Saratoga [VHS]

Saratoga [VHS]
by Jack Conway

Saratoga [VHS]

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Actor: Clark Gable, Frank Morgan, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Pidgeon
Director: Jack Conway
Cinematographer: Ray June
Editor: Elmo Veron
Producer: Bernard H. Hyman
Producer: John Emerson
Writer: Anita Loos
Writer: Robert E. Hopkins
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 92 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)

VHS Movie Reviews of Saratoga [VHS]

Movie Review: A classic!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Just a great movie, especially for racing fans. Good screen chemistry beyween Gable and Harlow and a nice supporting cast. Even Margaret Hamilton is likable in a very small role. A must see.

Movie Review: Racing in Saratoga
Summary: 3 Stars

A "show" for film or Harlow buffs only. Cookie cutter plot "breezes" along but is never "fast" fun. At the finish line, you're more interested in picking out Harlow's doubles than the actual movie. Gable is good (Honey, I love ya) plus it's always fun to look at the "stable" of MGM bit part actors. Seeing Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan on the train is my pick of the day! Their trip to Oz was only a few years away.

Watching Harlow is a good "bet" too due to some eerie lines (Goodbye and I could just die) so this makes Saratoga a curio in itself. However, this movie isn't a "winner" but more an also-ran. Lionel Barrymore finishes strong with some good lines but it's Una Merkel who comes home the winner: We women can do things to a man we love that men wouldn't do to a rattlesnake.

Movie Review: One of my Favorite Gable/Harlow films
Summary: 5 Stars

Yes, it is sad to see the bloated, dying Jean Harlow in her final film.

It is sad that she died while making this film.

She had so much pressure from her family to always work that she worked no matter how bad she felt.

Harlow seems more subdued than in any of her other films.

While I like the flim Bombshell, Harlow's voice was too shrill and over the top. However, this is the type of dialouge used in the 1930s.

Next to Dinner at Eight, which is a classic film of the 1930s, Saratoga is my favorite Harlow film.

Mary Dees as a stand in and with another voice from radio reading Harlow's lines do not take from the film.

Dees' hat was all the fashion of the time. Large hats were all the rage in the 1930s.

It is sad that this film has never been converted to DVD and remastered.

Movie Review: For Harlow
Summary: 5 Stars

Jean Harlow was the original blonde bombshell, and unlike Marilyn Monroe who came after her and tried to imitate her, Jean really could ACT, and she really had "IT", the star-quality thingy aura, while Marilyn just looked pretty on screen without being as witty or ingenious as Harlow. Saratoga was, as everyone knows, her last film, and you can totally see the sickness in her, she looks weary and sick underneath the acting in some scenes, but she really still gives a good performance. REALLY GOOD. Because she is Harlow. She and Gable perform their usual boy-gets-the-girl-in-the-end plot, and do it well with thier usual AH-MAZING chemistry. I could feel that Harlow was gone when they used the double, as it is obviuos to see, but it felt sad knowing she was dead and gone then. My personal favorite Gable/Harlow film is Red Dust, and it is my favorite pre-code too, because of the HOT scenes and it is well acted by a top-notch cast and good sets. Truly an all-star pre-code extravaganza. Well, anyways, Saratoga is an enjoyable romantic comedy movie, inspite of the fact that Harlow's fate was condemned and you can see her plainly sick on the screen. It was only fitting that her last film was a good one and with her screen partner Clark Gable. P.S.- Clark cried on Jean's coffin or whatever it was at her funeral, stricken with sadness, along with William Powell, the great love of Jean Harlow's life.

Movie Review: Jean Harlow. What a trouper.
Summary: 4 Stars

Not a bad job of concealing the fact that Jean died halfway through the shooting of this movie. I am glad they didn't start over. Because Jean Harlow sick is still pretty good & this movie is a fitting legacy to her. Actually if you didn't know, the floppy hat, the over use of binoculars at the race track & brief back shots might not have tipped you off.
Oh, the movie. It is really a pretty good romantic comedy about horse racing & betting. The old time race scenes are great.Clark Gable plays the bookie with a heart of gold. Everybody loves him & he loves everybody. Jean is a snob who apparently has spent too much time in Europe. Gable turns her around in no time. Her father was a breeder & she is engaged to a a rich, complusive gambler. Get the picture? The movie alternates between Florida & New York race tracks. Complications ensue but we all know that Clark will get Jean by the closing credits. Lots of star power, good actors like Lionel Barrymore & Walter Pidgeon & character actors like Hattie McDaniel & Frank Morgan. I loved Una Merkel who played Fritzi.
Apparently the last shot of the movie with Clark & Jean waving from the last car on the train was shot eariler. See this one for more than the obvious reason.

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