Product Description: While husband tim is away during world war ii anne hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger colonel smollett to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter jane and the colonels grandson conduct. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 10/19/2004 Starring: Claudette Colbert Joseph Cotten Run time: 177 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com: A three-hour weepy extraordinaire, this 1944 offering from producer David O. Selznick (who also wrote the screenplay) was a tribute to all the families who stayed behind while their men went off to fight in World War II. Claudette Colbert is the mother of daughters Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple; first seen coming home after dropping her war-bound husband at the train, she becomes the model of courage and strength on the homefront. The plot has a Saturday Evening Post feel today, as it follows the family's day-to-day life and struggles, whether with a crotchety boarder (a delightfully starchy Monty Woolley) or oldest daughter Jones's doomed romance with departing serviceman Robert Walker. They don't make them like this anymore and it's too bad. Nominated for a fistful of Oscars, it took only one, for its shadow-drenched black-and-white cinematography. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Since You Went Away
A good movie that catches the ambiance of the WWII era. Colbert takes on managing a home and children on her own while husband is away defending the country. You get a feel for what women of the time experienced. The terrorists of the time had attacked our country and women needed to take care of the home, cildren, ... Read More
Rating: - It's Not the Best, But It Still Works for Me
David O. Selznick and director John Cromwell give epic treatment to this story of the war back on the home front. No one's really great in this one. Claudette Colbert and Shirley Temple hold their own and Monty Woolley is better than usual. However, you may cringe at Jennifer Jones's performance when she's usually so good. ... Read More
Rating: - Too Dated for Today
Okay, I love old B&W movies but this can't hold a candle to "Mrs. Miniver" (now there was a woman who knew how to cope) and "The Best Years of Our Lives." I found Colbert's character so annoying..her big hardship was that she couldn't afford her maid and she didn't know how to manage money, because obviously Hubby did all ... Read More
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