The Whales of August

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Summary: A MOVIE EVENT!
Review: A gorgeous movie to watch and own. What more can you say about a movie with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern and Vicent Price in it? A film that brings talent, beautiful scenery and a great story line together to make an "epic picture" and puts it into a 91 minute treasure.

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Summary: DVD offers best presentation in years
Review: As you can see from the earlier reviews, this movie is well-loved. This is the first time since its release in 1987 it can be seen in its original aspect ratio. This DVD also brings alive the colors of the Maine island where these actors gave their final film performances. The print does suffer from small imperfections but are not very noticable. Sound is an unenhanced stereo. The disc offers no extras other than chapter selection. It is too bad a little more effort was not put into a film that is significant to the filmographies of the stars. Overall, if you have seen this movie on cable and enjoyed the fine acting you will be impressed with the visual improvements this DVD brings.

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Summary: What performers!
Review: One doesn't watch this movie for it's fast pace and action. Nor for a story that is really anything more than touching at times. It is the performances that captivates you. Miss Gish, at 93, plays her part perfectly and at one point tears will flow when you watch her. Miss Davis, in her 80s and after a masectomy and a stroke, hasn't lost any of her spunk! Ann Southern, Vincent Price and Harry Carey Jnr. support so well.
Basically, it is a couple of old timers on holiday, just living life and remembering their youth.
Bring it out on DVD please!

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Summary: As good as they get!
Review: This movie, featuring Vincent Price and Betty Davis, finds them both in one of the best performances of either's careers. This gentle story, about the relationships between friends and family in the winter of life gets 5 out of 5 stars.

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Summary: Two of the Greatest
Review: Two of the greatest ladies to ever grace the American theatre present, as a final "gift" to their followers, this wonderful view of elderly sisters, one blind, as they spend their summer in their aunt's old home on the coast of Maine, watching the whales. They struggle with their mortality, their relationship with each other, and their understanding of life's final offerings. Superb performances, as usual, by Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Ann Southern, and the whole cast, many of whom we haven't seen in years.

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Summary: LEGENDS TO THE END
Review: Watching this film after several years was something of a bitterwsweet experience - it looks wonderful on DVD - it's beautifully photographed and has a subtle, haunting musical score. But its reason for being is as the final showcase for the acting of two screen legends to whom everyone in Hollywood today owes their careers - Lillian Gish, who invented screen acting during the silent era, and Bette Davis, who reinvented it after sound came in. "Life fools you," Davis says in the film, and she could have been referring to herself - it's hard to believe this is the Bette Davis of JEZEBEL and DARK VICTORY, of THE LITTLE FOXES, NOW VOYAGER, and ALL ABOUT EVE, even of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? Age, illness and, yes, life - had taken their toll on her. But, she has her moments here - oddly enough, her best are without dialog, such as when she brushes a lock of her dead husbands hair across her cheek, while Gish has the lovely "passion and truth" monologue. Ah well - they don't make 'em like these gals anymore!

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Summary: A "Whale" Of A Movie
Review: What a wonderful movie. I can't believe more people don't know about it. Has to be one of Bette Davis' finest proformances in her last years. Lillian Gish (spelling?) was 93 years old when she made this movie. A movie about sisters in the winter of their lives and how they live through their childhood, yet making every day on this earth count. I could, and have watched it over and over again. A beautiful story!!

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Summary: A Classic
Review: What a wonderful movie. I can't believe more people don't know about it. Has to be one of Bette Davis' finest proformances in her last years. Lillian Gish (spelling?) was 93 years old when she made this movie. A movie about sisters in the winter of their lives and how they live through their childhood, yet making every day on this earth count. I could, and have watched it over and over again. A beautiful story!!

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Summary: A "Whale" Of A Movie
Review: What a wonderful movie. I wish they would make it in a DVD. Five
talented veterans of the silver (and I do mean "silver") screen
all together in a beautiful story of golden ages and golden memories. Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern, Vincent Price
and Harry Carey Jr. are a joy to watch. I've watched this film
so many times I think I know all the lines, but I never tire of it. Five stars aren't enough to rate such stellar performances.

Rating:
Summary: A "Whale" Of A Movie
Review: What a wonderful movie. I wish they would make it in a DVD. Five
talented veterans of the silver (and I do mean "silver") screen
all together in a beautiful story of golden ages and golden memories. Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern, Vincent Price
and Harry Carey Jr. are a joy to watch. I've watched this film
so many times I think I know all the lines, but I never tire of it. Five stars aren't enough to rate such stellar performances.