Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BROLIN,JAMES
EAN: 9781417003891
Format: Dolby
ISBN: 1417003898
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: 025192501920
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-04-06
Running Time: 131
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1976

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-APR-2004
Media Type: DVD

Customer Rating:
Summary: Before Streisand there was Gable and Lombard!!
Comment: Interesting look at Gable and Lombard played by Brolin pre Barbra an Jill pre Unmarried Woman perhaps! Gotta Love these Chezzy Made for TV biographies great companion piece to The Jayne Mansfield Story, Bud and Lou, Bogie, Luci and Desi Before the Laughter, The Rosemary Clooney Story.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable flick
Comment: First half good, second half not so good. I think Brolin was terrific as Gable. I think he nailed the character. Clayburgh was good as well. As I said, it was quite enjoyable for an hour, then it just lost control of its story and its charm. Too bad. The actor who played L. B. Mayer was great. He had all the best lines.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Even Remotely the Bomb It's Reputation Suggests
Comment: The critical lambasting this film received on it's initial release in 1976 is inexplicable. Though certainly not a classic love story it is most definitely above average. The film's only failing that I can see are some slapstick moments that fall flat. Where it succeeds is in the scenes of intimacy between Gable and Lombard. James Brolin is more than adequate as Clark Gable and Jill Clayburgh is absolutely radiant as Carole Lombard. The chemistry between the two is palpable which makes the relationship believable. At times I lost sight of the fact that these were two of the most famous celebrities in America and that they were ordinary people in love. The film also contains a terrific turn by one of my favorite character actors, Allen Garfield, as Louis B. Mayer. Now if only they would release on DVD another Hollywood bio released in 1976, "W.C. Fields and Me", with Rod Steiger. Trivia note: Clayburgh hosted "Saturday Night Live" at the time of this film's release and took part in a parody of the film, "Grable and Lombard".

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable Movie But Could Have Been Better
Comment: This is a really enjoyable film to watch but it contains many inaccuracies. Lombard comes across as a foul mouthed, ill educated woman when she was the opposite. Lombard was very much a thinking woman who was a devout New Deal Democrat who earned the admiration for FDR and Eleanor. Duesenberg driving Gable (He owned 4!) although a gifted actor was never a Hollywood intellect like Lombard, Frederic March, Edward G. Robinson and other activist actors of the day. Many people hated James Brolin in this film but I think in 1976 he was the best choice. I did not like Clayburgh as Lombard. I am shocked that Hollywood has not made a real epic movie about the couple. This 1976 TV movie and a French Documentary seem the only information on this iconic couple of Hollywood's golden era. This may be due to the fact after Lombard's death Gable never spoke publicly about his late wife except one time in 1943 when he along with Lombard's brothers and Louis B. Mayer went to christen the Liberty Ship "Carole Lombard".

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Customer Rating:
Summary: this is the love story that was Gable and Lombard?
Comment: Total fiction, and that's too bad, as it was a story worthy of telling. Badly miscast, Lombard comes off as a shrill, foul-mouthed (while she had the vocabulary of a sailor, Gable once said "it was music coming from her.")shallow wench and Gable is portrayed as a dimwit. Neither is true - Lombard was a warm, caring, giving woman and Gable had more than a veneer of sophistication. The film invents situations, or warps real ones out of recognition, never touching on Gable's infidelities, which were so painful to Lombard - in fact, to draw a simple circle around a very complex issue, Lombard died because Gable couldn't keep his pants zipped, and the film doesn't touch on that at all. To its credit, it does try to capture the essence of their love story, but it didn't have to invent, distort, and mutilate "The Great Legend" of Hollywood love stories.

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