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Amazon.com: Classic screwball comedy with Lombard as madcap heiress who hires Powell as butler after finding him on garbage hunt. Marvelously funny Powell teaches them money isn't everything. He's actually from a wealthy Boston family and took up residence at the dump after a bad love affair. From Eric Hatch novel. Academy Award nominations for Best Director-Gregory LaCava; Best Actor-Powell; Best Actress-Lombard; Best Supporting Actor-Mowbray; Best Supporting Actress-Brady; and Best Screenplay-Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskinch. Great movie! This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. Amazon.com essential video: Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext. The Bullocks are a well-heeled, harebrained Manhattan family genetically engineered for screwball collisions: father Alexander (Eugene Pallette, of the foghorn voice and thick-knit eyebrows) is the breadwinner at wit's end, thanks to his spoiled daughters, the sultry Cornelia (Gail Patrick) and the sweet but scatterbrained Irene (a luminous Carole Lombard), his dizzy and doting wife, Angelica (Alice Brady), and her "protégé," Italian freeloader Carlo (Mischa Auer). When Irene wins a society scavenger hunt (and atypically trumps her scheming sister) by producing a "lost man," a seeming tramp named Godfrey (William Powell), all their lives are transformed. With the always suave, effortlessly funny Powell in the title role, this mystery man provides the film's conscience and its model of decency; the giddy, passionate Lombard holds out its model for triumphant love. In a movie riddled with memorable comic highlights, the real miracle is the unapologetic romanticism that prevails. --Sam Sutherland Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-26
sometimes classics can't be matched
My Man Godfrey {1936} is a classic in every sense of the word. It is a wonderful picture of Have's and Have's Not during a period that was hard on even some of the Have's. It is a study of human nature and filled with characters so different from each other to give a fantastic picture of humanity. William Powell gives a performance that shows why he was a major box office draw. It is a movie not to be missed. If only to make you think about where you fit in the scheme of society. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-26
Nice Movie, Bad Presentation
Don't buy this one! Nice example of the 30's screwball comedy genre. But this particular DVD version (My Man Godfrey) is badly flawed by the insertion throughout the whole movie of a "bug" in the lower right of the picture. The bug is "RE" which evidently stands for "Reel Enterprises," the copyright owner for this version. Why would they deface such a good movie by inserting such a distraction? Surely not for the publicity; I'll never buy another product from Reel Enterprises. Rating:
Date: 2008-04-07
A Classic!
A must have for any classic movie collection. A great screwball comedy with a terrific storyline. How can you go wrong with such a great price and a good clean copy! Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-07
1st time not completly pleased
The movie was great but this is the first time the dvd was not perfect it skips near the end which is some of the best part, so even though I have always been pleased with the dvd I have gotten from here I will not want one fom this particular company again Rating: 
Date: 2008-03-28
Great Price - Great Black and White Print - Legend
If you're reading this review, you know that this is one of the greatest screwball comedies ever to come out of Hollywood, so we'll concentrate on the bargain price of the Legend Films release of this wonderful movie.
Since the beginning of DVDs, the only copy worth owning of My Man Godfrey was the very pricey Criterion copy. Not all movie-loving folks can feel comfortable divying up 35 bucks and more for their favorite films. So like myself, they were disappointed time-and-again by spending hard-earned cash on washed out, horrible public domain DVD prints, all the while wanting to own a nice, clean, audible copy of My Man Godfrey.
Over the past few years, Legend Films has been releasing classic black-and-white films in colorized versions (this will always gall movie purists; I too have always sworn off colorized black-and-white films).
On the flip side of the coin, Legend Films deserves a huge thumbs-up! for releasing BOTH the original Black-and-White version, as well as the Colorized print, of these classic movies. And Legend Films is not just Colorizing films, they are restoring them, as well. What this means for movie hungry fans like you and I, is that we are given a beautiful, almost pristine Black-and White print of some of our favorite movies at very reasonable prices, often much less than even the Hollywood studio companies are releasing on DVD. I've seen the Criterion version of My Man Godfrey, and yes, it is beautiful - I even own several Criterion films that I felt I couldn't live without - and I have to say that I see no real difference in the quality of the Black-and-White print included on the Legend Films version, versus the Criterion print. What is the difference, then, between a 35 dollar DVD from Criterion, and a $9.99 DVD from Legend Films?
What it comes down to, are the extras, as well as the time and effort that Criterion put into their own restoration of this important example of 1930's screwball comedy. And they did it first, releasing it at a time when no one else was taking the time and effort to restore and provide this wonderful film to the general public. So it comes down to choice; if you can afford the extra change, and you like all the wonderful extras (which I did!) on the Criterion release of My Man Godfrey, then that should be your choice. But if you are on a budget that doesn't allow you to spend that kind of change, you can't do any better at this time than the Legend Films BW/Colorized release.
And, if you're wondering, yes, I did take a peak at the colorized version. I watched about five minutes, then went back to the black-and-white version (which I'd already watched one time through). Not because it wasn't well done, but because that just isn't my taste. Anymore than watching a colorized version of Citizen Kane, or The Maltese Falcon, would be. If you want to watch the colorized version, do so. And thank Legend Films that you have both options.My Man Godfrey (Colorized / Black and White) |
