Our Town (1940) Drama, Romance Full Length Film

Their love affair was the talk of our town!
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.
Director: Sam Wood
Writers: Thornton Wilder, Thornton Wilder
Stars: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter
Genres: Classics, Drama, Romance
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[@lindauribe3716]

Every time I watch this movie my heart hurts with memories of the past for my Mom and Dad and grandparents are all gone now. I have lost my police officer husband. I remember the Iceman coming with the big block of ice and the milk man and the Helms bread and sweet truck. We had newspapers twice a day and the fresh vege truck came by and the fish truck. The Avon Lady called weekly and the Fuller Brush man and other sales. The mailman came with his big leather bag. The ice cream truck with its music came by several times a day in the summer. Growing up then was wonderful All the moms stayed home and the Dads worked. No one got divorced. Dinner was for the whole family at 5pm. Summer nights we played outside until late the mothers calling us in. Everyone knew every neighbor for two blocks up and down. We liked our lives and we loved our country.

[@MothGirl007]

Better times, truly. I am sorry for your loss.

[@lindauribe3716]

@@MothGirl007 thank you

[@uslines]

I have memories of early post-WW2 small-town USA. Born 1939. Very much as you stated. When architects eliminated the front-porch, it was the beginning of the end. Before television arrived, that is where families gathered on summer evenings. After, all were indoors, eyes on the tube, the front porch abandoned... and then eliminated from new home construction.

[@brianlindberg6415]

and that's the way it was...

[@danielwintermeyer5724]

Well said, I remember it well

[@mr.b.5589]

no hyper overtones. no poliical agenda. this story reminds of how important we are as people, famlies and community. and that every day is prescious. today truly is the first day of the rest of your life. dont let it pass you by.

[@jopageri58]

if i ever need to cry, i watch this movie... a freakin' masterpiece.

[@lenorewolke8812]

Me too. Whenever I feel like crying. I so watching the dream sequence scene

[@sexydudeuk2172]

i felt the actress who played emily was too old for the role

[@worldupsidedown1]

I’m going to watch this movie fir the first time tonight…I’ll probably cry! 😭

[@Conquistador4564]

I grew up in the 1950's and 1960s, but I remember the daily milk delivery from the milkman Adoor Farms, Helms Bakery Truck driver tooting his whistle, the Ice Cream truck. The family eating dinner together at 6pm. Watching Walt Disney, Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan Shows on Sunday on TV. Golden years of yesterday.

[@thomasklugh4345]

"The day is runnin' down like a tired clock." and, "Tell the truth and shame the devil." Such wonderful sayings...

[@Vejur9000]

This is a great American play. That ending in afterlife, is powerfully spiritual.

[@Eric_B1983]

I played both of the paperboys in high school theater. This is one of my favorites.

[@lucyflorey9152]

We have as a people forgotten respect and appreciation for liberty and working in our various ways to support our communities. I remember the small town we grew up in. Pray for our nation.

[@Wisepati]

Where is the people have become divisive and finger-pointing. So tribal with dislike of people that do not look like us. Toxic religion and masculinity and racism has gotten us here. I don’t think praying will do any good because there isn’t anyone to pray to.

[@billroca6189]

Reading Ann Patchett's new book "Tom Lake" and quickly realized I had never read or viewed "Our Town", so here I am

[@cathyf.2672]

Me too. That's why I am here. I think the movie is better than the book.

[@QuiltingBee]

Me Also. Watched the play with Paul Newman as Stage Manager

[@sheilacorbishley8418]

Oh same here! I'm halfway through the book and suddenly thought that it might be on youtube. Loving it!

[@Wisepati]

@@cathyf.2672 did they make a movie of Tom Lake?

[@vivianwinford3681]

Sweet movie with a real lesson for all.

[@loge10]

I also love this movie - having played in it in high school (doesn't everybody - at least in decades past?), for the score of Aaron Copland - and just the depiction of a way of life. I think this post actually is the highest quality copy that I have seen - most available copies are pretty horrific.

[@rhombamcfierson]

This is such a sad movie and play, but there is more to it. It is so sweet and wholesome in parts.

[@theresagwhite3175]

William Holden was really cute here.

[@bparrish517]

I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a more beautiful woman than Emily... and I’ve lived long enough to see all the incarnations of the American woman since this movie was made. Martha Scott aka Emily was a rarity in American media in that she had an unusually long and productive career while accomplishing it with dignity and grace.

[@dorisbeckman8377]

Beautiful movie...Marraige last when both have something to say to each other!

[@jugghead-1975]

Yes ma'am I agree ... just hit 25 yrs and seems like a LOT of conversation has ran out ? Idk ...

