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 enlarge | Directors: Hugh Harman, Susan F. Walker, W.s. Van Dyke
Actors: Clark Gable, Jeanette Macdonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 13711
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD65288D
UPC: 012569528826
EAN: 0012569528826
ASIN: B000F7CMQI
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1936
Release Date: June 20, 2006
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 well played February 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Jeanette McDonald and I like the story line of good girl vs bad boy who with the support of a priest turn the bad boy into a good boy - although he was really a good boy all along he just didn't have the proper morals. I like what it stood for and then the build the story around the great earthquake that took place in San Fran. Great special effects for that time period. I love the cast and the music.
San Francisco - A Great Movie January 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I watched the film tonight after recently purchasing it through Amazon. Years ago I saw it for the first time and remembered it's powerful message. The main theme is that San Francisco had prosperity at the turn-of-the-century but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1906. Some might think that this happened as punishment for immorality. Whatever the reason for disaster such as this all people are affected. It's great that outstanding films such as "San Franciso" are available to view in 2007 - 71 years after it was made (1936).
Great classic December 19, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the great special effects movie of the golden age of Hollywood. A great cast and story, along with memorable tunes, would be enough, but the topper is the spectacular special effects that were the gold standard for years showing the San Francisco Earthquake of 1904. The scenes came back realistically when compared with the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. One of the better outings for MacDonald without Nelson, and a rare, wonderful chance to see Gable and Tracy play off each other. Absolutely a classic for the library.
Saaaaan Fran-Cis-Co November 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always loved this movie. Watching Mary Blake sing San Francisco at the Chicken Ball to save Blackie Norton's Paradise Bar always brings tears to my eyes. Jeannette McDonald's got some pipes.
One of the muscles of Clark Gable. November 2, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before there was a Las Vegas, there was San Francisco: "sin city," the most corrupt town in the U.S.A., according to Father Tim Mullin (Spencer Tracy). It was filled of illegal gambling dens, like the one run by Blackie Norton (Clark Gable), Mullin's boyhood friend whom he has been trying to reform for years. When Norton hires Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) to sing in his club, she seeks the guidance of Father Mullin to help her survive this den of iniquity. The plot is a rather forthright formula story of a tug-of-war romance between bad boy Blackie Norton and mama's boy Jack Burley, scion of a well-to -do family for the affections of singer Mary Blake. It's also a story of good vs. evil, the good being Father Mullen and the bad obviously being Norton.
Romance don't come like this no more and out of all the films that I've seen with Gable, this is his other shining moment, along with "Gone With The Wind". McDonald is one beautiful lady and she sings frequently in the film in that soprano operetta vocal style that apparently was popular back then, and there is even an overlong sequence where she plays Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust" and brings Blackie rather incredibly to tears. In a thankless role. Tracy is a natural actor and symbolizes the film's heavy religious overtones resulting in a most unbelievable conversion at the end. There is the scene where Jeneatte McDonald is having a 1 on 1 conversation with her future mother in law. Mrs. Bailey tells her that the "aristocracy" of San Francisco is not what people think. "They are a wild and crazy bunch living a sinful life with party's that last for days! She says. So you see the film wanted us to feel how society viewed others in those days.
Interesting enough, the special effects showing San Francisco April 18, 1906 Earthquake engulfed in flames following the quake and its aftermath were high tech in 1936 (a special effects tour de force for art directors Arnold Gillespie and his unaccredited associate James Basevi) and are still effective today. The quake takes place at a key point in the film toward the end. Because the audience becomes enthralled in what is taking place on the screen, the quake is totally unexpected--though waited for since the beginning of the movie. Director W.S. Van Dyke does a masterful job of bringing the quake to bear at just the right moment for full effect. Today's disaster flicks such as The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition) should take a lesson from this film because that won me over.
One of my favorite's scenes was when Blackie, was desperately searching for Mary in the rubble, at long last finds religion and prays to God for his sweetheart's salvation. At the end, an unidentified bit player shouts defiantly "We'll build a new San Francisco!" -- and by golly, they do!
Thanks Claire for sharing one of your favorites with me.
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