The Cary Grant Box Set Holiday is among one of the best gifts for yourself or for a friend or family. The set includes the VERY best films featuring Cary Grant such as Only Angels Have Wings, The Talk of the Town, His Girl Friday, Holiday,and The Awful Truth. This set includes an exclusive set of collectible postcards with vintage photographs. All 5 discs are loaded with featurettes and commentaries, and are packaged in Collectible packaging. All the movies in the set are all GREAT. Often times these packaged sets often feature one of the best films, and a few sightly good films, but this set features his best in his career.
A quick rundown of the movies in this set :
His Girl Friday (1940)- Is a hilarious comedy, featuring Cary Grant's with Rosalind Russell who plays a reporter Hildy who is attempting to leave Grant's newspaper to get married. This film is one of AFI's top 20 American comedies of all time. Directed by Howard Hawks, and is many peoples top favorites.
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)-is another hilarious comedy also directed by Howard Hawks, with Jean Arthur as Cary's love interest. The film features an Andes Mountain adventure of planes and past loves and lots of comedic drama. It has a great supporting cast-Thomas Mitchell, Richard Barthelmess, a young and beautiful Rita Hayworth-and thrilling suspense. Another great movie.
Holiday (1938)-This movie is one of the four Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn movies but not their best. Many prefer the The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby, which say are the couples best. This film is quite wonderful, touching and funny, with sweet tender moments. The movie is set around New Year's , with Cary playing Johnny Case engaged to Kate's black sheep millionaire heiress.
The Awful Truth (1937)- Is a romance and comedy, starring Irene Dunne in which was an Oscar-nominated performance as the Cary's almost-divorced wife. Both Dunne and Cary were planning to remarry, although their crazy antics may end up ruining both of their plans. Nominated for Best Picture Oscar and winner of Best Director for Leo McCarey. The film was also nominated for Screenplay and Supporting Actor for Ralph Bellamy as Irene's new love interest), this is one of the best comedies of all.
The Talk of the Town (1942)-Directed by George Stevens featuring Jean Arthur who is really very funny and Ronald Colman starring as a law professor in line for the Supreme Court. It was nominated for 7 Oscars, including Picture, Original Story, and Screenplay. Grant has recently escaped from prison and is staying with Jean Arthur, while Colman is already a guest.
Cary Grant in The Holiday
Cary Grant Box Set
Review By Richard E. Hourula
"The problem with some DVD box sets is that there's usually a film or two included that you could very well do without or perhaps would not even like in your film collection. No such problem with the simply named "The Cary Grant Box Set" which includes five movies that are all among Grant's very best. That alone makes this a must-have for Grant fans.
So the featurettes, the vintage replica movie postcards and the overall attractive packaging are bonuses -- significant ones at that.
The films feature such wonderful leading ladies as Jean Arthur (twice) Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne and the incomparable Katherine Hepburn. Hepburn appears in "Holiday" directed by George Cukor, a depression era film that skewers the upper class. Grant plays Johnny Case an up and coming young business man who thinks more of exploring life than of making money. He finds himself in love with the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur but it is soon obvious that he has more in common with the girl's sister. Lew Ayers turns in a memorable performance as the brother, a philosophizing drunk.
"Only Angels Have Wings" offers a very different Grant, this time playing a the leader of a crew of daring mail pilots in South America. Here Jean Arthur is the love interest though a lovely young Rita Hayworth offers competition. Thomas Mitchell is part of a stellar cast directed by the great Howard Hawks.
"Talk of the Town" is to me one of the most underrated films of all time. Grant is Leopold Dilg a labor activist framed for a factory bombing. After escaping from jail he hides out in the bucolic summer home of an old childhood friend played by Jean Arthur. The catch is that she's renting the home to one of America's leading legal minds a supreme court candidate played by Ronald Coleman. There is comedy, the inevitable romance and a good deal of politics in this surprisingly thought provoking film directed by George Stevens.
Grant is again directed by Hawks but this time in a classic screwball comedy in "His Girl Friday." This remake of "Front Page" introduced the concept of rapid fire overlapping dialogue, principally between Grant and co-star Russell who play a former husband and wife team that doubled as a newspaper reporting dynamic duo. Grant would like them back together again but Russell and a would-be second husband played by Ralph Bellamy have other ideas. Grant is diabolical and hilarious as he manipulates events around a forthcoming execution in an effort to get the girl and the story.
Among the laughs, "His Girl Friday" also has a points to make about corruption, media and justice.
"The Awful Truth" starring Grant and Dunne is straight screwball as the two stars play a divorcing married couple that maybe doesn't really want to separate. Leo McCarey directed this fast paced romp, poor old Ralph Bellamy is again Grant's hapless foil.
In the unlikely event I'm sent to a desert island that has a DVD player and can only bring a few DVD sets, this one is coming with me. In any event this box set should find itself on the the shelves of any Cary Grant fan."
US $9.00
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