[@dorisbeckman8377]

@@jugghead-1975 Wow 25 years old...you already passed the test of time...Hey...There is more to say around you than you can imagine...You have done really well.

[@craigdylan3953]

It says directly in the play this is NOT true. He doesn't care what I say, as long as I say something says Doc Gibbs wife. On this you contradict the play 180 degrees. Why?

[@STANDINGONKINDNESS-s7h]

I just saw Our Town on Tubi. It was a wonderful movie, and I also read it in high school!

[@uslines]

Very good film though I have mixed emotions about the happy ending movie version. Wonderful Copeland score. Wish it were fully restored as it deserves that.

[@jugghead-1975]

Absolutely it does... great movie

[@marspastor1213]

Absolutely delightful

[@electrictroy2010]

The church-imposed Morality Code required all movies have a happy ending & bad characters always got punished. (And no independent wonen; they must be subservient to husbands or boyfriends.)

[@electrictroy2010]

So basically the producers had no choice but change the ending from sad to happy. Otherwise the movie would be banned

[@MothGirl007]

It's on Blu-ray now so it has been restored.

[@shadrach6299]

We studied Our Time in the 11th grade. We were way to young to understand it. Many years later I typed my son’s high school paper on Our Time. I squalled my eyes out!

[@alexphillips4644]

I just finished watching the series finale of Riverdale on The CW and after watching how everything ended, I was reminded of Our Town.

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

I love this movie and have seen it many times. Thank you for posting it at 2.🤘👻💖

[@georgeadams8230]

Beautiful movie and a first rate score from Mr. Copeland

[@markdowling2736]

Great film. The picture quality is great. There are many on KZbin with poor quality picture.

[@user-nb7zy4zf8x]

Brilliant movie thanks for the upload 💞💯

[@MusicGirl881]

I remember watching this in my high school English class. We saw this movie after reading and acting out the play in class.

[@randecolley7054]

The BEST film ever made..shod be shown in schos.

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

Very talented cast and crew. Looks like heart-warming fluff but is serious business, every bit as much as the 7th seal, midnight cowboy, little big man, etc.

[@traciayala5044]

Love this movie. 😍

[@paulkelly2701]

Well-performed by a skilled well-chosen cast. Delightful set and costume design. Lovely score by the incomparable Aaron Copland. Only problem? One a film can never evade: 'Our Town' is not supposed to be located so clearly in time and space. Sure, the Stage Manager gives us the dates it's all happening, the place is located in time and space but only in our mind when it is on stage. No sets. No props. Ladders suffice for an upstairs window. Ahh, this could almost have been better a radio play than a movie.

[@CultCinemaClassics]

Always check in the Search Bar to see if the film is available in color and B&W 😉

[@paulkelly2701]

thanks but I do not choose colorized films. I figure the filmmakers made that choice and I should honor it.@@CultCinemaClassics

[@craigdylan3953]

I believe Thornton Wilder expressly put this in the dialogue. Go check the play itself. He was trying to show this is "anywhere anytown" by using a country town in about that era. Because it is manifestly about everyone at everytime in history, you don't have to pretend. It is potent because everywhere civilization IS, THIS has happened again and again and again. It's how we REALLY are no matter what anyone says. Got a great science theory? It doesn't matter really does it? But these simple everyday act do-until you die We are all the same , on the same train, going nowhere.

[@sexydudeuk2172]

I thought the actress who played emily was too old

[@littlsuprstr]

Watch the 1989 Great Performances Our Town here on KZbin. No Copland, but a much more faithful play.

[@WilliamHoldenfanpage]

I have put it in my playlist

[@marjanahjaiyana5272]

Awesome

[@aliaselenegomezrosales187]

A Bety Nice ,lovely,si deep movie thanks You for sharing do You have another like this ?

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

I believe the original copyright expired which allowed it to fall into the public domain which allows anyone who pleases to make copies of it to sell or post. no control over quality anymore

[@Gohot229]

The beginning looks alot like the opening to 'Invaders from Mars'

[@boborrahood]

The production designer of Our Town was William Cameron Menzies, who also did Invaders from Mars in 1953, including directing the film.

