Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 123movies

Watch: Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 123movies, Full Movie Online – Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom ‘Boss’ Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago..
Plot: Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom “Boss” Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 7,884
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	53/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 91 Popularity: 10.049 | TMDB

Reviews:

Magnificent Melodrama
Tennessee Williams’s play is adapted for film by Director Richard Brooks. A wonderful cast brings this dramatic Southern soap opera to a sublime level the lead role of Chance Wayne given a sizzling performance by Paul Newman, a conniving, charming gigolo who keeps trying – and failing – to succeed at his chosen profession.

Chance returns to his hometown towing a has been drug addicted alcoholic movie star, Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine Page). Chance comes with the purpose of taking his old love, Heavenly (Shirley Knight) away from her obsessed father, ‘Boss’ Finley (Ed Begley) so the three of them can hit Hollywood together and Alexandra will help him get his first big break in the movies.

Chance’s homecoming goes off like nothing he has planned, he left a lot of damage when he took off before. Heavenly’s dad, who, along with Finley, Jr. (Rip Torn), has a burning hatred for Chance along with a plot for revenge.

The film does not evolve much from the stage play and appears stagey throughout.

Geraldine Page is the only one who transferred from the original play to the film and her performances is completely overwrought but she manages to carry it off and steals every scene she is in. She puts one in mind of Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. The part of Alexandra is made for her.

There is a beautiful score and Paul Newman is stunning in the role.

The only complaint I would have (and thus a lower rating of 7 out of 10) would be the significant change both to the story of what happened to Heavenly after Chance disappeared the first time and to the ending of the film, due to censorship rules. Far far more heartbreaking and tragic than depicted here.

And it is such a shame we will never be able to see the alternative ending with this incredible cast. In my opinion it would have put the film into the all time great list.

7 out of 10. A must-see.

Your home town is smaller minded than you think!
You can’t go home again, as life goes on without you and the small minded people, once your friends, secretly resent you or envy you angrily for having the strength and courage to move on. That’s what reckless bad boy Paul Newman finds out as he stops through with his alcoholic movie star benefactor (Geraldine Page), finding that nothing has changed but the date and the decrease in the size of the small minds. Town boss Ed Begley may act all cordial at first meeting, but he has a score to settle with Newman in regards to his daughter Shirley Knight.

This outstanding film version of Tennessee Williams’ great play is fraught with drama, sexual violence and power struggles, and one of the greatest ensembles ever assembled. It’s a reunion for Williams, Newman, Madeline Sherwood (as you’ve never seen him before!), producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks from “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. This isn’t polished family drama, but a soap opera epic of how one man in control (Begley) of a small community can be a dangerous thing, and how all the yes men around him obviously long for his downfall.

In one of the greatest years for leading ladies, Geraldine Page is simply outstanding and her faded movie star shows her off to be a versatile and glamorous actress, combining character actress in her characterization in playing someone obviously older than she was at the time. It is said she was based on various faded movie stars (particularly Joan Crawford) but Page makes her very multi-faceted in spite of the character being a destructive lush. Newman is sexy as always, and instills his bad boy with subtle heart. Knight, who could have gone onto play the type of roles Page was excelling in, and makes her ingenue quite more interesting than the namby pamby bubblehead she could have been.

Sweet Mildred Dunnock, the original Big Mama in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, takes a small part and adds a halo around it as Knight’s spinster aunt. Sherwood, as Begley’s abused mistress, is simply divine: gorgeous, sultry and tragic. You won’t see any of “Sister Woman” or “Reverand Mother” here, making me want to see more of her. Begley, outwardly boisterous and charming, is a truly evil character, and his Oscar for this part was deeply deserved. I absolutely despised on every level his arrogant character, but if I were to have seen him in the play, I would have given him a standing ovation. Flashbacks to previous incidents don’t distract from the current material, and a few fantasy sequences add interesting elements in the dreams of the disillusioned characters who seemingly have no hope. Great drama keeps you involved. Great theater will have you overjoyed. Outstanding theater and film may have you weep.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr (120 min), 1 hr 46 min (106 min) (Australia)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Richard Brooks
Writer Tennessee Williams, Richard Brooks
Actors Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Lenses
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,275 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm