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GREAT MOVIE!!! GREAT ACTOR LEGEND MR.GABLE!!!!!! TRUE LEGEND!!!!!!! MY HUSBAND HOME TOWN SAN FRANCISCO, I LOVE IT TOO!!! ONE OF THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE WORLD!!!!!! VERY SMALL CITY BUT RICH IN MANY WAYS!!!!!! SO RICH IN DIFFRENT CULTURES!!! SOME GREAT THINGS IN SAN FRANCISCO, DON'T GET ME TALKING ABOUT THE AWESOME FOOD THERE! AWESOME! AWERSOME!!!AWESOME!! WE TRULY LEFT OUR HEARTS THERE, NO PUN INTENDED!!!!!!!! MAHAL KITA!!!!!!!!!! ALOHA!!!!!!!! SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!
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They made movies then, ! But then they had Quality actors {actresses} and good wriers !!!
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I can't help it!! This is one of my favorite movies. The actors, story, writing, and most especially for me, the music. Always the music. Too bad that the music credits were not listed in the end credits.
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This seller was very prompt. I would buy from them again. The movie was as I remembered it. A treasure from the past.
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Great movie - thank you. Could you please carry more of the Janet MacDonald movies in DVD.
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