Against Her Will/Wounded Heart
by Delbert Mann
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Ariana Richards, Harry Morgan, Susan Blakely, Walter MatthauDirector: Delbert Mann
Brand: Genius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 186 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 80418
Studio: Rhi Entertainment
Product features:
- Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore: Second in the incident series, Harmon Cobb is touched by the story of a young woman wrongly committed to a mental institution and fights for her release. Wounded Heart: Tracy Lance returns to Texas from New York to fight for Wounded Heart, the family ranch, after her estranged father's death. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR
Movie Reviews of Against Her Will/Wounded Heart
Movie Review: Part 2 Of 3 period family dramas well worth purchase
Summary: 5 Stars
Stars Walter Matthau (aged lawyer Cobb) and Harry Morgan (Judge Bell) team up again for a second part originating from the early 1990s but taking place in a filmed 1947 version of Baltimore. An astonishing well filmed, well acted, well written, story that is so riveting and emotionally captivating that you will never touch the pause button. The story takes on the 1940s understandings of mental illness and institutions of that period. It's not a light subject but it is professionally produced drama that could almost serve as a documentary of misunderstandings of the times.
Matthau and Morgan have become a team, first doing "The Incident" (read my recent 5-star review). The are as perfect together as the odd couple, the Marx's Brothers, or Dorothy & Toto. They seem to naturally fit together. The chemistry works for the first WWII, 1944, POW camp murder story, as it does in this wrongful confinement situation. Both are SO MUCH MORE than crime, courtroom, and police drama. They are emotional family situational drama. The complexity of plot vs characters reminds me of Harry Morgan's days in MASH. Oh, if we only had as many Matthau/Morgan period dramas as we have MASH episodes with Col. Potter.
Matthau is apparently supposed to be the main star, but the duo is so closely related in the story that Leading Actor requires both their names. Susan Blakely returns as Billie and is equally responsible for the high standard of work shown in this series.
Why this trilogy has not been put into a single set astounds me. I bought all 3. I award 5 stars for all 3 dramas. The third, "Incident in a Small Town" takes place in Cook Co., IL, in 1953. Check out my review of that also--under the 5 star group. Get them all. Watch them in order and enjoy some really well presented American 1940-50s period legal drama. Your senses will be touched as well as your emotions.
Summary of Against Her Will/Wounded Heart
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore: Second in the incident series, Harmon Cobb is touched by the story of a young woman wrongly committed to a mental institution and fights for her release. Wounded Heart: Tracy Lance returns to Texas from New York to fight for Wounded Heart, the family ranch, after her estranged father's death.Similar DVD Movies
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