Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years)
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Actor: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander, Priscilla Pointer, Rosemary Murphy, Walter McGinnDirector: Daniel Petrie
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Edward R. Brown
Cinematographer: James Crabe
Producer: Audrey Maas
Producer: David Susskind
Producer: Harry R. Sherman
Writer: James Costigan
Writer: Joseph P. Lash
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years)
DVD Review: Makes history enjoyable
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this back in the 70's on PBS and thought it was excellent. I wanted to add it to my growing home collection.DVD Review: The best DVD for its price in all of Amazon.com
Summary: 5 Stars
This story of Eleanor and FDR is simply a masterpeice in every way. The quality of the transfer is second to none. The story both written and told with so much sensitivity their love of history of the WW2 period shines through in every word. I remember the series when it first aired in the 1970's and I saw the price. I figured they butchered the movies or the transfer was aweful. I was wrong on both counts. The DVD transfer was beyond first rate.
The run time for The Early Years is 204 Minutes.
The run time for The White House Years is 156 Minutes.
While there is no way to pardon FDR's love affair with his peice of fluff on the side, I understood the man. FDR was wheelchair bound. This young beautiful secretary was interested in him back when he was a scrapping virile able bodied man full of energy and hormones. Nice as she was on the eyes, this scretary was no where near FDR's intellectual equal. FDR especially after his cotracting polio needed the rich intellectual stimulation only a lady of quality like Eleanor could give. FDR's love of Eleanor was sexual but it was vitally intellectual. Eleanor was FDR's safe harbor and unfortunately he took her role for granted.
The DVD shares all the raw emotions with you. If shares good points and bad. If offers insights into the country and world at these most trying of times. This is one of the best DVD I sets have ever seen at this level of quality. Generally everything HBO sells is overpriced but for the quality this DVD set is actually the best bargain I can remember going from HBO. This is not just history it is love story told by people who also love history and that blend is unbeatable!
DVD Review: History At Its Most Personal
Summary: 5 Stars
This fine set contains two excellent mini-series which were first shown in the 1970s. Based on Joseph P. Lash's majestic dual biography, Eleanor and Franklin is a deeply moving portrayal of America's longest serving First Couple.
The Early Years is the better of the two series. It begins with FDR's death at Warm Springs in 1945 and portrays, in flashbacks through Eleanor's memories, their early lives. Franklin was a spoiled mama's boy, while Eleanor was a shy girl raised by her strict grandmother after her parents' early deaths. As distant cousins, Eleanor and Franklin met at family gatherings and knew each other only slightly until they reached adulthood. Their marriage was a love match and their early years happy until Franklin had an affair with Eleanor's secretary. The scenes depicting how the couple decided to stay together are highly poignant, as are the scenes showing Franklin falling ill with polio and at first giving way to depression, then with Eleanor's support becoming determined to resume an active life.
The second series depicts the Roosevelts during their White House years. By that time the couple had largely developed second lives, with FDR pinned down by work and paralysis and Eleanor constantly on the move overseeing New Deal projects and later the war effort. At times the second series seems a bit jumpy and rushed as it tries to pack 12 years, a depression, and a world war into a bit more than two hours. Nevertheless its an enjoyable and informative look at how the Roosevelts lived their lives, and the final scenes showing Eleanor confronting her old memories and hurts are very strong.
DVD Review: Eleanor & Franklin-complete set 1970's
Summary: 4 Stars
Detailed and engaging recounting of the life and Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and originally shown on network television back in the days when "the big three" still occasionally offered some enlightening and informative programming. These discs cover the Roosevelts from their childhood years, through Franklin's early forays into politics, his contraction of polio, the election campaigns, his affair with Eleanor's social secretary, and the teamwork of both he and his wife as they brought the U.S. back from depression and through the trials of World War II. Historically accurate, with excellent acting by the entire cast and great attention to historic detail by the set and costume designers. A bargain and must-have for any student of American history. DVD Review: Why I love this movie so much
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was 16 years old I lived in a small town in Virginia called Burkeville. One day we got a telephone call from someone from the town asking if we would be interested in being extras in a movie they were shooting down at the train station. Of course we (my mother, brother, sister, and myself) were estatic and said yes. The reason they were filming in Burkeville was because our little train station was one of only a few left where the funeral train carrying President Roosevelt actually travelled. Time came for the filming. It was so exciting. We got to hobnob with the stars. I remember meeting Edward Hermann and realizing how tall he was. Jane Alexander was absolutely beautiful. They were all extremely nice to us, but Ed Flanders took a liking to me and took me on several occasions to the local Tasty Queen for malts. (It made me so sad when I heard he had died). But the reason I think I love this movie the most is because just 1-1/2 years later, my mother passed away. She is in one of the whistle stop speech scenes and is on screen long enough for me to see her as she was back then. What wonderful memories it has for me. It is one of my fondest memories.
Description of Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years)
He was one of America's greatest presidents, leading the nation out of its darkest years and guiding it through one of its most difficult wars. She was his wife, a First Lady who declined the role of White House hostess and instead devoted herself to public service. This exclusive HBO Double Feature brings together the two critically acclaimed films ("The Early Years" and "The Whitehouse Years") detailing the Roosevelt's saga, presenting an intimate portrait of their public and private life, with award-winning performances from Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann.Television DVDs
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