Product Details

• Actors: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
• Directors: Irving Cummings
• Writers: Boris Ingster, Lamar Trotti, Milton Sperling
• Producers: Darryl F. Zanuck, Kenneth Macgowan
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303957013
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,985 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Biography!!!, October 21, 2004

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J. Snoke "classicmovieking" (Harrisburg, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Fox made a bunch of these Bio classics and they are all superb. This one ranks right up there with the rest and is fairly accurate. Henry Fonda steels this picture though. He is very funny in the few scenes he is in. A very moving story that is factual as well as entertaining. Another homeschool friendly flick...with a tad bit more romance than Tom Edison, but nothing like movies of today. An ejoyable movie for the whole family that could breed some good discussion afterwards!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Romance and drama come together in this beautiful story!, January 10, 2003

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"jesusislordoflordsandking" (Marlton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is a favorite classic! All the actors do a superb job at bringing together everything a good movie needs... suspense, romance... drama... good versus the evil businessmen... and it makes you feel good to watch it. I'm an electronics teacher and show this to my high school students who love the movie! (It is not easy to inspire kids these days!!!) I've seen it over 20 times now showing it to all my students, and still love watching it!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "WATSON, I NEED YOU"..., July 11, 2002

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"scotsladdie" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Those were the very first words spoken (and successfully received by another party) via telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, the Scotsman who invented the telephone. The tale begins in 1875. Young Alex Bell is shown eating cheese and apples while trying to send speech over copper wires. No one thinks much of this idea except the deaf daughter of one of his grudging sponsors (the deaf girl is Loretta Young). Folks were inclined to call it a toy and they kept away from it; Bell himself tended to distust it. When Bell wants an ambulance, he sends a friend out to call one. "This thing will never work" he lamented. But it did of course, and soon the Western Union was trying to claim the patent...Don Ameche does rather well here, playing Bell with surprising conviction. Henry Fonda is fine as the sensible Mr. Watson as is Charles Coburn as the methodical Mr. Hubbard. The most moving scene in the entire film is when a mute boy, who had never spoken before, enunciates the word "father" (sob!). The direction by Irving Cummings is piously sincere.