Our Town (1940)
Our Town (1940)


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Cast & Crew.

William Holden
Georges Gibbs

Martha Scott
Emily Webb

Fay Bainter
Mrs Gibbs

Beulah Bondi
Mrs Webb

Thomas Mitchell
Doc Gibbs

Guy Kibbee
Mr. Webb

Frank Craven
Mr. Morgan / Writer

Stuart Erwin
Howie Newsome

Ruth Tobey
Rebecca Gibbs

Doro Merande
Mrs. Soames

Charles Trowbridge
Dr. Ferguson, the wedding minister

Philip Wood
Simon Stimson

Arthur Allen
Professor Willard

Douglas Gardner
Wally Webb

Spencer Charters
Constable

Dix Davis
Joe Crowell

Tom Drake
Best Man at Wedding

Dan White
Wedding Guest Talking to Constable

Tim Davis
Si Crowell

Sam Wood
Director

Thornton Wilder
Writer

Bert Glennon
Director of Photography

Aaron Copland
Original Music Composer

William Cameron Menzies
Production Design

Lewis J. Rachmil
Art Direction

Sherman Todd
Editor

Sol Lesser
Producer

Edward P. Lambert
Costume Design

Harry Chandlee
Writer

Donn Stokes

Paula Lane

Ralph Gilliam
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Details.
Release DateMay 24, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsNew Hampshire, United States
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This Movie Is About.
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Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs. The cast also included Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven. It was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder, and directed by Sam Wood.
The film was a faithful reproduction of the play except for two significant changes: the film used scenery, whereas the play had not; the events of the third act, which in the play revolve around the death of one of the main characters, were turned into a dream from which she awakens, allowing her to resume a normal life. Producer Sol Lesser worked with Wilder in creating these changes. Wilder wrote Lesser that "Emily should live.... In a movie you see the people so close to that a distant relation is established. In the theater they are halfway abstractions in an allegory; in the movie they are very concrete.... [I]t’s even disproportionately cruel that she die. Let her live...."
A radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theater on May 6, 1940, used the altered film ending.
The U.S. copyright of the film was not renewed after its first term expired in 1968.
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