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| Twentieth Century | 
 enlarge | Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Ralph Forbes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 10657
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Japanese (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 91
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD10671D
ISBN: 1404977732
UPC: 043396106710
EAN: 9781404977730
ASIN: B00070HK3S
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 1934
Release Date: February 22, 2005
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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 protege, 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
Product Description
Oscar jaffe is a sucessful broadway director lily garland one of his stars. But when she leaves his direction his sucess is gone. When he recognices abord the twentieth century that she is on the same train he tries to get her back for a new show. But this isnt that simole as hes thought. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: John Barrymore Carole Lombard Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Fantastic film looks like a VHS transfer to DVD January 1, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
On top of that there are no extras. The film itself is quite good, being one of the first screwball comedies. Popular later in the 30's because the manic pace of the comedy could make up for the lack of realism due to the imposition of the production code in mid-1934, this film is one of the rare screwball comedies made before the code began to be enforced. John Barrymore shows that besides being a great serious actor he was terrific at physical comedy as well. He even manages to comically jab at some of his own serious performances, such as when Carole Lombard calls him "Svengali", a part which he played in an earlier Warner Brothers film. Carole Lombard hasn't quite reached the peak of her powers yet though, and she comes off as overacting. I just can't figure where some of her screaming is coming from and what or who exactly it is supposed to be directed at.
There is some great comic support in the person of Walter Connally whom Barrymore's Oscar Jaffe is constantly firing and rehiring. The best light touch is in the person of fellow passenger on the "Twentieth Century", Matthew Clark. He goes around the train putting up signs that say "Repent the end is at hand" and also likes writing large checks for which he has no cash reserves. He ends up figuring into the final plot twist in a big way.
One odd thing that has come up in other films from the 30's that also comes up in this one is that apparently people could be arrested and jailed for bad debts. At the height of the depression, credit was very hard to come by and you would basically have to lie to get into debt and be unable to repay, thus the criminal offense. Very different from today's situation.
At any rate, I own this one and after seeing the much clearer presentation on TCM several times, I feel somewhat taken by my purchase. Apparently the good people at TCM could be bothered to present a much clearer transfer than the film's rightful owner, Sony, ended up selling to the public. That is a shame.
Classic Screwball Comedy October 25, 2008
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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
The Art of Great Over Acting! July 19, 2008
This is the great screwball comedy based on the stage play of the same name. It is said that the screwball comedy was basically invented by this film. It was filmed in 1934, about the same time as It Happened One Night. John Barrymore is the playwright, producer and director of plays who discovers a lingerie model played by Carole Lombard and puts her in his newest play. She can't act and everyone tells him to get rid of her but he bullies her into a great actress. She becomes a star and is seduced by him. He dominates her every step and they make 3 plays together in 3 years. She finally seizes an opportunity to run away with another man and escape. Finally, the meet on the train, the Twentieth Century and a show down begins. Will she come back or won't she? The overacting, over dramatizing brings the two together yet throws them apart each time. What shall they do? This is a great comedy and anyone who loves acting, drama and comedy will love this picture. Love is a Farce.
"Out! I close the iron door." February 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Howard Hawks filmed this elegantly madcap look at actor's egos. John Barrymore, with some help from Carole Lombard, stayed upright long enough to give one more great performance on film. He's a producer with an ego bigger than the Great White Way and she's a lingere model he molds into the toast of Broadway.
Once she becomes a huge star, however, she wants to live it up rather than sit around and discuss his genius. His hilariously insane jealousy drives her to Hollywood where she becomes the biggest thing in pictures. Meanwhile, he has flop after flop but retains his volatile temperment and ego. Broke and running from creditors, he and his put upon backer Webb (Walter Connolly) take the 20th Century Limited and who should be on the train but Lily Garland (Lombard).
But she now has an ego nearly as big as his and is nearly as big a ham! The script from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur shines as they thrust and parry towards the inevitable. While the film does suffer just a bit from lack of a likable and normal lead character usually found in most screwball comedies, it still survives as a terrific example of the genre.
Barrymore has one last hurrah and Lombard isn't just in fabulous form, but her fabulous form is shown to breathtaking advantage as Hawks has her constantly adorned in satin evening dress or lingere. A bit detached but certainly a must see for Lombard fans.
 "The sorrows of life are the joys of art." May 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"She's marvelous, just as I thought. Fire, passion, everything," John Barrymore's maniacal producer character dramatically declares, speaking of Lily Garland (the woman played by Carole Lombard). "The gold is all there, but we must mine it." And mine it he does. That's the plot of this film---transforming "a shop girl from a talented amateur to a smashing Great White Way success adored by the public and press"---which is based on a play; and it very much feels like a play, with John Barrymore's bellowing theatrical voice seemingly reaching for imaginary balconies. One might be inclined to call Barrymore's portrayal herein over-acting; in which case, if you're so inlined toward this view, you'll rather dislike this film. But if you're a John Barrymore fan; or if you're one who relishes screwball antics (perhaps with a helping of the theatrics of a Norma Desmond playing beyond the camera) then you ought delight in this film.
"Twentieth Century" (the name of a train---which Barrymore's character utilizes to return to New York after having been run out of town in Chicago) is all Lombard and the aforementioned dramatic lead, with delicious sidekick foils played by Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns; one of which Barrymore's Jaffe character fires three times over the proceedings herein (the first time in this manner: "I've had enough of your treachery. Get out! From now on, I close the iron door on you"). If you liked the back and forth romantic antagonism of "Bringing Up Baby," "The Awful Truth, and/or "Moonlighting," and found the performance of Walter Matthau in "The Sunshine Boys" to be rich, and eccentrically entertaining, then this film might be your cup of tea. Cheers
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