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049			_aSBIM
050	0	4	_aPN1995 _b.A453 1935
245	1	0	_aA midsummer night's dream /directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt.
260			_a[Place of publication not identified] : _bWarner Brothers, _c(c)1935.
300			_a1 DVD (approximately 143 min.) : _bsound, black and white
336			_atwo-dimensional moving image _btdi _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aAdapted from the play by William Shakespeare.
500			_aCountry of origin : United States.
500			_aNorth American cinema.
520	0		_aJames Cagney and Mickey Rooney romping in a Shakespearian fairyland? This could only be A Midsummer Night's Dream, Warner Brothers' 1935 attempt at classing up the proletarian studio. The legendary German stage director Max Reinhardt had produced the play at the Hollywood Bowl to enchanted, sold-out audiences, and Warners decided to hand Reinhardt the keys to the studio (along with fellow Germans William Dieterle, co-director, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who adapted Mendelssohn's music). Reinhardt created an eye-popping phantasmagoria, a movie laced with sparkling sequins, flying fairies, and moon-kissed forests. As for the words, Reinhardt had a collection of Warners studio players, notably James Cagney as Bottom, whose playing of "Pyramus and Thisby" with Joe E. Brown is perhaps the movie's comic high point. The other actors are decidedly varied, and they tend to be overwhelmed by the production design. Not so Mickey Rooney, whose performance as Puck is a feral, antic act of imagination (he was 14 during filming); picture a boy raised by wolves who somehow memorized Shakespeare. His Puck growls and screams and mocks the drama of the other characters, a little postmodern imp before his time. (Critic David Thomson called this Puck "truly inhuman, one of the cinema's most arresting pieces of magic"). The rest of the movie comes to earth with some regularity, but it's a one-of-a-kind production, and a reminder of the lavish, unreal possibilities within a movie studio. --Robert Horton
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655		0	_aComedy _vFeature.
655		0	_aRomance _vFeature.
655		1	_aKids & Family DVDs.
700	1		_aDieterle, William, _d1893-1972, _edrt
700	1		_aReinhardt, Max, _d1873-1943, _edrt
700	1		_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616.
942			_cDVD _D _eAZ _hPN _i2020-2021 _k13.99 _m1935 _RGeneral _O113-0600824-3095444 _n0000 _QMM _bN/A _w12.99
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell