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The Guardsman (1931)
starring: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts, Maude Eburne
directed by: Sidney Franklin

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302593266
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302593263
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 83 minutes
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1931
Sales Rank: 5055

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Time for the DVD
If you've never seen this film, it's worth searching for, but it would be great if the studio would release a DVD version, with perhaps some nice special features. It's hard to imagine there might be many persons left who had the thrill of seeing Lunt and Fontanne in their youth, but there are theatre biographers and other experts who could contribute some valuable commentary. Preserving these two for future generations is more than an historical interest. Their performances are peerless, and a real treasure.

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- Amazing Showcase for Two Larger-Than-Life Legends
The Guardsman is an amazing motion picture. Although it does not take full advantage of its being a movie and treats itself more like an expanded stage play, it is an invaluable and fleeting glimpse of the greatest on-stage acting duo of all time, husband and wife stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The acting, needless to say, is phenomenal. Lunt fully imbodies his character, a pompous but insecure actor who needs constant praise to keep himself going. His role is delicious comedy, but he manages to bring in hilarious pity and sorrow when he suspects his wife is being unfaithful. Fontanne, although not as beautiful as some of M-G-M's other actresses of the era (Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, and the like), completely makes up for this with her subtle and sexy performance. No one could have pulled ... Read More

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- A CURIO
Theatrical legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne act together in their only movie. THE GUARDSMAN is a frothy sex farce which owes much to the relative freedom of that pre-code era. The stage greats play themselves in sense, in that they are married stage actors! The husband becomes suspicious when Fontanne plays Chopin on the piano gets seemingly lost in private reveries; he thinks she's being unfaithful. Lunt re-invents himself all disguised as a Russian guardsman - to whom his wife seems a veritable pushover............Does she know all along that the mysterious Russian is her husband? The narrative leaves one in serious doubt, a factor abetted by the sly acting of Miss Fontanne. There were no stars in the Hollywood of 1931 who could even approximate the Lunts' blend of class, style, technique ... Read More

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