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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0027616075369 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: MGMDM107538D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 22, 2007 Running Time: 83 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: March 08, 1935 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 84 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.com: One of the lesser-known satisfactions in Gary Cooper's career is this 1935 King Vidor film, an offbeat blend of romance, comedy, and tragedy. It begins in screwball territory: Cooper plays a novelist whose partying ways have stalled his career and made his new manuscript unpublishable. He and wife Helen Vinson like the high life (any resemblance to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is probably intentional), and she doesn't stick around while he tries to write a new book in a quiet Connecticut country house. The isolation puts him into proximity with a heartfelt young immigrant girl (Anna Sten), whose Polish community provides a subject for his new book. If you think Cooper was a merely the High Noon guy, a lanky Western hero, this is one of the movies (among many) that dispel the idea: his utter naturalness is a gold standard for a certain kind of movie-star acting. Directing him on the set the first day, Vidor worried about the star's mumbling and forgetfulness with dialogue. "Imagine my amazement," Vidor later wrote, "when I watched our first day's work on the screen and observed and heard a performance that overflowed with charm and personality." Anna Sten was another issue: the Russian actress had been brought to the U.S. with great fanfare by producer Samuel Goldwyn, because he wanted to have his own foreign Garbo/Dietrich under contract. Her cool presence failed to generate audience interest, and Goldwyn gave up on her after The Wedding Night. She's a problem, but Cooper keeps it going, and the movie itself is unexpectedly warm. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Gary Cooper does it againThe Wedding Night Another great movie from the legendary actor Gary Cooper, can this guy make a bad movie? A really pleasant way to pass the afternoon or evening. Rating: - What a giftI got this for my niece for her wedding shower. She loves old movies and I thought what a perfect gift for her for her wedding shower gift. She really got a kick out of my sense of humor it being so creative in part of my gift to her and her new husband. Rating: - touching, bittersweet romantic dramaGary Cooper delivers one of his most gentle, understated performances in THE WEDDING NIGHT (directed in 1935 by King Vidor, and based on a story by Edwin H. Knopf). He's perfectly paired with Anna Sten, the lovely Russian actress who never quite fulfilled her potential in Hollywood. Struggling New York writer Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) moves back to his family home in Connecticut. There, he becomes friends with a group of Polish emigrees, in particular Manya (Anna Sten). Quite soon, ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent performances!A surprising performance by all. This Movie ages well unlike a lot of other films of this era. Rating: - ANNA STEN - A REVELATIONI concur with what has already been said about this tender 'sleeper', and can only add that Anna Sten has a few moments that remain breathtakingly fresh more than 75 yrs later. Cooper is of course his wonderful self. Helen Vinson is much too one-note, in a thankless role. It is Sten who really knocks your socks off - and Vidor's direction, too, is splendid. |
