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List Price: $14.94
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy
Directed By: Edward Zwick
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BRODERICK,MATTHEW
EAN: 9780800177966
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0800177967
Label: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1998-01-20
Running Time: 122
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1989-12-15
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Summary: GLORY,ABOVE THE REST.
Comment: With no doubt the best Civil War picture ever made ,so far. The story of Robert Gould Shaw and his colored regiment,the 54th Massachusetts.Lincoln credited the black soldiers for turning the tide of the war for the Union victory.Glory is probably the most realistic of the Civil War films,Gettysburg is a good picture,but it seems like all the actor's are wearing fake beards,also, there is a blank spot to the whereabouts of Jeb Stuart in the film.Gods and Generals,a flat out boring film and I was disappointed in Robert Duvalls role as Lee,not so much the acting,but the lack of,strictly a cameo role for Duvall.Glory is a classic movie overall not only for history but a milestone in the entire motion picture industry,I think I've seen this movie at least thirty five times,with superb acting.spectacular cinematography,accurate story and screenplay,wish there were a few more battle scenes,the grand finale made up for it leaving the viewer stunned.Denzel Washington won the oscar for best supporting actor,but I think Morgan Freeman was also in the running,excellent acting all around.(a classic war movie.)Col. Shaw says,Forbes! if you dont believe in what we're doing here,maybe you should'nt be a part of it.
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Summary: One of the best movies ever made.
Comment: There is also an educational version of the film that is edited only somewhat. My students, 6th graders, really enjoyed watching this film and it provided us with some great dialogue in class once it was done. I highly recommend seeing this film if you have not already.
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Summary: Widescreen?
Comment: "Glory" is one of my favorite films and I expected great things from this "Special Edition." It still is a great film and one of the best ever about the Civil War and the introduction of Black troups into that contflict. What I really wanted to see was the black bars at the botton and top of the screen; the true widescreen version. But buyers beware. This is a glorified full screen version (know your screen ratios, folks) and I got burned. Is there a true widescreen version of this film? It deserves a better transfer than this.
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Summary: A Giant among films
Comment: Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington share the spotlight in a great film. Full of heroes and villains, glory and tragedy, it is alternately violent (realistically - in terms of bloodshed) and tender, brutal and compassionate, emotionally charged and peaceful. I have never seen a film that shows the maturation of so many excellent characters amid so many struggles and battles - physical, emotional, civil, personal, all the great elements of film are there. I only wish they had shown a little more of the enemy (the South). The confederates are left out of it. Broderick's character, Robert Gould Shaw, starts out as a miraculously lucky tenderfoot, wrestles with his commitment to the war and to justice on social, civil, and human levels (that's what is so great about this film, the complexity and tightness of the plot). The development of Shaw's regiment, the 54th, is what occupies the film and emerges as its triumphant glory.
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Summary: Close, But No Cigar
Comment: I saw this film twice when it first came out. I have a hard time understanding why the producers don't realize that truth is much more interesting than fiction. Numerous factual problems exist with the film although the teaching points are excellent in many regards. Why the final assault on Battery Wagner is filmed being conducted in the completely wrong direction begs for an explanation. The burning of the town of Darien provides an excellent study in war crimes that I use in lectures today. Good film that could have been much, much better with little effort. It is good entertainment but needs to be augmented with written accounts to learn the actual history.
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Story of the first Black regiment to fight in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD
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