Twentieth Century
Blu ray – Region B
Indicator
1934 / 1.33:1 / 91 min.
Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
Cinematography by Joseph August
Directed by Howard Hawks
All the world’s a stage and that includes the Twentieth Century, a deluxe passenger train transformed into an itinerant theater thanks to the first class talent in first class, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore. The story of a has-been director conniving to get back on Broadway with the help of a former protege, Howard Hawks’ 1934 comedy is glamorous slapstick—”screwball comedy” before it had a name.
Lombard plays Lily Garland, né Mildred Plotka, former lingerie model, and now a top of the heap movie star. Barrymore is the preening Oscar Jaffe, a director of actors and anyone else who dares cross his path—he was born in a trunk and most of his acquaintances wish that he’d stayed there. Shakespearean in his appetites and his distastes,...
Blu ray – Region B
Indicator
1934 / 1.33:1 / 91 min.
Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
Cinematography by Joseph August
Directed by Howard Hawks
All the world’s a stage and that includes the Twentieth Century, a deluxe passenger train transformed into an itinerant theater thanks to the first class talent in first class, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore. The story of a has-been director conniving to get back on Broadway with the help of a former protege, Howard Hawks’ 1934 comedy is glamorous slapstick—”screwball comedy” before it had a name.
Lombard plays Lily Garland, né Mildred Plotka, former lingerie model, and now a top of the heap movie star. Barrymore is the preening Oscar Jaffe, a director of actors and anyone else who dares cross his path—he was born in a trunk and most of his acquaintances wish that he’d stayed there. Shakespearean in his appetites and his distastes,...
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