Imserba Webstore - Night Must Fall (1937) [VHS]

	List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $39.95 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: MGM (Warner) Starring: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Merle Tottenham Directed By: Richard Thorpe
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304152447 Format: Black & White ISBN: 6304152442 Label: MGM (Warner) Manufacturer: MGM (Warner) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Warner) Release Date: 1996-09-10 Running Time: 105 Studio: MGM (Warner) Theatrical Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Night Must Fall~I'VE GOT THE JITTERZ!!! Comment: I SAW THIS MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED ON DVD. IT WON AN ACADEMY AWARD, FOR CRIPES SAKE! IT'S ON VHS BUT, I WILL HAVE TO GO BUY A NEW ONE, AS WE WATCH ONLY DVD, NOW. THE MOVIE IS INTRIGUING, ENTERTAINING AND SO MELODRAMATIC. ROBERT MONTGOMERY WAS SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH. AND DAME MAY WHITTY WAS A TREAT. THE ACTORS WERE ALL CHARACTERS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. THE WHOLE ENSEMBLE CAST WAS PURE PERFECTION IN TIMING. I WOULD WOULD WATCH IT MANY MORE TIMES. WONDERFUL FILM!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: All time great movie! Comment: I ordered the VHS by mistake. When, oh when, will Night Must Fall be released to DVD? I know that many people are asking the same question. This is one of my all time favorite movies. Never get tired of watching the movie on TCM (now that I no longer have a VCR.) Customer Rating: Summary: Suspenseful, wonderful performances, psychological character study Comment: Watched this on a cable station, and I was very impressed. If I had more hands, I would give this film 10 thumbs up. I kept checking to see who the director was, because this seemed like a Hitchcock movie, in it's suspenseful elements, disturbed and disturbing characters and interactions. Another Hitchcock element is the use of working class characters to produce humorous, insightful commentary on the goings-on in the film. Here the humour comes from two maids who comment on the goings on in the house. The Rosalind Russell character seems to step out of the film noir era. She is not the normal heroine of the murder mysteries of that time. She finds herself drawn to a psychopath who has wormed his way into the employ of her mean spirited aunt. There is some sexual attraction on her part, which is touched on, but in a very subtle manner. I am sure if they remade this film today, it would emphasize the sexual nature of her attraction to this killer, which would reduce this important element of the film to pandering to pruient interests. Instead, the film just hints at it, and it isn't till the middle half of the film that you realize what is happening. This is the advantage that earlier films have over modern ones. Bizarre desires, thoughts, and actions are merely hinted at. In modern films, through imagery, actions, and music, they tend to promote the most disturbing images they can come up with to show a character's or a civilization's moral rot; and this is considered avant garde and edgy. I say it's laziness. It's a lot harder to show a disturbed character by using innuendo and subtlety than it it is to spash it all over the screen so that the filmaker is sure you get the point. A great example of using subtlety to show disturbed characters is in the film "The Innocents." Nothing is ever shown or even explained very clearly, yet you know that something dreadful has happened to the children in the film. Customer Rating: Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST!!! BUT I NEED IT ON DVD! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? Comment: I was not a big Robert Montgomery fan in spite of my love for old movies - UNTIL I saw this film on Turner Classic Movies about 3 years ago. After seeing him in tux and tails being an idle rich socialite in a dozen movies, Mr. Montgomery really showed his range of talent here. He was rewarded with an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for this role. With his charisma and bad-boy good looks, he makes Ted Bundy look like Winnie The Pooh! His hip-hop swagger and confidence made it irresistible for Rosalind Russell to want a bit of "thug love" in her previously uneventful existence. Montgomery's "Danny" showed up that you can never let your guard down because even the nicest next door neighbor can be a homicidal maniac. Dame May Whitty got caught up because she was a despicable old lady who thought she was pimping everyone with her invalid act. But, in this case, game recognized game and she got taken in worse than Russell and the two housekeepers. With no blood and gore (although it is hinted at it with the hat case that Danny carried around as a "trophy" like most such killers), this was one of the most psychologically scary flicks that I've ever seen. And I have never missed one showing on TCM since 2005. It's always on the bill when the show honors Montgomery, Russell, or Whitty. I put this film at the top of my all-time favorites but I refuse to buy it on VHS. It deserves a DVD digitally restored "Special Edition" and I would buy it at any price to add to my DVD collection of old classics. I could just get it on VHS and convert it to DVD but you lose so much definition like that. I just hope, when it does make it to DVD, the film company doesn't screw it up by "colorizing" it. It is simple the best just as it is. Kudos to all of the great actors in it! Customer Rating: Summary: PLEASE RELEASE A DVD OF THIS MOVIE NOW !!!!!!!! Comment: This movie is excellent!!! Like many of the other reviewers, I want to see this on DVD and while they're at it, go ahead and release "Kind Lady"(1951) and "The Picture of Dorian Gray"(1945) on DVD as well. Why do these films continue to be overlooked by the studios as obvious candidates for immediate DVD release??? Given the quality of the majority of DVD releases over the last few years, one might think that the major studios were at a loss as to where to find quality material to release. Well, these films - and others like them - have been long overdue for DVD!!! A word of advice to the studios; Stop twiddling your thumbs and release these films!!! -Thank you