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The Warner Archive Collection Salutes The Golden Globe and Academy Award Winning Director, Vincente Minnelli
As we enter the motion picture award season recognizing today's most talented artists, the Warner Archive Collection remembers the work of one of the greatest, The Golden Globe and Academy Award Winning Director Vincente Minnelli. Forever remembered for films such as Gigi and An American Paris, next week the Warner Archive presents a few of his forgotten gems including Two Weeks In Another Town, Tea and Sympathy, The Reluctant Debutante and more. These films will be available for the first time on DVD, starting Tuesday, January 18, only at the WarnerArchive.com.
TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN - stars Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson
In 1952, star Kirk Douglas, director Vincente Minnelli, producer John Houseman and screenwriter Charles Schnee teamed for what many consider the greatest drama ever made about Hollywood: The Bad and the Beautiful. Ten years later, they took another powerful insider's look at the movie business, this time adapting a book by Irwin Shaw. Douglas portrays has-been screen idol Jack Andrus. Just out of a sanitarium, Jack grabs at a small role in a movie shot in Rome by a director (Edward G. Robinson) whose career is also on the skids. When the director falls ill, Jack takes over, realizing this is his last shot at personal and professional redemption. Trenchant, confrontational, intensified by Minnelli's genius for color, Two Weeks in Another Town captures the passion of creative people facing the abyss.