Product Details

• Actors: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Alan Hale
• Directors: John Cromwell, Howard Higgin
• Format: Black & White, Full Screen, Mono, NTSC
• Language: 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: St. Clair Vision
• DVD Release Date: March 4, 2008
• Run Time: 153 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00133MKS8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,865 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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67 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Detective Work, May 18, 2008

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Lidash63 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bette Davis Signature Collection (DVD)

Had to search multiple sites to figure out what is on this new DVD. It has 2 of Bette's full length films, "Of Human Bondage" and "Hell's House".

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A trampy waitress and the bootlegger's girlfriend, July 29, 2008

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bette Davis Signature Collection (DVD)

ST. CLAIR's Signature Series are single DVDs that offer 2 or 3 films the featured artist appeared in. All of these movies are public domain status. Sometimes, the "star" is a supporting player or even has a minor uncredited role (as in the ROBERT MITCHUM SIGNATURE COLLECTION). Such is the case here also, where Miss Davis is 2nd and 4th billed.

SYNOPSES--

OF HUMAN BONDAGE-- Struggling artist with a physical infirmity enrolls in medical school. He meets and falls in love with an unschooled waitress, which severely complicates his life. She abandons him for others on two different occasions, returning only when she's in trouble. Based on the Somerset Maugham story.

HELL'S HOUSE-- Made at the tail end of Prohibition, it's the story of a youngster who idolizes a bootlegger. He refuses to testify against his friend and is sent to reform school, where he meets a boy with a severe heart condition. Bette has little to do in this one. Written and directed by Howard Higgin.

THE BARBARA STANWYCK SIGNATURE COLLECTION contains "Meet John Doe," "The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers" and "Lady of Burlesque."

Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film research website.

(5.9) Hell's House (1932) - Pat O'Brien/Junior Durkin/Frank Coghlan Jr./Bette Davis/Emma Dunn/Charley Grapewin

(7.3) Of Human Bondage (1934) - Leslie Howard/Bette Davis/Frances Dee/Kay Johnson/Reginald Denny/Alan Hale

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BEST ACTRESS...lesser movies, March 4, 2011

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V. dehaven - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bette Davis Signature Collection (DVD)

Bette Davis is my favorite actress so usually I'm biased about buying her movies. However, I do not recommend watching her movies that were made before Jezebel, including Of Human Bondage and Hell's House. She was still a wonderful actress in that early period, but if you want to see a good movie with good quality and plot line, go get her later works:

Now, Voyager; Deception; The Letter; Dark Victory; All This and Heaven Too; Watch on the Rhine; All About Eve; The Nanny; Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte; or the all out crazy Bette movie-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?