VHS : The Young Philadelphians
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300269286
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300269280
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: February 07, 1995
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 3465
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 30, 1959
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Description:
A man accepts a plum job at a law firm if he stops seeing the bosschr(39)s daughter.
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Great classic movie in perfect condition. Seemed to be factory wrapped and well preserved. Absolutely no flaws that I could find.
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As a native Philadelphian, I found this movie supremely entertaining. For openers, the "Main Line" as alluded to throughout the film is not actually in Philadelphia. Rather, it was and is in the Western suburbs of Philadelphia...towns along the "main line" of the former Pennsylvania Railroad (now used by Amtrak and the Septa Regional Rail). These would include Villanova, Paoli, Swarthmore, Haverford, Radnor, etc. All very upscale and socially desireable communities. Rittenhouse Square (the opening ... Read More
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I read this book years ago. Movies tend to fall short of good novels because they are too limited in what they can cover. But this movie does quite well. In the book there were three generations of Irish. The hero's grandmother is the immigrant who got the family to America. Next Tony (the hero) gets a key block in the getting ahead game when his second generation mother finds a crack in society's door but doesn't quite get in herself. But she keeps her foot in the door in that commitment to ... Read More
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...is a copy of this movie.
A fifties black and white classic, this movie is everything movies used to be, but, sadly, are not today.
Who's Paul Newman? Sure, he's devastatingly handsome and burns up the screen as Tony, but it's Robert Vaughn who steals the show. His character, Chester, is riveting and achingly fleshed. 1959 Vaughn in a white dinner jacket...and the jail cell scene takes my breath away every time.
The soul of the movie is good triumping over ... Read More
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A steamy "Peyton Place" style sex story, featuring Paul Newman as Tony Lawrence, an ambitous young man whose soul is twisted by his aristocratic family's unwillingness to let him marry for love. Forced to play the power game, he plays it to the hilt, cynically using his sex appeal and ruthlessness to bring ruin to anyone standing in his path. I'm sure they must have toned the film script down quite a bit from what the book was like, but it's still pretty raw. Plus, Newman was one sexy monkey when ... Read More
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