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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569673069
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 10764
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1942
Editorial Review:
Description:
A pompous lecturer is forced to spend the winter inside a prominent Ohio family's home due to injury and proceeds to meddle with the lives of everyone in the household.
Amazon.com:
A legendary Broadway tour de force comes to the screen with Monty Woolley's central performance in The Man Who Came to Dinner. And it's a turn well worth immortalizing. All goatish beard, snapping teeth, and plummy-voiced put-downs, Woolley fully inhabits the role of Sheridan Whiteside, a celebrated author and radio celebrity who gets waylaid by a cracked hip during a visit to small-town Ohio. Bossing the helpless homeowners and bewildered staff from his wheelchair, he quickly fills his hosts' house with his projects (including four penguins) and famous visitors (Ann Sheridan as a self-centered diva, Jimmy Durante as a comedian based on Harpo Marx). Bette Davis goes for a quieter role than usual as Whiteside's assistant; she falls for a local newspaperman, drippily played by Richard Travis. They all revolve around the seated figure of Woolley, his hands drumming on his armrests, his teeth bared as though ready to devour his inferiors. He's delicious. The script is larded with topical references and Broadway-style repartee, not all of which has aged well, and director William Keighley doesn't have a clear grasp of how to shoot jokes. But the basic situation is so durable, and Whiteside's character (based on famed Algonquin Round Table wit Alexander Woollcott) so unusual and nasty, that the movie remains great fun. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - just a great movie !!!!!!!!!!!
The movie is a DELIGHT! Sophisticated ... funny ... fast paced and a fantastic cast lead by Monty Wooley! This movie is a CLASSIC ... the humor abounds and moves quickly!
Rating: - The Man Who Came To Dinner
This is an excellent film for the entire family. It is a fast acting film centered around an older gent visiting a family in Mahalia, Ohio over the Christmas holiday. It represents an era gone by where people enjoyed the holidays and took great pride in their homes and appearances. It is a nostalgic look of gone by days..where the actors talents were featured without any cursing or sex involved. Truly a great Chirstmas movie you will watch every year.
Rating: - A Misanthrope's Treat!
I first saw this movie when I was eight, and even at that age, I thought it was hilarious! Monty Woolley is perfect as the internationally acclaimed author, Sheridan Whiteside, who overstays his welcome at the Stanley family's house after falling and injuring himself on their front steps. It is comical to see how the Stanleys turn from Mr Whiteside's admiring fans to his resentful enemies. While staying with the Stanleys, Whiteside creates an unrelenting stream of chaos in everyone's lives he is ... Read More
Rating: - Laugh-a-lot.
My wife and I laughed a lot watching this film. Of course, we are old enough to have remembered all the stars and all the references. We enjoyed all the plot twists as well as the performances of each of the movie stars playing the characters in this wild story. The fact that it was in black and white did not bother us. It was a trip down memory lane, especially with Jimmy Durante's typical antics.
Rating: - The Man Who Came To Dinner
My husband & I love this movie & were thrilled to find it at an amazing price. Delivery was fast & the DVD was in perfect condition.
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