The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)
by Curtis Bernhardt, George Cukor, Jean Negulesco, Michael Curtiz, Vincent Sherman
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Actor: David Brian, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Van HeflinDirector: Curtis Bernhardt, George Cukor, Jean Negulesco, Michael Curtiz, Vincent Sherman
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Anita Loos
Writer: Catherine Turney
Writer: Clare Boothe Luce
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 580 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)
DVD Review: "An Important Crawford Boxset to Own!"
Summary: 5 Stars
If your a fan of Joan Crawford, or simply a fan of great cinema, "The Joan Crawford Boxset" is a must-to-own! Featured are 5 wonderful Crawford films, each beautifully packaged in their own DVD covers, and all are fully restored for your viewing enjoyment. Two of Joan's films in this set, "The Woman" and "Mildred Pierce", were previously released on DVD, but the other 3 films are new to DVD; "The Damned Don't Cry" makes it home video release here for the first time, as it was never released commercially on VHS; and "Humoresque" and "Possessed" are restored in pristine condition. The jewel here, of course, is Joan's Oscar winning perfromance in "Mildred Pierce"; this DVD also comes with a wonderful documentary on the Crawford phenomenon, which is the most informative piece of work on her life ever produced. "The Women" is a true classic, and although Joan is in a minor role, she steals the film as it was her first bitch role. After "Mildred', Joan starred in a series of exquisite melodramas and 3 are found in this collection; she stars as a woman with a drinking problem in "Humoresque', she plays a deranged woman who shoots her lover in "Possessed", in which she received her second Oscar nomination for Best Actress", and she goes from being a 12 o'clock girl in a 6 o'clock town to Vegas and the mafia with furs in "The Damned Don't Cry". Without a doubt an excellent boxset covering some of Crawford's zenith years as one of Hollywood's best actresses. Pick up Joan's second boxset too; it features 5 more Joan Crawford films for your enyjoyment.DVD Review: A Must Have!
Summary: 5 Stars
This set is a Must Have for any Joan Crawford fan. I am beyond happy with this purchase! I highly recommend this boxed set to any Joan fan.DVD Review: The Joan Crawford Collection
Summary: 5 Stars
This collection was classic Joan Crawford. Of course Mildred Pierce was excellent as was The Damned Don't Cry. I watched The Women with a group of women who had never seen it and we had a great time. The Women has been remade recently and did not hold up to the Joan Crawford version.
Possesed and Humoresque were good also.
JB
DVD Review: Now I know why this set is never on sale
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd put off getting this boxed set because it never went on sale. That is true of both this set and the Judy Garland Signature Collection. I finally did get this one, and for the past few days I've gone through the set and I can see why it's never on sale. Although I frequently see "The Women" and "Mildred Pierce" televised, it had been awhile for two of the others, and I had never seen "Humoresque" before. What a treat, what five outstanding films. You could honestly say that "The Women" and "Humoresque" are not really Joan's films. The leads are actually Norma Shearer and John Garfield, respectively. However, even in these films Joan plays a critical role I can't see going to any other actress, and that's an odd thing to say since they are both two very different films.
"The Women" is really the only film even bordering on comedy, with the other four being rather dark, and reflecting the domination of film noir during the post-WWII period. Other people have mentioned the plot details, so let me just say a few words about the extra features. WHV has consistently put out the best classic film boxed sets on the market, and this is one of them. They always pack these things with extra features, and they seem to know what kind of extra features suit each set. For example, the Warner Gangsters franchise always gets the Warner Night at the Movies treatment (a short subject, a cartoon, and a newsreel), and it fits. Likewise WHV seemed to know that humorous old MGM shorts and Bugs Bunny would just be an odd fit for Joan's films, although the humorous "The Women" does have some old 30's short subjects on its disc. Instead, we get some topnotch commentary and featurettes that focus on different aspects of the films. Well done WHV, this is a great salute to Joan.
DVD Review: films with class
Summary: 5 Stars
These films have a class about them that the newer generation of films do not.All though the films are in black and white the stories go along with the non color whitch i think makes this period of films classic. This way you can immagine any color of a dress that you want.There is a fashion show in The Women that was shot in color.
The Damed Dont Cry and Mildred Pierce were my favorite out of the set. I am now watching vol. 2 , Joan Crawford.She is a star with class.
Description of The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)
The Joan Crawford Collection features classics from the star whose career spanned more than 40 years. "I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door." - Joan CrawfordThe Joan Crawford Collection brings together a potent group of films from Crawford's career renaissance: her Warner Bros. run of the late 1940s, beginning with Mildred Pierce. Four of the titles are from that heated, noirish streak, including Crawford's 1945 Oscar-winning turn in Mildred, a great Hollywood example of an actress's persona meeting the zeitgeist moment. In this adaptation of the James M. Cain novel, Crawford plays a sacrificing mother perfectly willing to claw her way to success for the sake of her ingrate daughter. Michael Curtiz directed, snapping Crawford out of a long career slide.
Humoresque (1946) was promptly given the top-drawer treatment, and it's a truly epic melodrama about a restless society woman who takes up the cause of a young violinist (John Garfield) from the slums. Possessed (1947) gave Crawford a thorough workout as a woman in complete obsessive breakdown from various romantic traumas. What Crawford lacks in subtlety she makes up for in sheer will, which suits the character well (and brought another best actress Oscar nomination). The Damned Don't Cry (1950) is a film noir smash-up, with Crawford as a low-rent dame who brazens her way into becoming a fur-lined mobster's moll (it was loosely inspired by the Bugsy Siegel-Virginia Hill story). It's overripe but entertaining.
1939's The Women, an MGM picture, doesn't fit the mood of the collection, although it has its fans. George Cukor directed this catty version of the Clare Booth Luce play, which has an all-female ensemble cast; Crawford is in very good form as a bad girl. The movie's reputation is somewhat beyond its actual witchy charm. (Packaging gaffe: the photo on the back cover is from Seven Women.) DVD extras tend toward smallish documentaries, save the absorbing 90-minute career profile The Ultimate Movie Star on the Mildred Pierce disc, an even-handed study that includes frank revelations from director-lover Vincent Sherman and the "wire hangers" story from adopted daughter Christina. Sherman contributes a commentary on The Damned Don't Cry. --Robert Horton
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