Year: 1932
Genre:
Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 6,6 (NEVAZUT)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: George Cukor
Writer: Howard Estabrook, Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Composer: Max Steiner
Producer: David O. Selznick, Merlin Aylesworth
Actors: John Barrymore, Billie Burke, David Manners, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Cavanagh, Henry Stephenson, Gayle Evers, Elizabeth Patterson, Bramwell Fletcher, Dick French, Julie Haydon, Paul Irving, Dennis O'Keefe, Mildred Shay
Description: After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them. His wife has divorced him and is already planning her next marriage, and his daughter has grown up throughout the years and is planning to marry as well.
Comments: Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by Clemence Dane, the film is set on the day that Hepburn's mother, Billie Burke, is to divorce her insane and long-institutionalized husband John Barrymore. But Barrymore escapes from the asylum and returns home, only vaguely aware of the passage of time (he was shell-shocked during WWI). His presence puts Burke in an uncomfortable spot, especially since she plans to wed Paul Cavanaugh. Pressured by her idiotically traditional family to renew her vows with her first husband, Burke is saved from a lifetime of misery by her spunky daughter Hepburn, who takes care of her child-like father. The film's attitude towards male-female relationships, not to mention its archaic approach to the problem of mental illness, make Bill of Divorcement a chore to sit through today. Its saving grace is the warm rapport between Katharine Hepburn and John Barrymore (contrary to Hollywood legend, they did not despise one another). Even given its dated quality, Bill of Divorcement is more palatable than its empty 1940 remake, which starred Maureen O'Hara and Adolphe Menjou. — Hal Erickson
Duration: 70 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: I:\_Filmovi bez prevoda\A Bill of Divorcement (1932) [TVRip]\A Bill of Divorcement (1932) [TVRip].avi
Filesize: 669 MB
Video: DivX 5 - resolution: 640x480
Audio:
Subtitles: None