Twentieth Century [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	John Barrymore Carole Lombard Walter Connolly Roscoe Karns Ralph Forbes
	Video by:	Sony Pictures
	Sales Rank:	164858

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Actor(s):
John Barrymore
Carole Lombard
Walter Connolly
Roscoe Karns
Ralph Forbes

Creators:
Howard Hawks (Producer)
Harry Cohn (Producer)
Ben Hecht (Writer)
Charles Bruce Millholland (Writer)
Charles MacArthur (Writer)
Gene Fowler (Writer)
Preston Sturges (Writer)

Director(s):
Howard Hawks

Recording label: Sony Pictures
EAN: 9780800107758
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6302801141
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1998-06-02
Universal product code (UPC): 043396609457
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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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 protégé, 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

Running time: 91 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: German (Original Language)