The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3 (The Old Maid / All This, And Heaven Too / The Great Lie / In This Our Life / Watch on the Rhine / Deception)
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Actor: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, George Brent, Mary Astor, Miriam HopkinsBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 666 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3 (The Old Maid / All This, And Heaven Too / The Great Lie / In This Our Life / Watch on the Rhine / Deception)
Movie Review: Superb Collection at a Great Price!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
To buy each of these films separately would cost on the average about $20.00 apiece. This boxed set is a bargain at this price. I ordered mine from Amazon and got it the next day (without having to pay fast shipping charges)!
As for the movies themselves they are all superb! Bette Davis at her finest. Great entertainment. I can't add much to the description of what the films themselves contain as some other fine reviews here have already elaborated on quite nicely.
The only nit-picky thing I have to add is this: On the cover art for the DVDs of "Watch on the Rhine" and "Deception" the Davis images are wrong. On "Watch on the Rhine" cover it is clearly a still of Bette Davis from "Now Voyager"; and on the cover for "Deception" the image of Bette is from "A Stolen Life" with the short dutch bob hairstyle. Anyone who has seen "Deception" knows Bette had luxurious long hair in this film. But these are such picayune details that hardly matter.
What matters are the films themselves. My favorite Davis film of all time is here, "All This and Heaven Too". This is often an overlooked Davis film, mostly because the histrionics that Bette had patented by this time are kept to a minimum due to the sympathetic nature of her character. It is film-making at its very finest based on the true story of a governess and her implication in the murder of her mistress by her husband the Duc De Pralin played outstandingly by Charles Boyer. Anyone who cannot love Davis in this film has no heart.
THe next gem is "The Old Maid". Davis really tears your heart out in this one and the music score is superb!! To have her real-life nemesis, Miriam Hopkins with her is a plus and to watch them emote together each trying to outdo the other is fun to watch.
"In This Our Life" is Davis at her over-acting hammiest. The film is fun to watch and probably contains the most evil performance Bette ever turned out on celluloid. One of my favorites.
"Deception" reunites her with her "Now Voyager" co-stars Paul Henried and Claude Rains who manages to steal the picture. The music here is an added bonus and film is another of Davis' underrated gems.
"The Great Lie" is pure soap but is entertaining nonetheless. Again the picture is stolen by Mary Astor who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar of 1941 for her role in this.
"Watch on the Rhine" has Bette taking a secondary role to Paul Lukas (The 1943 Best Actor Oscar winner)but the film is a tremendous testament to "fascism" and the evils of it explored thoroughly. It is tense and biting.
This is a collection that shows Bette's acting at its finest with high production values in an era when the "Woman's Picture" dominated the movies and shows why she was queen of the Warner Bros. lot!
This collection is worth getting....pure Gold. Now, how about a 4th Collection that would include:
Dangerous
The Sisters
Beyond the Forest
Juarez
A Stolen Life
A Catered Affair
Summary of The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3 (The Old Maid / All This, And Heaven Too / The Great Lie / In This Our Life / Watch on the Rhine / Deception)
IN THIS OUR LIFE Homewrecker Davis runs off with sister Olivia de Havilland?s hubby and that?s just for starters! THE OLD MAID Let the fireworks begin. Miriam Hopkins poses as the mother of the child Davis bore out of wedlock?the arrangement is beginning to fray. ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO Enchanted by governess Davis nobleman Charles Boyer murders his wife. But is la Bette as innocent as she appears? THE GREAT LIE Friends make the best enemies. Scheming concert pianist Mary Astor and selfless Davis are entangled in secrets and lies. DECEPTION Now Voyagers' Davis Claude Rains and Paul Henried reunite in a gloriously flamboyant tale of musicians indiscretion and murder. WATCH ON THE RHINE A leader of Germany?s anti-Hitler underground is hunted by Nazi agents in Washington DC. Dashiell Hammett adapts Lillian Hellman?s play.Running Time: 668 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSICS UPC: 085391187578 Manufacturer No: 118757Drama DVD Video
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