OUR TOWN (1940) - Full Movie - Captioned
Вставка
- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a small New England town in the early 1900s. Tells of the drama and conflict in every family. Nominated for five Academy Awards in 1940. Public domain film originally released as a theatrical production.
The very heartof this movie is the incredible beauty of the background music by Aaron Copland. One of our greatest composers.
Simple, direct and elegant writing. So very many great lines in the play. I especially like the one where Emily asks her mom if anybody really appreciates life while they're living. Her mom responds "Poets, some."
To this I say "L'chaim!" (to life)
Thanks so very much for posting this.
"It goes so fast, we don't have time to look at each other" - the same is true today. What a strange thing life is.
Absolutely
I played Doc Gibbs in my high school production of Our Town 35 YEARS AGO! .... I didn't even know this movie existed until 5 minute ago .... AWESOME!
"Life here on earth is just too wonderful to realize." Break down and cry every tine I see this movie.
I just finished reading the book, I'm glad I found this!
I absolutely love the musical score in this play.
I remember watching this movie as a child w/ my mother ...took me a bit to remember the name..but thanks to you I found it! Really appreciate you posting this...last time I watched it was 10yrs old...much older now. ;)
needed this for my our town test. thanks
Thanks for uploading this! I needed to read this book for school. Now I can read the book and follow along with the movie!
Wonderful movie with lots of valuable insights.
You know, older stuff just has a good vibe to it. I could sit down and listen to this many times
facts thats why i love classicals
Thanks for meeting the book of Our Town as well as this movie in my life.
Fabulous film. LOVE old movies. Thanks for sharing :-)
Just did this play for school and i am so glad they kept it almost the same
Let us not forget the great, iconic score composed by Aaron Copland in his best "Americana" style. Jerome Moross, who went on to compose the legendary score for "The Big Country", orchestrated some of Copland's cues due to a time constraint.
My favorite film of all time. Complaints about the ending being changed are irrelevant.
It's a MOVIE!! I wouldn't love it so much if the ending were the same as the play.
Who is watching this in 2016??
Me! I've been watching it every time it's on for decades. It's part of my culture.
I am
Such a sweet movie, thanks for uploading
Past and Present
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups-
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet!
I remember, I remember
Where I was used to swing,
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That is so heavy now,
And summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow.
I remember, I remember
The fir frees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now ‘tis little joy
To know I’m farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.
Thomas Hood 1799 - 1845
Thank you! Reading this in Social Studies!
I like the music used within the movie better than the suite made of it. It's far, far better. :)
Harry Horner, the set designer, was the father of James Horner, the late composer.
Thanks for posting this movie. I am still trying to figure out what that "something eternal" inside all of us is. When all memory of earthly life is forgotten. What is left?
to live
Randomly found this because of Aaron copland
Classic play and film. My only complaint is the film ending was changed from the play...but still a fine film.
I may use this along with the version with Hal Holbrook and Paul Newman in an upcoming class.
We're doin this play at my school.
My thearte class is preforming this!
Great movie! :D
good movie. 8/10
Gotta have life to love life.
and to love life to live
I am playing in "Our Town" in December as Howie. If we record it, I'll post a link or put it as a response video to this one. I think we are doing very well and would love to see what fans of this play have to say. :D
Wonderful movie even with the totally inappropriate ending.
Nice music. Cop-out ending. What a shame.
The start could almost be a spoken version of Google Earth or Google maps
It is interesting to hear that Americans did speak proper English a some point, even if they do sound American in this film, they don't sound squeeky and brash talking through their nose the way it is done nowadays. Notice how T is pronounced T and not L. For instence, one of them says 'Data' and not 'Dala'.
creeps me out that the speaker introduces some one...then says how they die
Very well written play, you can't find good writing like that anymore. American literature has been destroyed. The only complaint I have is that it concentrates too much on the old biddies--old crowbait women are boring. Also, Emily dies at the end in the play, changing it for the movie is a sacrilege.
IDK WTF EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT- THIS IS A FUCKING AWFUL MOVIE! BORING AND BLAND ITS ONLY USE IS TO GET KIDS OUT OF READING THE SHITTY BOOK.
they should turn this into a musical- by gosh !!! ! this is just painfully, insanely, unimaginably just plain boring, I fell asleep wriit........
Religious propaganda USA style!
Who is watching this in 2016??