Sweet Bird of Youth
A womanizing drifter returns to his Florida hometown with an aging movie actress.
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Sweet Bird of Youth (Blu-ray)
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 9, 2017
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley & Rip Torn | |
| Performer: | Philip Abbott, Mildred Dunnock, Madeleine Sherwood & Corey Allen | |
| Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
| Edited by | Henry Berman | |
| Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
| Original story by | Tennessee Williams | |
| Composition by | Robert Armbruster | |
| Art Direction by | George W. Davis & Urie McCleary | |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
| Director of Photography: | Milton R. Krasner |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/4 --
There is no clearer face for the conflict and despondency of the decade of the sixties than Newman's magnificent bastards.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 5/5 --
Strong cast (Newman, Page) in deeply dramatic Williams drama.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The film gets a little bogged down in minutiae and irrelevant side plots, but on the whole it's solid and searing.
Filmcritic.com
Offers little indication of what made the original play interesting (especially in Elia Kazan's stage production), despite the fact that Paul Newman and Geraldine Page are called on to reprise their original roles.
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Chicago Reader
Brooks' direction seems a little too stolid for all the sleazy, flaming passions. These are, however, given full measure by an excellent cast.
Time Out
Page and Newman are fantastic.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
When approaching 1962's Sweet Bird of Youth, go for the parts rather than the whole.... [T]he film is a long drive through swampy melodrama.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Handsome Chance Wayne never found the Hollywood stardom he craved, but he's always been a star with the ladies. Now, back in his sleepy, sweaty Gulf Coast hometown, he's involved with two of them: a washed-up, drug-and-vodka-addled movie queen and the girl he left behind...and in trouble.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 43,310
- UPC: 888574489328
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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