Susan Hayward Double Feature: Smash-Up/Tulsa
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Actor: Smash Up, TulsaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 194 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Vci Video
Movie Reviews of Susan Hayward Double Feature: Smash-Up/Tulsa
Movie Review: Good, not great, but Heyward fascinates in film duo
Summary: 4 Stars
SMASH-UP (1946) and TULSA (1949) give the DVD-viewer and potential Susan Heyward admirer a chance to see her strut her stuff before the wide acclaim she achieved with such movies as THE JANE FROHMAN STORY and I WANT TO LIVE in the 1950s.
SMASH-UP is arguably the better of the two movies because of its good-sized and precise cast, and because the topic it deals with, alcoholism, receives fairly sensitive treatment. Miss Heyward plays a former lounge singer bolted into the stratosphere socially and money-wise when her struggling composer husband finally hits pay dirt. But with the riches come inceased insecurity on Heyward's part, as her character descends from the "couple of drinks" drinker to real alcoholism and at one point loses custody of her baby.
This film makes an interesting compare/contrast with the prior year's "prestige film" success, LOST WEEKEND (1945). Of the two, LW treats its subject more graphically, and a bit more psychologically ("writer's block," we are told, but many critics have argued for homosexual guilt instead). Heyward's SMASH-UP deals with its subject under both old and new paradigms: the montage sequence of her dragging from one lounge to another in midtown Manhattan is well-done but the kind of already-cliched treatment so wittily sent up on TV's THE SIMPSONS. More convincing, or at least more in tune with our modern outlook, is the recognition that alcoholism is a disease, not a character defect as such.
Above all we have Heyward's trimphant and intense character making this well-cast and well-formed film her very own. Several years later TULSA gave her a real star vehicle: a rags to riches to rags saga of an Oklahoma cattle queen turned oil queen and at one point as environmentally unfriendly as the oil men she used to despise. An intense and bravura film in very strong color, but not as well cast nor played quite as well as SMASH-UP in my humble opinion.
Other than a newsreel and trailer there are no other bells-and-whistles on this film duo. The films are easy enough to watch but clearly did not receive the kind of digital restoration that comes almost automatically on so many films-to-DVD today. Still, good entertainment at a good price and I doubt that Heyward fans will have much to complain about.
Summary of Susan Hayward Double Feature: Smash-Up/Tulsa
Susan Hayward really gets to strut-her-stuff in this dramatic DVD double feature. In Smash-Up Hayward gives a truly dynamic performance (for which she received her first Oscar nomination) as Angie, a nightclub singer, whose slow descent into the nightmare of alcoholism tears her family and world apart. The second feature, Tulsa shows off Ms. Hayward in the role of a tempestuous wildcat driller during the early days of the Oklahoma oil boom. Robert Preston plays the man who eventually tames her when the two of them are brought together as a result of a property dispute. Bonus Features: Scene Selection| Original Theatrical Trailer on "Smash-Up"| "Newsreel Parade of 1949" Specs: DVD9; Dolby Digital Mono; 194 minutes; Color/B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1947, 1949; SRP - $4.99.Drama DVD Video
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