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The Cobweb (Remaster)

Richard Widmark (Actor), Lauren Bacall (Actor), Vincente Minnelli (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
IMDb6.3/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC
Contributor John Kerr, Gloria Grahame, Richard Widmark, Vincente Minnelli, Tommy Rettig, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish, Oscar Levant, Susan Strasberg, Lauren Bacall See more
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 4 minutes

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Step inside "the Castle," a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife (Gloria Grahame). A colleague (Charles Boyer) with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife. Now add Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant and subplots of love, life and derangement and you have the entanglements of The Cobweb. Some critics gleefully skewered the film's labored storyline about patient involvement in the choice of library draperies, but pay no heed. With its top cast and Vincente Minnelli's command of color and melodrama, this film is popcorn for fans of soaps.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.5 x 5.35 x 7.5 inches; 2.33 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Vincente Minnelli
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ July 8, 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004KO1HG8
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Con Harrigan Emmons
    5.0 out of 5 stars Patients Run Asylum
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2019
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    Ah, those crazy 1950’s! Where every town in the country is just one more Peyton Place of hormones, cigarettes, draperies. Where children act like adults, adults act like children. Where the world is a clinic and all are patients - even the doctors - especially the doctors. Where everyone likes Ike but no one likes the face in the mirror. Where Freudism and its easy answers replace religion and its easy answers. Where D. W. Griffith’s favorite actress is on hand and reaches the depth of loneliness when she offers Richard Widmark a spot of tea. Where Vincent Minnelli is on hand and gloriously turns CinemaScope into a color-saturated ersatz paradise. Result: masterpiece.
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  • Plane Jane
    5.0 out of 5 stars NOT a Noir, But a Classic 50s Melodrama
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2018
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    Some reviewers here have called this movie a Noir, but it's definitely not. It's a huge, lavish, garishly colorful, sometimes overacted, star-studded melodrama of the type that were so well done in the 1950s. Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall are wonderful as a shrink and an art therapist who agonize over the treatment of a sensitive and disturbed young artist "Stevie", while everyone at the mental hospital becomes involved in an absurdly serious crisis over a new set of a drapes for the patients' day room. Things really get out of hand, but fans of 50s melodrama will love it.
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  • Mabes
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie for nostalgia buffs
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2012
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    The CobwebThe largest number of famous actors I have seen in any movie. I would call it film noir. The characters are varied, the plot has twists that are at once dramatic & subdued at times suprising. Vincent Minnelli certainly could make the choice of curtains in to a big deal! It was unusual to see some of the actors in these rolls. Gloria Graham (It's a Wonderful Life) is in amazing character, she makes the movie portraying the director's wife. Tommy Rettig (Lassie) is so sweet as Richard Widmark's (Judgment at Nuremberg) wonderful son. Widmark is the director of the sanitarium. Oscar Levant the famous composer plays one of the patients also and does a beautiful job. Fay Wray (King Kong), John Kerr (South Pacific), Lillian Gish (The Birth of a Nation), Charles Boyer (Gaslight), all top actors of the day are at their best. The doctors and wife of the sanatorium director obviously, perhaps predictably, belong in the hospital more than the patients do, but Widmark plays the most intelligent upright caring father and friend to all. Lauren Bacall has a smaller roll than she had during her Bogie years, but is charming just the same. The movie is a bit slow and restrained but interesting. I streamed the movie, the film quality was not good, I had to strain my eyes to see the actors faces. I wish I could have been able to see them better. What a gem!
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  • CWP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Insanity
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2019
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    Everyone is nuts in this film and that's one of the reasons I love watching it. The interesting and talented cast also make it a guilty pleasure. It might be the only big production film that features the selection of a set of curtains at its dramatic core. I'm also a pushover for Lillian Gish and Gloria Grahame and they are wonderfully nutty here. I would really like to know what attracted Vincente Minnelli to this project. The cobwebs or curtains of the mind I guess.
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  • Dr. Greg A. Grove
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Cobweb DVD
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
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    I first encountered this film on TV and was so impressed by the crescendo of dissonance and disruption to the life of the main character's work as a psychiatrist in a classy, upscale mental institution. He is thrown one problem after another, and nearly all of the problems swirl around the most outrageous conflict: new drapes for the library. The acting is convincing, the theme well-developed in a typical Hollywood 1950s style. Lush color photography and imaginative yet realistically conceived sets. Your head will be spinning by the end of the film, and it will take another complete viewing to cement all the loose DSM strands left dangling.
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  • Paul Morel
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Cobweb is just that!!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2018
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    Unusual film about a mental hospital for the rich centering around what kind of drapes should be bought for the downstairs rooms. It sounds odd and it is, as this Kafkaesque nightmare unfolds. Great photography, deft use of cinemascope, and a winning cast, especially Gloria Grahame, Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark, Lillian Gish, and Charles Boyer. John Kerr as a teenage patient is way over the top, and it works in this film.

