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Band of Angels (2007)

Clark Gable , Yvonne Decarlo , Raoul Walsh  |  NR |  DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Clark Gable, Yvonne Decarlo, Sidney Poitier, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Rex Reason
  • Directors: Raoul Walsh
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: January 30, 2007
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005JP4J
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,555 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Band of Angels" on IMDb

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Sidney Poitier, in the beginning of his career, fires up the screen in the Civil-War-era bodice-ripper Band of Angels. The movie follows Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo, later on The Munsters), a Southern belle whose fortunes fall when her father dies and family secrets come to light. She ends up under the protection of Hamish Bond (Clark Gable, close to the end of his long, remarkable career and still radiating an easy, charismatic masculinity), a plantation owner with secrets of his own. For much of the movie, slavery and the Civil War are just a colorful backdrop for a turgid romance--but just when you're ready to write the movie off, a scene unexpectedly digs into something more emotionally and politically complex. Poitier plays Bond's plantation foreman; every time he appears, Band of Angels turns into something fierce and promising. That promise never fully takes hold--Clark Gable is the movie's hero, not Poitier--but those crackling scenes (combined with a surprisingly sexual frankness in a 1957 feature) make Band of Angels more than just an embarrassing collection of manly swaggers, flashing eyes, and lugubrious spirituals. --Bret Fetzer

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In an attempt to carry on in his great Rhett Butler tradition, Gone With The Wind star Clark Gable once again flexes his muscular charms in another Civil War-era movie about the torrid romance between a plantation owner and a half-caste beauty. Directed by Raoul Walsh, and also starring Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier, the film is highlighted by a stunning musical score by Gone with the Wind composer Max Steiner.

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83 of 89 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I don't understand why this film isn't better known June 15, 2004
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Band of Angels is a very well-written screenplay about the oddities of race in America. I would have to compare it with "To Kill a Mockingbird" only I think Band of Angels is more thought provoking.

The plot involves a pre-Civil War Southern belle (whose father has sent her to school in the north which should give you a hint) who returns to Kentucky when her father falls ill. She arrives to see him being buried, and immediately afterwards hears first that her father was bankrupt and all the slaves will be sold and then that she herself is the child of a slave woman and therefore she too will be sold. It seems her father had an affair with a mulatto slave and raised the child as if the mother had been white and married to him. He has (somewhat unbelievably) concealed this from his child, who doesn't understand why her mother is buried outside the family cemetery. Our beautifully-dressed belle ends up being literally sold down the river -- she leaves pleasant Kentucky to be sold on a New Orleans auction block. (The further south you got, the worse conditions were: the other slaves are probably going to end up on a mosquito-infested sugar cane plantation and face a much worse fate than she does, but the movie fails to make this point). It's an eye-opener how particularly shocking the slave auction is when an apparently white woman is being auctioned -- which gives a lot of insight into subliminal racism.

Although a bit dated at parts (the music at the beginning, for example, and the scenes with the slaves singing like a choir), this is a very thought-provoking and yet entertaining movie. I highly recommend it.

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64 of 68 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Film Ahead of Its Time October 6, 2000
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It would be interesting to know how audiences reacted to this movie when it was first released in 1957. I never knew that African slaves got packed into ships like sardines until I saw the miniseries "Roots," yet in this movie Clark Gable reveals the shameful story of how Africans were captured (sometimes with the help of other Africans) and packed into slave ships, and how cruelly they suffered. It is like seeing the other side of Rhett Butler, a very dark side. I don't consider this movie to be so much a romantic story as it is a story about forgiveness and the hope of a new and better era. I never knew that Sidney Poitier and Clark Gable had been in a film together, and it is a treat to see two such great actors confronting each other. Poitier plays his character superbly--he is rightfully impatient for freedom and justice, yet he knows he has to watch his step or else he will be crushed. "Gone with the Wind" seems very shallow compared to this movie.
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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars the best clark gable movie! January 10, 2000
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This is Clark Gable's best movie, aside from "Gone With The Wind". Very sharp acting, great script. A must see! You'll love it every time you watch it. This is one great, great movie!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Clark Gable and Yvonne De Carlo sizzle in colourful Southern epic
Clark Gable made a return to "Gone with the Wind" territory in 1957's BAND OF ANGELS, a lush, plush screen version of the popular novel by Robert Penn Warren ("All the King's... Read more
Published 2 days ago by Byron Kolln
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a well know movie
When people talk about Clark Gable, this movie does not come into the conversation. But I think it should. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Alan E. Neutzel
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
Both Gable and DeCarlo perform as expected..Historically interesting and some
super scenes and a plausible ending..4 more words,2 more words
Published 1 month ago by Robert Klima
4.0 out of 5 stars Know you
This was a great movie to show how people have demons within themselves. Never allow people to tell you. Who you are.
Published 1 month ago by Michelle Freeman
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Movie
It arrived promptly and was in excellent condition - no skips and jumps. I was very pleased with the DVD, because I really like this movie. Enjoy!
Published 1 month ago by Maggie162
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Looked for this particular Gable movie a long time for my mother. It is a great movie, particularly for Gable fans.
Published 2 months ago by Buddy Baxter
5.0 out of 5 stars Band of Angels
I thought this movie was great. I love every minute of it. I am going to buy the DvD to watch it over again.
Published 2 months ago by Jay R Stallings
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific !
Everything I thought it was - great acting ! Decarlo,Gable,and Poitier were magnificent.A movie that was hard to find.Great !
Published 2 months ago by amazonmann
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie
Yvonne DeCarlo was so beautiful in this movie. She and Clark Gable made a handsome couple. It is a good movie. I enjoyed it very much.
Published 3 months ago by poco
5.0 out of 5 stars Southern people and white and black issues
This movie was inspirational and I loved it. I thought how beautiful. You have to know or have someone really close to you in their 80d. Read more
Published 3 months ago by earlbuckeymoviecritique
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