Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790743325 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790743329 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 19, 2000 Running Time: 104 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1939 Sales Rank: 11154
Amazon.com essential video: Critic Pauline Kael called this shamelessly enjoyable, vintage Bette Davis weepie a "kitsch classic," and time hasn't diminished its ability to give the tear ducts a good flushing. Davis plays a swinging socialite, living the fast life of booze, smokes, and--with the help of Humphrey Bogart as her Irish stableman--raising thoroughbred horses. When a brain tumor starts giving her headaches and eroding her vision, she falls in love with her surgeon (George Brent), who grows more determined than ever to cure her. Davis gives one of her most vibrant performances, and her costars also include Ronald Reagan and Geraldine Fitzgerald. The film received Oscar nominations for best picture, best actress, and for Max Steiner's score. --Jim Emerson
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Rating: - all eyes on Davis
Dark Victory is Bette Davis's show. She makes the movie worth watching. Her performance is so mesmerizing that sometimes it even distracts the viewer from the actual character she's playing; you're busy ... Read More
Rating: - Moving
Wonderful, moving film. Not Bogie's best, but still decent. One of Davis' best performances.
Rating: - "I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!"
Based on a play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, DARK VICTORY provided Bette Davis with one of her last great performances of the 1930s, capping off a banner decade that had seen her win Academy ... Read More
Rating: - Reacquaint yourself with an old classic that feels anything but old
There's not much left to say about "Dark Victory", so I'll only add that the film's sentiment and tears come not only as a result of the tragedy we're seeing onscreen, but the frequent examples of characters reaching ... Read More
Rating: - Dark Victory
Based on Casey Robinson's stage drama, which starred Tallulah Bankhead, this Oscar-nominated weepie about a dying socialite trying to find happiness in the remaining months of her life scored with audiences in 1939. It's ... Read More
- all eyes on Davis
- Moving