    A must see!!
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  • ComfyShoeMaven
    1.0 out of 5 stars Awful!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023
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    Someone recommended this movie to me, and I rented it because it sounded intriguing. It has some very good actors--Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, and Gloria Graham--but even they couldn't do much with the awful writing and directing.

    Don't waste your time and money on this movie when there are some actual good movies out there.
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  • Swissangel
    4.0 out of 5 stars Needs a official remastered release on Blu-Ray
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2011
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    This movie is a great drama with a outstanding Cast (Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, John Kerr, Lilian Gish, Oscar Levant), great camera work (filmed it Cinemascope) and direction (famous from his musical "Meet me in St. Louis" and other dramas "Home from the Hill") and great script with very good dialogues.

    Also starring in this movie: Tommy Rettig and Fay Wray (famous as first Scream Queen in "King Kong" 1933 and "Mystery of the Wax Museum".

    Movie is remastered (!), on DVD-R Product, without any bonus-features or subtitles.

    Like very much John Kerr's acting.

    P.S.: got my DVD Cover shortly signed by John Kerr :-)
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  • June Morley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Those Damned Drapes
    Reviewed in Australia on April 6, 2022
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    This was a great Movie, once you got past the drapes for the Library. You can watch this 2 hour movie, & despair, that you have just watched 2 hours of your life slip away, you can’t get back. After all it was ALL about drapes for the Library, wasn’t it ? No this is about the Doctors, Staff, Patients, & families who work or have a connection to a large upmarket, progressive Psychiatric Institution, known as The Castle. The main players are Doctor Stewart McIver ( Richard Widmark) Doctor Dev Devereux ( Charles Boyer) Meg Reinhardt (Lauren Bacall)Activities Manager. Miss Victoria Inch (Lilian Gish) Financial Manager. Disturbed Patients Stevie Holte ( John Kerr ) Sue Brett (Susan Strasberg ) Mr Capp (Oscar Levant ) Doctor McIvers beautiful & neglected wife ( Gloria Grahame ) & many others. The big question here is, who are the most disturbed ? The Doctors, Staff, or Patients ?
    The one certainty is they all have lonely, unfulfilled lives, & their unhappiness, seems to cause them all to become unbalanced to some extent over new drapes requested for the Hospital Library.
    Miss Inch feels she should be ordering the drapes due to her penny pinching way of running the clinic, & saving them money. Doctor McIvers wife Karen decides to order some pretty, but expensive drapes herself, unknown to her husband, as she feels her husband will show her more love, & interest, if she inserts herself into the business of the Clinic. Her husband feels she should stay out of Clinic business, & be a homebody looking after their two children. Their marriage appears doomed, but Karen loves her husband, & is prepared to do what it takes to save her marriage.
    Megs husband & son were killed in a car wreck 4 years earlier, & this is her first attempt to reclaim her life, with her new job at the Clinic.
    Doctor (Dev) is an alcoholic. & womaniser, & is of little use to the Clinic now, where he was previously the Director.
    Stevie is an adolescent suicidal patient, due to his Father deserting the family when he was young, & the recent death of his Mother.
    Sue Brett has a incapacitating phobia.
    Mr Capp is just a certified nut, with a Mother fixation.
    Meg & Stewart, along with the Patients decide it would be good for the patients to design & make the drapes themselves. For this therapy they request Stevie ( a Painter) to paint the designs on the drapes, ready for the Patients to make up. Stevie is overjoyed at this proposal, & gets busy painting designs.
    Meanwhile Miss Inch has ordered the cheapest she can find, & Karen has found beautiful expensive fabric with the help of the head of the Hospital Board, & is having this fabric made up into beautiful drapes. Doctor Dev is also helping Karen in her endeavour.
    Meanwhile Stewart is neglecting Karen, who begs him to see her as desirable. He can’t or worse still won’t. He is busy falling in love with Meg. When Karen finds out he has spent the night with Meg, her fury causes her stealthily at night to hang her drapes up in the Library, as she knows Stewart, & Meg are about to have the Patients drapes finished & ready to hang.
    Stevie happens to see these drapes in the morning, & has a meltdown, he saw his drapes as his salvation.He heads for the river to commit suicide. The drama of the search of the river for Steves body, enters 2 days, & causes massive pain, & upset at the Clinic. Karen is devastated at the part she has played in this drama.
    Meg & Stewart are down at the river in the pouring rain watching the search. Meg tells Stewart she had a dream the previous night, of she, Stewart, & Stevie as a family. This is the second time this has been mentioned by them. Meg seems to see Stevie, as a substitute son, for her lost son. Stewart tells Meg he doesn’t know what his decision should be regarding her, & Karen. He asks Megs advice on what he should do? Meg is incensed at his indecision, & immediately ends their affair.
    Next, we see Stewart & Karen having a long conversation in the woods, where both agree to try & save their marriage. They head home in their car, to find a disheveled collapsing Stevie waiting in their garage. He staggers out & collapses into Stewart’s arms. He say’s, I kept my promises I came back, didn’t I ? I’ll never do that again. Karen & Stewart are overjoyed to see him, carry him into their lounge where Karen wraps him in the expensive drapes she had made for the Library, & Stewart had torn down in a fury 2 days earlier. Stewart looks on approvingly as Karen tends to Stevie, & attempts to give him milk. Stevie sleepily peers down at the drapes swaddling him, & says “ I seem to keep running into these things, as he drifts off to sleep.
    It appears as though Stevie may have found the family he has been desperately searching for.

