Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Rosalind Russell Eng

Rosalind Russell stars in this marathon adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. The O'Neill original transposed Euripides' Agamemnon/Clytemnestra legend to post-Civil War New England. Russell plays the daughter of a returning war hero (Raymond Massey), who comes home to find his wife (Katina Paxinou) in the arms of a younger man. The wife murders the husband, leaving it to her grown children--Russell and Michael Redgrave--to exact vengeance. This morbid plotline climaxes with Russell's descent into destructive self-righteousness and her brother's retreat into insanity. Though superbly acted, Mourning Becomes Electra scared away too many moviegoers in its original three-hour running time, which was still half the length of the O'Neill play. Even when pared down to 105 minutes for general release, the film lost tons of money for the ever-beleaguered RKO Studios; to complete the film's curse, Russell lost her long-cherished (and never-won) Best Actress Oscar to Loretta Young for The Farmer's Daughter. According to Oscar legend, Russell was so certain of winning, on the heels of her husband's massive promotional campaign, that she was already out of her seat when she heard Young's name. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039636/ Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins Director: Dudley Nichols Rosalind Russell... Lavinia Mannon Michael Redgrave... Orin Mannon Raymond Massey ... Brig. Gen. Ezra Mannon Katina Paxinou ... Christine Mannon Leo Genn ... Adam Brant Kirk Douglas ... Peter Niles Video Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Streaming Video@L1 Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Custom Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 2h 38mn Bit rate : 503 Kbps Width : 512 pixels Height : 384 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.102 Stream size : 570 MiB (81%) Writing library : XviD 50 Audio Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 2h 38mn Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 102 Kbps Minimum bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 116 MiB (17%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.60 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 540 ms Writing library : LAME3.98r Encoding settings : ABR Language : English

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