| Product Summary | | Publisher: Warner | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00085391137009 | | Buy.com Sku: 204048772 | | Item#: V2GW2Q | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 1537 | | Category Keywords: Adventure Classic Love Story War | | Rating: NR |
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Features: DVD, 5 Pack
Long regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation, James Cagney can now be seen in all his glory in The Signature Collection. This five disc set includes the classic films The Bride Came C.O.D., Captains of the Clouds, The Fighting 69th, Torrid Zone, and The West Point Story.
"[Captains] ...Cagney's first Technicolor film...received Oscar nominations for Color Cinematography and Art Direction..." Classic Film Guide
"[Torrid] Snappy dialog enhances this melodrama, and it is especially sharp between the rival women." Sanderson Beck, Movie Mirrors
"[Fighting] A showcase for the wisecracking, swaggering antics of Cagney..." TV Guide
"[Bride] ...a broad farce that combines spontaneous gaiety and infectious humor...a hefty package of laugh entertainment..." Variety
Editor's Note
Five James Cagney films are gathered for this release. The collection includes THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D., CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS, THE FIGHTING 69TH, TORRD ZONE, and THE WEST POINT STORY. Please see individual titles for synopsis information.
| Features | [All] Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/10/2009 |
| Original Release Date: 1940 | | Catalog ID: 113700 | | UPC: 00085391137009 | | Number of Discs: 6 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1951) | | | Oscar, Ray Heindorf, [West] Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture | |
Nominee (1943) | | | Oscar, Ted Smith, Casey Roberts, [Captains] Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color | | | Oscar, Sol Polito, [Captains] Best Cinematography, Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 10 of 10
[Captains] Story splits into two sections - first half depicts the adventurous and rowdy experiences of a group of freelance bush flyers of northern Canada who pilot supplies to the settlers and prospectors along the lakes and rivers of the northland - and second portion outlines their adventures as members of the Royal Canadian Air Force training schools...Cast is of topnotch calibre throughout. James Cagney holds attention throughout as the nervy, adventurous and happy-go-lucky flying expert. It's a spotlight performance for Cagney in every foot of film...Screenplay [from a story by Arthur T. Horman and Roland Gillett] is a fine admixture of vigorous adventure with narrative insight of pilot training procedure across the border. Michael Curtiz directs with a positive straight-line objective of pointing up the sweeping drama.
FilmsGraded.com 9 of 10
[Torrid] Ben Hecht's newspaper-based comedy The Front Page was adapted into two feature films in 1940, His Girl Friday and Torrid Zone. The former is a comedy classic, but the more obscure Torrid Zone, set in a Central American banana republic, is also good...Sheridan's character seems to have been the prototype for Lauren Bacall's in To Have and Have Not (1944). Like Bacall, Sheridan's assets as a nightclub singer are mostly physical, but she acts with poise and confidence. She exchanges stinging one-liners and comebacks with Cagney and Vinson, making the dialogue the best part of the film. Cagney, ever the scrappy tough guy, is in his element...But while Torrid Zone does not rank as one of the best Warner Bros films from the 1940s, the dialogue nonetheless makes it a good vehicle for the talents of Cagney and Sheridan. - Brian Koller
Ozus' World Movie Reviews 8 of 10
[Fighting] A sentimental recruiting poster account of the famed First World War New York National Guard regiment of mostly Irish-Americans who bravely fought during the war with the Rainbow Division in the years 1917-1918 and were affectionately nicknamed "The Fighting 69th." It's a sugary old-fashioned patriotic melodrama that follows the war effort through the story of pious army priest Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) and how by never gave up on his charge offering his spiritual guidance to help a mixed up kid learn the meaning of patriotism...William Keighley ("The Adventures of Robin Hood") does a workmanlike job directing, while screenwriters Norman Reilly Raine, Fred Niblo Jr., and Dean Franklin turn in a serviceable script. In its favor the battle scenes are exciting and Cagney acquits himself with distinction in his gripping screaming with agony scene. - Dennis Schwartz
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