    The trivial act of drapes for the library, have changed lives, almost caused a death, & left a lot of wiser people in their wake.
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  • Melina Livermore
    5.0 out of 5 stars perfect condition. Just as described
    Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2014
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    Brand new, perfect condition. Just as described, exactly what I wanted.
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  • Lucas2022
    5.0 out of 5 stars This dvd does play in standard European players.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2015
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    First of all, this dvd does play in standard european dvds and you do not need a universal player. Two other reviews mentioned that the dvd wouldn't play on European players but maybe Amazon put together, as they do so often , reviews about dvds from different studios or edition

    That cleared, this is a really excellent 1955 film more than worth ordering. It was beautifully shot in eastmancolor. You will see just a glimpse of the original film in this dvd but some of the beautiful colours and texture did survive and they are a wonder.

    It is a very "cosy" film and even the psychiatric clinic which is the center of the film is a rather nice and cosy place. There is a very cosy concert hall in the small town where the story happens and I just wish I could had listen to chamber orchestras there.

    But this film is also made by great acting and great stars: Richard Widmark, who I remember from western movies; the great French actor Charles Boyer; Lauren Bacall, moving and looking like a leopard. The film also has great stars who were already from the past of the cinema at the time of this movie: Lilian Gish and Fay Wray, who played the blonde in the first "King Kong".

    They say it is a remastered copy but they didn't do a very good work and it seems that Warner used a simpler kind of dvd. But the sound is very good and the image is good too, although it has some funny things now and then. But nothing to spoil the pleasure that it is to watch this old fashioned and so well made film.

    The film doesn't have subtitles, what is a shame. But at least the sound is good and I could understand every single word without any effort.
    I was going to rate this dvd as four stars because of the subtitles and the poor remastering but I opted for five stars just to call the attention to the fact that the dvd does play in standard European players and many customers would be missing the opportunity to watch this excellent film because they don't have a multi region dvd player .

    I would recommend to anyone who likes films from the 1980s backwards to buy a multi region blu ray player because if you don't have one you are missing lots of good films. But this is another matter. The copy I have is the one with "remastered edition" written in red on the top of the case. This copy is not an American region only.

    Amazon is saying that this dvd " requires a North American or multi-region DVD player" but this information is not correct. I've just watched the film on a pal, european dvd player.
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  • Mrs. D. Hancock
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cobweb [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2011
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    This is my all time favourite movie. Unfortunately it is for US viewing only - Region 1 - US import. I would dearly like to get an European version. I bought this for my Sister as a present who lives in the USA. Anybody knows where can I get a copy of this movie to view in the UK?
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  • murivic
    4.0 out of 5 stars Only for "died in the wool" Widmark fans
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2016
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    Rather strange content for a film. Some late great stars in it.
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