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Director:
George Stevens Jr.
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Release Date:
3 May 1985 (USA) more
Plot:
Biography of director George Stevens by his son. It includes clips from many of his films with commentary... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
User Comments:
Tribute to George Stevens narrated by his son... more (6 total)

Cast

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Jean Arthur ... Herself (archive footage)

Fred Astaire ... Himself

Montgomery Clift ... Himself (archive footage)

James Dean ... Himself (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ... Himself

Cary Grant ... Himself (voice)

Katharine Hepburn ... Herself

Rock Hudson ... Himself (archive footage)
Sam Jaffe ... Himself (archive footage)

Alan Ladd ... Himself (archive footage)

Fred MacMurray ... Himself (archive footage)
Joel McCrea ... Himself

Jack Palance ... Himself (archive footage)
Millie Perkins ... Herself

Ginger Rogers ... Herself

Elizabeth Taylor ... Herself (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy ... Himself (archive footage)

Max von Sydow ... Himself

Shelley Winters ... Herself (archive footage)

Warren Beatty ... Himself

Frank Capra ... Himself

John Huston ... Himself
Rouben Mamoulian ... Himself
Joseph L. Mankiewicz ... Himself
Alan J. Pakula ... Himself (as Alan Pakula)

Fred Zinnemann ... Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pandro S. Berman ... Himself

Yvonne Howell ... Herself (as Yvonne Stevens)
Ivan Moffat ... Himself
Hermes Pan ... Himself
Hal Roach ... Himself
Irwin Shaw ... Himself
Jack Sher ... Himself

George Stevens ... Himself (archive footage)
George Stevens Jr. ... Himself - Narrator (voice)
Toni Vellani ... Himself
Charles Coburn ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brandon De Wilde ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Fontaine ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oliver Hardy ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Van Heflin ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stan Laurel ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hattie McDaniel ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Victor McLaglen ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
George Stevens Jr. 
 
Produced by
George Stevens Jr. .... producer
Antonio Vellani .... associate producer
Susan Winslow .... co-producer
 
Original Music by
Carl Davis 
 
Cinematography by
Harrison Engle 
Tom Hurwitz 
 
Film Editing by
Catherine Shields 
 
Production Management
Gail Schumann .... production manager
 
Sound Department
Steve Nelson .... sound mixer
A.C. Warden .... sound editor
 
Editorial Department
Michael Day .... associate editor
Fred Kepler .... assistant editor
A.C. Warden .... associate editor
Susan Winslow .... supervising editor
 
Music Department
Carl Davis .... conductor
Kevin Townend .... orchestrator
 
Other crew
Caroline Stevens .... researcher
 

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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min | USA:58 min (PBS American Masters version.)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:G

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Tribute to George Stevens narrated by his son..., 22 June 2009
6/10
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

This lengthy tribute to director George Stevens tries to cover almost too much ground during its one hour and fifty minutes. It even includes the color war footage that he took during the liberation of Paris in WWII and a visit to Germany and the concentration camps. While all of that footage is very interesting, a more compact look at Stevens' career would have been preferable.

His early films interested me the most--especially the film that brought out the kid in all of us--GUNGA DIN. A generous amount of film clips from this film makes for enjoyable viewing, as does the long musical clip from SWING TIME with Astaire and Rogers cavorting around the highly stylized B&W art deco set.

Other enjoyable clips from THE MORE THE MERRIER (the famous love scene where he let Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea improvise), WOMAN OF THE YEAR (Katharine Hepburn trying to make breakfast for Spencer Tracy), and earliest of all, ALICE ADAMS with the breakfast scene that includes Hattie McDaniel as a hapless maid hired to impress Fred MacMurray.

Other clips from A PLACE IN THE SUN, GIANT, SHANE and THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK take up precious time but are worth viewing. And then a sad look at one of his box-office and critical failures--THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.

Summing up: A not too objective look at his father's career by a doting son, but a tribute that is indeed deserved.

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