Mark Twain Tonight

Mark Twain Tonight
by Paul Bogart

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Actor: Hal Holbrook
Director: Paul Bogart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO

DVD Reviews of Mark Twain Tonight

DVD Review: Fabulous!
Summary: 5 Stars

Mark Twain travelled to Australia in 1895. A journalist reported "He is in no sense a disappointment as a humorist. He starts his audience laughing in the very first sentence he utters, and for two hours keeps them in a continual roar".

This video performance by Hal Holbrook captures what I imagine my fellow Sydney residents would have experienced 114 years ago. It is a delight to watch, not only for a glimpse into the past, but also to hear this timeless storyteller relate a philosophy completely relevant to our early 21st Century.

DVD Review: What a great performance!
Summary: 5 Stars

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain. He brings the man to life along with the wit and wisdom of the humorist. How sad that we have no such observer of humanity now. I would love to hear Twain commenting on humanity today.

DVD Review: Well pleased.
Summary: 5 Stars

It was delivered in a timely manner and am very pleased with the DVD. Haven't had a chance to view it as of yet but will after Christmas. Thanks. B. Richter

DVD Review: Mark Twain Tonight - a classic for my collection
Summary: 5 Stars

Mark Twain Tonight is now a valued item in my personal library of classics. One of my professors at college was inspired to impersonate Mark Twain based on this performance. I would highly recommend this educational & entertaining dvd for anyone who wants more than Hollywood mindless entertainment.

DVD Review: Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain
Summary: 5 Stars

Saw this presentation years ago as a kid and watched it again now and its still great. Our kid enjoys it, too, so, Mark Twain (and Halbrook) hasn't lost his charm.

Description of Mark Twain Tonight

Hal holbrooks landmark one-man show made television history when watched by over 30 million viewers. Holbrooks classic performance captures the flamboyant humor and irreverence of mark twain. Studio: Kultur Release Date: 03/29/2005 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr

Come meet Mark Twain. OK, true, the humorist has been dead for more years than we care to remember, and not many of us around today were alive to hear what he sounded like. But Hal Holbrook is so spectacular in his one-man performance that you could swear you were listening to Twain himself. The gravelly voice, the lined face, the slow shuffle, and cigar-induced throat clearings seem so natural that you'll have difficulty recognizing Holbrook beneath the white suit, the gray hair, and the handlebar mustache.

Mark Twain Tonight! began as a Broadway show in the 1960s and was filmed as a CBS special in 1967. Yet you'd never know it, because the humor, which is more than a century old, is still laugh-out-loud funny today. Twain--I mean, Holbrook--gives a monologue that is rambling, intelligent, and humorous as he culls together commentary from a variety of Twain sources. From dachshund hounds, politics, and patriotism to cigar smoking, memory loss, and religion, this 90-minute video leaps from subject to subject as we're entertained by material that's as fresh today as it was when it was written in the 1800s. --Jenny Brown

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