Shenandoah [VHS]
by Andrew V. McLaglen
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Actor: Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, James Stewart, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary ForsythDirector: Andrew V. McLaglen
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown), Analog; English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 1996-04-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
VHS Movie Reviews of Shenandoah [VHS]
Movie Review: Family
Summary: 5 Stars
Authentic civil war action and good opinions about the causes and reasons for the war. Good family values.Movie Review: Classic James Stewart
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a classic civil war era movie wioth some great actors and a pretty good script. Leaving a son and daughter-in-law with a new baby alone with all the bad guys in the area, while you take all the rest of the men hunting for a lost younger son, is a little bit unbelieveable but I guess that's how they write them. I think the Ranchers take on who provided for their success in farming is very indicative of out humanist society. God is given a backup role in their success. All in all, this was an entertaining movie.Movie Review: Jimmy Stewart at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved the movie. Great acting from the youngest to the oldest actors. This is from an era when movies were great!Movie Review: Moving, beautifully filmed Drama about family's determination to stay together during America's Civil War.
Summary: 5 Stars
Absolutely beautiful film that only gets better with age, showcasing one of the great actor, James Stewart's very best performances.
The film tells the story of a close knit family led by patriarch Stewart who is determined to keep his family out of the Civil War and stay to work on there farm in Virginia. However, the war catches up to them eventually and with it comes tragedy,loss,death and finally, hope.
Director Mclagen was mainly known for directing films more of the Action variety, but embues the film with a great subtlety and warmth that connects and involves the viewer in the story.
Stewart's character is a noble character whom the audience can identify with. A good man who is a widower and truly loves and cares for his family and does not believe(rightfully) in the insanity of War. The rest of the cast are absolutely believable in there parts, but it's Stewart that anchors this film.
The film is often classified in the Western genre, but it's really more of a historical Drama and one of cinema's best interpretations of the American Civil War.
Both sides are handled with equally amounts of symapthy and neither are villiainized for the antagonist of this piece is rather war itself than the men involved therein.
Veteran actor George Kennedy has a classic bit as a world weary general who sympathesizes with Stewart's dstraught father who has just had his young son taken prisoner by the Union Army. It's a little scene but it adds alot of weight to the film.
Credit must be given to how unexpected the deaths are presented within this film, adding extra layers of tragedy that makes for a film destined to be labelled a tearjerker.
Easily one of the best films about this most written about topic in American history and one of the most neglected. Certainly worth a reappraisal by audiences seeking entertainment with genuine heart and feeling not dilluted by rampant cynicism.
Movie Review: Shenandoah
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very impressed with the dvd. I love this movie. Thanks for the great service. Susan Coker
Summary of Shenandoah [VHS]
tr28 NEW, SEALED!! FREE UPGRADE TO FIRST CLASS!!Shenandoah, a film well-liked in its day, recalls Friendly Persuasion and foreshadows The Patriot as it tells of an American clan traumatized by war on native soil. Virginia farmer James Stewart has never owned slaves, owes allegiance to no one beyond his own kin, and adamantly disregards the North-South strife rumbling just over the hill: "This war is not mine and I take no note of it." That changes when youngest son Philip Alford (To Kill a Mockingbird's Jem) is carried off by Yankees, and the family must ride out to reclaim him. Shenandoah has several affecting moments--notably a homefront atrocity--but much of it is lit and played like a television show. Script and direction are formulaic, Stewart falls back on cozy shtick, and the supporting cast is a collection of bland studio contract players. As the closing credit says: "filmed entirely at Universal City." --Richard T. Jameson
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