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Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs. The cast also included Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven.
Based on Thornton Wilder's play, the film follows the lives of two families in a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. The Stage Manager guides the audience through the story, from birth to death, with a cast of notable actors and a nomination for six Oscars.
- (3K)
- Drama, Family, Romance
- Sam Wood
- 1940-05-24
Thorton Wilder's touching story of life in a New Hampshire town stars William Holden and Martha Scott as a young couple looking to the future. Six Oscar nominations went to director Sam Wood's ...
- 88 min
- 25.6K
- The Film Detective
Dec 31, 2014 · Our Town is a 1940 film adaptation of a play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven. It was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder.
- 87 min
- 86.2K
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater.
- James Naughton
- 120 min
- 2
For the residents of Grover's Corners, daily life proceeds at a predictable pace. The milkman (Stuart Erwin) arrives like clockwork, the neighbors perpetually gossip about nothing and children ...
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- Drama
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Our Town (1940) was director Sam Wood's sensitive film treatment of one of the theater's best-loved examples of Americana, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about life in the fictional New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners in the years 1900 through 1913. Over the decades, the movie has won much praise for its outstanding production ...
