Ah, Wilderness (1935 DVD & 1959 DVD-R versions)

Get the original film, Ah Wilderness (1935), and the remake, Ah Wilderness (1959)), for 20% off their individual prices!

AH, WILDERNESS (1935)

Starring Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker
Directed by Clarence Brown

Print: black/white
Runtime: 98 min.
Genre: comedy

Young Richard Miller feels the constraints of his turn-of-the-century New England hometown and close-knit family. Out there - why, out there is a world of advanced ideas like Socialism, advanced men like Oscar Wilde and advanced women who will actually kiss a fellow! So Richard tries to practice a little out there right where he is...with warm, wonderfully funny results. A sterling cast highlighted by Best Actor Oscar(r) winners* Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore plus an up-and-comer named Mickey Rooney gives Eugene O'Neill's only comedy the loving luster it deserves. Horseless carriages, straw boaters, nickle beer: Ah, Wilderness is a portrait of an America long gone - but forever remembered.

AH, WILDERNESS (1959))

Starring Norman Fell, Betty Field, Helen Hayes, Abigail Kellogg, Lee Kinsolving
Directed by Robert Mulligan

Print: color
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: drama

On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.