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| Our Town [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![Our Town [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z7R18XZ9L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Sam Wood
Actors: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell
Studio: Focus Film
Category: DVD
Buy Used: £34.35
New (1) from £52.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 129111
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Running Time: 90 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 683070869724
EAN: 0683070869724
ASIN: B0000D9PFA
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1940
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Our Town - another perspective December 22, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The core message of Thornton Wilders play, like many of his works, is housed in a metaphor - the small New England town, where life runs its course, for good or ill, as most lives do - without high drama or fantastic events. In the end when he delivers his message through Emily's final speech, it is this: to take life, in all of its smallest moments and to understand that these are what are most precious - and to not take any of it for granted. Wilder was a gentle but honest and straight forward playwright, and this may seem to be an old fashioned play, but the Copeland music is a beautiful and fitting accompaniment to Wilder's simple and heartfelt homage to what life is for - to be lived.
I suppose as someone who grew up in New England, I feel a certan affinity for this play,and must confess my bias. However, I think if you view it in the context I have explained, you may find this a really wonderful experience. If you can get a good copy with the music and dialogue clear, then it will be worth it. Otherwise, I suggest you get a copy of the more recent version of it.
 Quite corny March 13, 2004
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This will be an acquired taste for anybody without an American passport. This Hollywood adaption of Thornton Wilder's quaint and sentimental account of small-time life - adjoining gardens leading to young beaming love, weddings, sickness, drugstore rendezvous, drunken organ grinders - spares no effort to get its admittedly rather reactionary, ultimately extremely corny message across.
In the end, if it doesn't stick in your throat, you might actually enjoy parts of 'Our Town'. It makes no secret of the claustrophia for some people in small towns, and people do die untimely deaths. And some of the acting is wonderful, not least the very young William Holden in one of his first starring parts as the befuddled George, in love with the girl next door.
This copy of the film is not the one you want to get though, mind you. I'm not sure that there is an acceptable negative extant of 'Our Town', this one is certainly not nice to look at, and the sound is downright awful, making it very hard to make out the dialogue which in a dialogue-driven movie is quite a bummer.
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