Mark Twain Tonight
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769718910
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769718914
Label: KULTUR VIDEO
Manufacturer: KULTUR VIDEO
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: KULTUR VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 30, 1999
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 8663
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1967
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Come meet Mark Twain. OK, true, the humorist has been dead for more years than we care to remember, and not many of us around today were alive to hear what he sounded like. But Hal Holbrook is so spectacular in his one-man performance that you could swear you were listening to Twain himself. The gravelly voice, the lined face, the slow shuffle, and cigar-induced throat clearings seem so natural that you'll have difficulty recognizing Holbrook beneath the white suit, the gray hair, and the handlebar mustache.
Mark Twain Tonight! began as a Broadway show in the 1960s and was filmed as a CBS special in 1967. Yet you'd never know it, because the humor, which is more than a century old, is still laugh-out-loud funny today. Twain--I mean, Holbrook--gives a monologue that is rambling, intelligent, and humorous as he culls together commentary from a variety of Twain sources. From dachshund hounds, politics, and patriotism to cigar smoking, memory loss, and religion, this 90-minute video leaps from subject to subject as we're entertained by material that's as fresh today as it was when it was written in the 1800s. --Jenny Brown
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- Mark Twain Tonight.Long before Spalding Gray brought one-man performance monologues into the mainstream, 40-year-old ... Read More
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- "Pure" Twain !!If you love a good laugh and thought provoking ideas mixed together, then buy this DVD....It is "pure" ... Read More
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- Not his best material, but still a great performance...Those of us old enough to have seen Holbrook do his one-man Twain show in the 1960's, and to have owned ... Read More
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- Hal Holbrook mesmerizes as Mark TwainMuch as Mark Twain had to do in his life, Hal Holbrook mesmerizes audiences with his portrayal of Mark Twain, ... Read More
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- He channels Mark TwainOutstanding theatre perfectly translated to the small screen. I first heard Holbroook's Twain in the early 60s, ... Read More
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