That Forsyte Woman

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Product Details

Director : Compton Bennett
Actor : Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh
Format : Import, NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 9786302308587
Product Group : Video
Release Date : 1994-12-07
UPC : 027616243737

ASIN : 6302308585

Customer Reviews

MGM costume drama at its best (2001-04-14)

THAT FORSYTE WOMAN is the film of part one of John Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga", and stars Greer Garson and Errol Flynn in two of their finest performances.

Irene (Greer Garson), reluctantly marries Soames Forsyte (Errol Flynn) a charming and genteel man. After the marriage, however, Soames shows his true colors; cold, controlling and manipulative.

Two years go by, and Irene's niece (Janet Leigh) introduces her to her beau, an architect (Robert Young). Without knowing it, Irene and the architect begin a torrid love affair that ends in tragedy..........

Stunning Oscar-nominated costumes and lush, plush sets abound in this engrossing film. Very good indeed.

A classic MGM film (2000-05-23)

"That Forsyte Woman" is the type of movie that MGM is known for-- a first rate cast, good script, excellent scenic and costume design, and top notch direction.

An adaptation of a classic novel, MGM legend Greer Garson is cast as Irene, a piano teacher who not only marries well-to-do lawyer Errol Flynn, but also into his family, the Forsytes.

At first, all seems like a perfect little Victorian era marriage, however there is a dark side to Flynn's character. Ms. Garson ends up falling for her niece's fiancee, a young architecht, played by Robert Young. Garson tries to stop Young's pursual of her, however, they both succumb to their love. When niece Janet Leigh learns of the affair between her aunt and fiancee, she does a deed that will bring turmoil to the good Forsyte family name. The film co-stars Walter Pidgeon, as Leigh's black sheep father, and Harry Davenport, as Leigh's grandfather, patriach of the Forsyte clan.

The film is a jewel in the crown of MGM and deserves a place in the classic film library of someone who appreciates Hollywood greatness.

Errol Flynn Acts (2000-05-20)

Offered his choice of the two heroes in this lavish MGM soap opera, Errol Flynn demonstrated his integrity by opting to play the unsympathetic role of Soames Forsyte. He does some really memorable work portraying the Victorian "man of property" who unwittingly loses his wife because he can't see her as anything more than a possession. In the Galsworthy novel, we only see the wife through Soames' eyes, but she is made into the protagonist of the movie, with motivations noble enough to suit tedious Greer Garson, who ends up yet again with Mr. Miniver, Walter Pidgeon. There is also, you should be warned, a poisonously bad performance by Robert Young as a dashing, dreamy architect (the role Flynn wisely refused). But from the first images of the tortured characters emerging from the Technicolor fog, this is a gripping and intelligent film.

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