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Now, voyager / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros. First National picture ; screen play by Casey Robinson ; a Hal B. Wallis production ; directed by Irving Rapper.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3091DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1004.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436630
  • 1681436639
Uniform titles:
  • Now, voyager (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Prouty, Olive Higgins, 1882-1974. Now, voyager
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
disc one. [Feature film; special features] -- disc two. [Special features].
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Sok Polito ; film editor, Warren Low ; music, Max Steiner.
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder, Ilka Chase, Mary Wickes.Summary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip, but will she find fulfillment as well as independence?
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Northport Library DVD DRAMA Now, voy Available 33111009524485
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip, but will she find fulfillment as well as independence?

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); 4:3 presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.

English dialogue; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Title and credits from screen.

Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder, Ilka Chase, Mary Wickes.

Director of photography, Sok Polito ; film editor, Warren Low ; music, Max Steiner.

Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.

Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Rating: Not rated.

disc one. [Feature film; special features] -- disc two. [Special features].

Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip, but will she find fulfillment as well as independence?

Special features on disc one: new, restored 4K digital transfer; episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1971 featuring actor Bette Davis -- on disc two: interview with actor Paul Henreid from 1980; new selected-scene commentary on the film's score by scholar Jeff Smith; new interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme on the making of the film; new interview with costume historian Larry McQueen; two radio adaptations from 1943 and 1946 -- booklet: an essay by scholar Patricia White and a 1937 reflection on acting by Davis.

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