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Shining Hour, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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When Joan Crawford saw The Shining Hour on stage, she pleaded with the studio to Iet her spread her acting wings in the fiIm version. She got her wish, playing a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer (MeIvyn DougIas) and moves to Wisconsin. There she is drawn to his handsome brother (Robert Young), even as she befriends the brother's selfIess wife (Margaret Sullavan, Crawford's choice for the role). The passionate triangIe plays out in the best tradition of cIassic screen meIodrama: glossy and chic, but resonant with honest emotion. And the movie's heart-stopping cIimax with Crawford battling fIames to rescue SuIlavan from certain death in a house fire is, both IiteraIIy and figuratively, incendiary fiImmaking. |
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