Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century
by Howard Hawks

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Actor: Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Ralph Forbes, Roscoe Karns, Walter Connolly
Director: Howard Hawks
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Classic Screwball Comedy
Summary: 5 Stars

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TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934) is perhaps the greatest of all screwball comedies and is the film that established Carole Lombard as the "queen" of that genre. Howard Hawks directed the Charles MacArthur/Ben Hecht screenplay.

John Barrymore, in what may be his "grandest ham" performance, is an egomaniacal Broadway director who discovers shopgirl Lombard and builds her into a major star, as well as making her his mistress. Their relationship is a volatile one, thus three years later she leaves him to go to Hollywood and, shortly thereafter, he goes broke producing plays without her.

Sneaking out of Chicago on the Twentieth Century to New York, Barrymore discovers that Lombard is a fellow passenger. Now, if he can only sign her to a contact before they reach their destination, he can get the financing for his next production. The only problem is that she hates him...or does she?

Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns co-star.

? Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)

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Carole Lombard and John Barrymore star in this all-time classic screwball comedy based on the Charles MacArthur Ben Hecht Broadway hit and directed by Howard Hawks. It s the story of a maniacal Broadway director (Barrymore) who transforms shopgirl Carole Lombard from a talented amateur to a smashing Great White Way success adored by public and press.System Requirements:Running Time: 91 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?NR UPC:?043396106710 Manufacturer No:?10671

Screwball comedy was practically invented by this classic Howard Hawks picture, a breathless farce with not an ounce of sentimentality. John Barrymore, in magnificent form, plays egomaniacal Broadway producer Oscar Jaffe, who molds his latest prot?g?, Mildred Plotka, into elegant thee-a-tuh star Lily Garland (Carole Lombard). The last hour of the picture has Oscar and Lily, now on the outs, battling each other on the Chicago-to-New York train. These two marvelous creatures are quintessential Hawks characters, figures of pure style who can't exist without the adrenaline and spark so amply supplied by the Hecht-MacArthur script. Hawks's giddyup pacing anticipates Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, and his deployment of character actors (notably Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns, as Jaffe's long-suffering, oft-fired flunkies) is sublime. Barrymore and Lombard take it at full speed, grand and horrid and silly and probably meant for each other. --Robert Horton

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