Time of Your Life (DVD)
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Description
With screen legend Jimmy heading up the cast, brother William serving as producer, and sister Jeanne appearing as a co-star, this adaptation of the William Saroyan play was a true labour of love for the Cagney clan. Set in a seedy bar on the San Francisco waterfront, the action concerns the comings and goings of the bar's customers, as they swap stories, trade heartbreaks, and philosophise about the meaning of it all. Ward Bond, Broderick Crawford and William Bendix also star.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 5030462050607
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 1 Jul 2002
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- DVD
- Genre
- Classic
- Region
- Region 0
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Quantum Leap
- Extras
- Interactive Menus
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age Restriction
- U
- Supply Source
- UK
Movie
- Title
- Time of Your Life
- Tagline
- FROM THE GREAT STAGE PLAY!
- Release Year
- 1948
- Running Time
- 100 min
- Color
- B&W
- Categories
- Comedies / 1940s / Character Study / Recommended / Theatrical Release / Vintage / Dramas
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Ratings
-
- IMDb
- 6.3
- Rotten Tomatoes®
- 50% 50%
- The Movie DB
- 61%
- Overview
- Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
- Synopsis
- H.C. Potter supplies heart-tugging direction in the film version of William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning ensemble piece about the various characters who populate Nick's Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, which is actually a waterfront dive.The Saloon is in the toughest section of San Francisco. Enter Joe (James Cagney), a champagne-soaked "philosopher" with a credo that mixes equal parts cherish-the-moment and bottoms-up. Parading around Joe, who showers love on his fellow inhabitants, are a bull-slinging American Indian, a would-be dancer, a prostitute named Kitty (Jeanne Cagney) who dreams of white picket fences and a lawn, and Joe's handyman, Tom (Wayne Morris). These and other colorful people espouse their hopes and fears, right until the barkeeper announces Last Call. The comedy has been heightened in the film but Saroyan's devout love of common folk shines through. Much of the original dialogue from the play remains in the film.
- Notes
- Theatrical Release : September 3, 1948
William Saroyan refused to accept the Pulitzer, believing that businessmen shouldn't judge art.
- Poster
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- H.C. Potter
- Star
- James Barton / William Bendix / Ward Bond / James Cagney / Jeanne Cagney / Broderick Crawford / Paul Draper / James Lydon / Wayne Morris / Gale Page
- Co-Star
- Jimmy Lydon
- Screenwriter
- Nathaniel Curtis / William Saroyan
- Composer
- Carmen Dragon
- Producer
- William Cagney
- Director of Photography
- James Wong Howe / Joseph A. Valentine
- Editor
- Walter Hannemann / Truman Wood / Truman K. Wood
- Story
- William Saroyan
- Art Director
- Wiard Ihnen
- Writer
- Nathaniel Curtis