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This is a film choice of my hubby’s. He has mentioned this film so many times in the past and finally I was able to get hold of it on DVD for him, that was several months ago and I had managed not to have to watch it until last night! The film stars James Stewart and is a comedy which was made in 1950 so therefore it is in black and white. I am not particularly a fan of black and white films but I thought I would sit and watch it to make hubby shut up!
The film is about a man called Elwood P Dowd, played by James Stewart, who has a best friend called Harvey. The problem is that Harvey is a 6 foot 3 inch white rabbit which only he can see! After the death of his mother his sister Veta and her daughter come to live with him. They cannot take much more of his madness with Harvey as so they make the decision to have him committed.
When Veta takes Elwood to the sanatorium they make a terrible mistake and Veta ends up getting locked up and Elwood is sent home! After a few minutes the doctors finally work out that they have locked up the wrong person and so they free Veta and set of in search of Elwood and Harvey.
Will they find Elwood and finally commit him or will he forever be free with his companion Harvey?
I have to say that I was not expecting very much from this film but as it turned out I was quite surprised by it. The story was good and kept moving at a nice pace through out. I thought that James Stewart played the part of Elwood extremely well and he sort of had the constant look of being drunk. He added humour to his character and I thought he did a great job of working with an invisible co-star! The other characters were also very good and I liked the role of the sister Veta, she added a lot of humour to the film and I liked her skitty ways and how she would easily forget what she was supposed to be doing!
As I said before, I am not a fan of black and white films as I do think they are boring but after watching this one I have to say that after the first 5 minutes of the film I seemed to forget that there was no colour and was so into the film. The film did not lack anything by being in black and white.
The music in the film was nothing special and none of the songs really stood out to me., They all did fit in very well with the film and in the places they were used but I did not recognise any of the songs or tunes as the film was made in 1950 so it was a bit before my time!
The DVD which we have does have some bonus material which includes:-
Special introduction by Film Star Jimmy Stewart with photographic montage Theatrical trailer Production Notes on the Making of the Film Cast and Filmmakers Biographies and Film highlights
I have not watched any of these as I feel the film was not fantastic enough to warrant a watch of these. If hubby does ever watch them then I will ask him his opinion and update this for you.
The film has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes which I fell was quite long enough as it kept moving at a good pace and I was not loosing interest at any point, I am glad that they did not drag the story out for any longer. The film certificate is a U which means that this film is suitable for all and I do agree with this as there is no violence or string language in the film.
The Actress Josephine Hull won an Academy Award in 1950 for the Best Supporting Role for her character in this film.
This DVD is available from Amazon for just under £4 and I do recommend this for a great fun family film if you can see past the lack of colour.
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20.10.2009 14:00
I love this film, it's so harmless and funny x
15.05.2009 14:30
Sounds worth a watch just to see the Sister . . . . ♥ jes ♥
01.04.2009 22:59
sounds a bit of an odd one!