Winterset (1936)
1936 · Feature film · 77 min · dir. Alfred Santell
- Romance
- Crime
- Drama
Synopsis
Winterset is a 1936 American crime film directed by Alfred Santell, based on the 1935 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson, in a loose dramatization of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and execution in 1928. The script retains elements of the blank verse poetic meter on which Anderson based his 1935 Winterset Broadway theater production.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Alfred Santell
- Writer
- Maxwell Anderson
- Cinematography
- J. Peverell Marley
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Released
- 1936-12-03
- Running time
- 77 minutes
Cast & crew
Alfred Santell Director
Burgess Meredith
Margo
Eduardo Ciannelli
Maurice Moscovitch
John Carradine
Edward Ellis
Paul Guilfoyle
Stanley Ridges
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · WINTERSET · TaraMoriah · 2009-02-19
Margo from The Lost horizon co-stars with Burgess Meridith who is known as the trainer from the Rocky films in this noirish tale of family vengence.I loved it. I saw it on a PBS channel one snowy Sunday evening as a child. I finally was able to buy it on dvd.If you love old movies please watch it.It is a compleatly forgotten gem.
★★★★★ · great movie · nigeldavahah · 2010-10-11
I liked this one !
★★★★ · Dated Yet Gripping · krishna kumar menon · 2011-02-21
This Maxwell Anderson play dates a bit but the subject is relevant even today. The present day Labor Unions nexus with big business in framing Union Leaders exists even today at least in Developing countries. The dialogues are a little too stagy. Obviously the director preferred to maintain the original stage dialogues. The film as such resembles a play more than a movie. But worth watching and can be remade with a little mordernisation.
★★★★ · Excellent score · inselpeter · 2009-07-15
Worth the watch for the listen alone. Moralistic in a way not possible after its epoch; the script is stilted after that manner. The insertion of the love interest is unfortunate. Wonderful sets, fine acting.
