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88% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 78% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Death (Fredric March) is unable to relate to humans, so he takes the form of Prince Sirki, and tries life as a person. Many women are...
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Fredric March plays Death as if he thought he might possibly...
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- The Production: 4/5
- EO: 3.5/5
- Audio: 5/5
- Special Features: 2/5
- Rall: 3.5/5
A striking amalgamation of genres – part comedy, part melodrama, part romance, part suspense – gives Mitchell Leisen’s Death Takes a Holiday a most unique cinematic identity. With so many philosophical and psychological issues crammed into an 80-minute running time, it’s little wonder that Death Takes a Holidayremains one of the most intriguing mov...
3D Rating: NA
The film’s original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.37:1 is faithfully rendered in this 1080p transfer using the AVC codec. The sparkling Paramount black and white look of the 1930s is present in spades with this transfer with a nice layer of film-like grain present, a strong grayscale bringing the richness of the black levels into clear focus, and excellent sharpness offering nice details in the faces of the actors. But there are more tiny scratches present than one would like in Universal’s hi...
The DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono sound mix is very much of its era with dialogue, the music, and the sound effects skillfully blended into a single track. Universal has done a tremendous job in ridding the track of any age-related hiss, crackle, flutter, or pops allowing the dialogue especially to come through clearly and effectively.
Audio Commentary: film historian Kat Ellinger provides a talky but moderately interesting assessment of the film. She spends a great deal of time discussing the career of Mitchell Leisen and much less time analyzing the themes and implications of the film. She offers a bit of background on Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Gail Patrick, and Sir Guy St...
Death Takes a Holiday is a remarkably compact allegory on man’s love of life and fear of death (its semi-remake Meet Joe Blackmore than doubled its running time), and this 1934 gem still plays wonderfully for modern audiences and has meanings for us that resonate just as strongly into today’s world as they did during its original release. Recommend...
Aug 18, 2017 · Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Movie Rank - 9/10. 9/10. Summary. With a title that sounds like a comedy Death Takes a Holiday surprisingly turns out to be a riveting romance that earns its place next to such films as Wuthering Heights and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Fredric March plays Death as if he thought he might possibly be Dracula; and he intones all his words with an awesome, old-Shakespearian-actor solemnity. Evelyn Venable is contrastingly starry ...
Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. It is based on the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (1891–1957), as adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris.
Based on an Italian play that performed on Broadway in 1929, the 1934 DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY would be the inspiration for the 1998 Brad Pitt film MEET JOE BLACK--but whereas MEET JOE BLACK proved a highly literal interpretation of the theme, DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY is unexpectedly lyric in tone.
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Death Takes a Holiday: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander. The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