[@Gohot229]

Hmmmmmm...... thanks friend..@@boborrahood

[@marieberberich4445]

They made us read this in the 7th or 8th grade. I didn't understand any of it. I grew up in Queens where, I now come to find out, everyone knew everyone else and many were related. My father rented an apartment to be close to work. He didn't want the responsibility of a house. My mother, a very educated woman was left isolated in the home. She had headed up the nutrition dept of several hospitals. He wouldnt allow her to continue working. He didn't really want her to have friends and didn't like to come home and find strangers in the house. He didn't particularly want kids. I think I came by accident (as most kids do) and he refused to allow her to have any more (or so she told me when I was 10 and asked her for a sibling). In the end, she took to drink and he blamed me for it. We had gone to my paternal grandmother's house every weekend but when she started drinking, all of a sudden we stopped going. He told his family she was sick - not far from the truth, really. She had always been interested in other cultures and ancient history. Especially Egyptology. From the time I was 2, she would take me to the American Museum of Natural History and hold me in her arms and show me the dinosaur skeletons and slowly pronounce their Latin names for me. Later. I would study Latin in high school. She read me books by Rudyard Kipling, where all the wild things were my friends. Sadly, she could never let go of my father or stand up to him. That enshrined in me an understanding that freedom is everything. I had always had a dream of going to Africa. When I was 27, I went and bought a plane ticket and flew to London and from there to Kilimanjaro Airport, East Africa. It was my first time going any distance from home. I found a place I had seen in dreams since I was 4 years old. I had never seen a picture of it, not even in the travel brochure. Nonetheless, my heart led me there. And I knew I had finally come home and my heart was full of rapture at the beauty of the place. And yes, I did befriend the wild things. One specifically was a wild mother elephant with what appeared to be a newborn. I asked our driver to turn off the engine. He was terrified as were all the other passengers in the land rover. We sat there in the quiet of the forest with sunlight peeping thru the Ieaves and causing them to appear dappled. And I spoke to her, in a quiet and gentle voice saying how beautiful her baby was. She walked right up to the window and looked at me. I did not reach out to her. That would have been presumptuous. Eventually she gave her baby a little smack across its rump as if to say. "You and your cuteness." And they disappeared into the woods. The following year, I went to Egypt and met and fell in love with an Egyptian archaeologist. When I told him about my mother, he sent me back with a message to her that, if she came, he would take her anywhere she wanted to go. When I got back, I called her and relayed the message and she burst into tears and said "it's a beautiful dream but I can't leave your father." I was appalled. I had not understood the depth of her self-imposed bondage. I said you'll only be there for 2 to 3 weeks - you're not going to move there!" But, the conversation was over. A month later, she collapsed in the living room. The doctor said it was a heart attack but I know otherwise. She died of a broken heart. So, as you can see, my life started out in a kind of Our Town. Many of my elementary school colleagues are still there - stuck nearly motionless in the same spot for 60+ years. As for me, I am preparing for my return to East Africa. And this time, I want to stay.

[@electrictroy2010]

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[@clydeblair9622]

Whose town was this? Such affluence.

[@Atmosphere8458]

Wally Webb was done really dirty died of a burst appendix so foul💀

[@randomreviews4278]

can you please upload the man who laughs 1928

[@CultCinemaClassics]

CCC isn't your local blockbuster... BUT... we do have dedicated space for your requests & recommendations in the #mostwanted thread on Discord discord.gg/TvHaxddACV. 😜

[@TomiAnneTimm]

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

[@YuChiGongG]

"Beyond the railroad tracks is POLISH Town"... Haha. Times have changed.

[@craigdylan3953]

You are very much mistaken Yu. Everything is exactly the SAME. Even in your own country of China, you have the rich living one place, and the poor living in another. IT might be ghettos, a sequested neighborhood, or"back there', but every city has it's good places, and "over there". In New England there were actually many many mill towns or farm towns, or cities like Boston where millions of Polish peasants, or Irish immigrants came to. Famine and horrendous conditions in Ireland, Poland, Russia, Ukraine etc made it a life and death situation. When you laugh in quotes " Ha ha" is demonstrates not stupidity itself, but basic ignorance of history and others. It actually makes you look cruel and stupid though, which I don't think is the case. No one who actually took a close look at this play and watched it to the end could be considered thus. As one of the most important plays ever written, you mistake its simplicity for unsophisticatedness. It is the modern vapid viewer who is really simple, childish, and completely forgetful of mankind's long history. The Red Guard murdered millions, just like the Assyrians, the Romans, and the modern Germans. Wake up and grow up. "ha ha."

[@YuChiGongG]

@@craigdylan3953 Haha, yourself...because...you do not know who I am, and you do NOT know where I live... Take Care, Man....!

[@jamessilva7991]

I think he means is that you probably wouldn't use the term "Polish Town" today.@@craigdylan3953

[@paulsolon6229]

Hokiness Sentimentalism

[@cathyf.2672]

That was the 1940s. People really liked that stuff back then.

[@loge10]

​@@cathyf.2672Too bad we don't like it more these things. Look at us. Our way of life is toxic - and pathetic.

[@randyerwin6016]

Sorry that you didn't get it. Many people don't.

[@paulsolon6229]

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[@paulsolon6229]

@@randyerwin6016 superciliousness

[@agaragar8100]

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