Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

vincentlynch-moonoi I don't know which film I thought this was when I ordered it, but I was wrong. Nevertheless, I was glad to watch it because I have always liked Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon when they performed together, and I always liked Errol Flynn. This film starts out a bit stuffy, but rapidly improves once you get a ways into it.Before giving details, I should mention that as available, as of this writing, this is one of those DVDs that is DVD-R. Fortunately, the master print is in good condition, and while not as crisp as one might prefer, the color is quite well preserved, so it's enjoyable to watch from a technical perspective.There's an excellent cast involved in this film, and an interesting plot. Errol Flynn is the younger generation of a rich and staid British family; he appears to be a bit of a dandy to the older generation, but in reality, he's as stuffy as they are. He falls in love with a lowly piano teacher (Greer Garson), but is it love or does he simply want to own a wife? Can he hold a marriage together without emotional love? Meanwhile the even younger family member -- Janet Leigh -- is being courted by a poor, young architect (Robert Young). Young falls in love with Greer Garson, and wends his way into her life! And always around the edges is Flynn's brother, the disinherited painter Walter Pidgeon. While it may sound like just another romantic triangle, it is much more involved than that! The casting here is very interesting. Swashbuckler Errol Flynn is playing the incredibly stuffy man of wealth who makes his older stuffy family look downright animated; he is as cold as cold can be. Surprisingly, after disliking him for almost the entire film, toward the end of the movie the sympathy of most viewers will be will him. On the other hand, Walter Pidgeon plays the gentle-hearted artist brother quite well. Of course, Greer Garson is perfect (as she almost always was) as the piano teacher who married into wealth but is now pursued by two other men. I was never particularly impressed with Janet Leigh, although she does her job well here. Wonderful Harry Davenport is along as the family patriarch...and he is as wonderful as ever in what was one of his final three films (he died later in the year this was released).This was clearly a well heeled production. Sets and costumes are first rate. And, while it could stand a digital upgrade, the color has stood up very nicely.A very sold "7", and recommended for its interesting plot, a surprising plot twist, and the development of the characters.

kenjha Based on the celebrated novels of Galsworthy, this lavish film focuses on a strong-willed woman who marries into a rich and powerful British family. It's a good-looking but dreary soap opera that begins to drag about half-way through. Garson is charming as usual as the woman who agrees to marry frigid Flynn, even though she doesn't love him. Pidgeon is once again paired with Garson, but he has a small role as the black sheep of the Forsyte family. Leigh is pretty and peppy. Young is not only too old to be playing Leigh's fiancé, but he's also miscast as a heartthrob. It's hard to believe that women would be fighting over someone who's so plain.

bkoganbing According to the Citadel Film Series book, The Films Of Errol Flynn, MGM and Warner Brothers did a swapping of stars for the services of the other. Errol Flynn went to MGM for a picture in return for Warner Brothers getting the services of William Powell for Life With Father. I think Powell made out far better in the deal than Flynn did with an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his film.Not that Errol Flynn was bad in That Forsyte Woman, in fact his casting as the proper and stuffy Soames Forsyte was quite a revelation. But the movie-going public simply wouldn't buy it. Errol, not the dashing hero with sword in hand and cape over the other shoulder was not accepted. If That Forsyte Woman had been made a decade earlier and for Warner Brothers, Flynn would have been perfect to play Robert Young's role of Philip Bossiney.Flynn is married to Greer Garson and is guardian of niece Janet Leigh. Leigh is the daughter of black sheep brother in this proper Victorian family, Walter Pidgeon. Pidgeon years ago ran away with his niece's governess after the family did not permit the recently widowed Pidgeon to marry her. Back in those days proper English families did things like that.Anyway the rather staid marriage of Flynn and Garson gets a jolt when opportunistic Robert Young who Leigh has been keeping company with, falls for Garson and she, him. In modern times it would be a no fault divorce, but things aren't done that way in Victorian England.If there is a weakness in casting it's that of Robert Young. I'm surprised that MGM did not use someone like Peter Lawford whom they had under contract and was British besides. Greer was British, but the rest of the cast had two Americans in Young and Leigh, a Canadian in Pidgeon and Flynn was Australian. Young was older than Errol Flynn and just doesn't come over as the young opportunistic lover.Garson of course is the perfect English lady who usually wan't allowed dalliances by MGM, but she's fine here. Greer wrote the introduction to the Films Of Errol Flynn and she says that she found Flynn to be a perfect gentleman and anxious to prove himself a serious actor.He did in many ways in That Forsyte Saga. He was a prisoner of his own legend at this point.

didi-5 I think there are two ways to look at MGM's 'That Forsyte Woman', an 'adaptation' of John Galsworthy's 'Forsyte Saga' (book one), the one in which Soames meets Irene.First, you can compare it with the story as written, and find it full of holes, omissions, misinterpretations, and tacked-on happy endings (a wedding for June?). All that is strong and perceptive about the book (and its subsequent TV adaptation in the 1960s) is omitted, from the subplot on Jo Forsyte's marriage and dismissal from the clan, the humour of the minor characters, especially the older Forsyte brothers and sisters, and the central cauldron of emotion between Soames and his young wife Irene, culminating in his forcing of conjugal rights and her leaving for pastures new, and the subsequent suicide of her young lover. In this light, 'That Forsyte Woman' is a travesty and an over-simplification. It is woefully miscast - Robert Young and Greer Garson are too old for Bosinney and Irene - and poorly scripted, with no concept of what the Forsytes stood for (the glory and tradition of the old England).Or, you can wallow in it as a fine old melodrama from Hollywood's finest studio, with the most expensive casting and Technicolor lavished upon it. Pared down to that oldest of love stories - girl meets boy, but he's not the right boy - and with a bit of tragedy thrown in at the end. There's some humour - notably with old Jolyon (Harry Davenport) wishing he doesn't have to dance with old ladies - and a nice bookend of plot involving the gift of paintings - and as an afternoon matinée film, standing on its own, it succeeds remarkably, with the protagonists Soames and Irene parting on good terms.It's a case of take your pick and watch the film from whatever angle you please.