Anthony Adverse / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. present ; directed by Mervyn LeRoy ; screen play by Sheridan Gibney.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 11289306Language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Archive collectionPublisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2015]Description: 1 DVD video (approximately 140 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Anthony Adverse (Motion picture)
- Producers, Henry Blanke, Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner ; music, Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; director of photography, Tony Gaudio ; editor, Ralph Dawson.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not make a film running any less than 222 minutes. When Warner Bros. adapted the even longer Hervey Allen best-seller Anthony Adverse, the studio managed to pack everything--except the most censorable passages, which had made Allen's novel a best-seller in the first place--into 139 minutes. Surprisingly, the film version of Anthony Adverse moves rather smoothly, though it is nowhere near as involving (or as much fun) as Gone with the Wind. Fredric March stars as Anthony Adverse, the illegitimate offspring of Anita Louise, the wife of Spanish nobleman Claude Rains. When Adverse comes of age, he inherits the prosperous business run by his kindly foster father Edmund Gwenn, which he abandons for an aimless trip around the world after his heart is broken by childhood sweetheart Olivia De Havilland. Sinking deeper into the morass of alcohol and degeneracy in the West Indies, Adverse is regenerated when he is reunited with De Havilland, now the mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte. Suddenly enervated, Adverse battles the efforts of Claude Rains and Gwenn's duplicitous former assistant Gale Sondergaard to take over Gwenn's business. Along the way, he learns that Gwenn was actually his grandfather and that De Havilland has born him a son (Scotty Beckett). Instead of dying, as he does in the novel, Anthony Adverse takes his son to America to start life anew. Whew! Though no award winner itself, Anthony Adverse enabled Gale Sondergaard to win the first-ever "best supporting actress" Oscar. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD-R; full screen presentation (1.34:1, 4x3); Dolby Digital monaural.
Producers, Henry Blanke, Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner ; music, Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; director of photography, Tony Gaudio ; editor, Ralph Dawson.
Fredric March, Olivia De Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Louis Hayward, Gale Sondergaard, Steffi Duna, Akim Tamiroff, Ralph Morgan, Fritz Leiber.
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.
Rating: Not rated.
This expansive drama follows the plucky, indomitable adventures of the eponymous hero (Fredric March). Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis (Claude Rains), Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather (Edmund Gwenn), and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe (Olivia de Havilland). When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Special features: Vintage featurette The Making of a Great motion picture; Theatrical trailer.
This is a recorded DVD and may not play in all players or computers.
English audio.