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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 59710
Released: February 3, 2004 |
| Our Price: $2.37 |
| Used Price: $2.40 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In this great screen drama, the glitz and glitter of Berlin's opulent Grand Hotel comes alive with its star-studded guests and employees: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore. Year: 1932
DVD Features:
Documentary:New making-of documentary Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Featurette:Vitaphone musical short Nothing Ever Happens
Newsreel:Premiere newsreel
Other:Just a Word of Warning theatre announcement
Scene Access
Theatrical Trailer:Trailers of this and the 1945 remake Weekend at the Waldorf
Description of Grand Hotel (Snap case):
This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a sweeping soap opera about the guests at the Grand Hotel. Several plots intertwine, but mostly it's about Stars! Stars! Stars! Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and both Barrymore brothers head up the cast. Garbo is luminous as Grusinskaya, the neurotic and famous-but-slipping dancer and, yes, she "vonts to be alone." John Barrymore is a cat burglar with blue blood and a heart of gold, and Lionel Barrymore happily caroms off him as Mr. Kringelein, a dying man who wants to live out the time he has left with the rich. Joan Crawford is perhaps the biggest surprise of the movie: as Flaemmchen, a young career girl trying to decide between secretary and tart, she is uncharacteristically funny, vivacious, and downright bubbly. Along the way we discover that money, fame, and titles don't guarantee happiness, and being a jewel thief doesn't necessarily make you a bad person. The nicest touch is the hint that other, minor plots swirl around the edges of the film, suggesting that we've only seen a small chapter of the hotel's story. Grand Hotel is a great deal of fun and an excellent chance to see some famous faces in their prime. --Ali Davis
Grand Hotel (Snap case) Reviews:
grand and thoughtful 
2009-12-19 -
Goulding's multi-cast and multi-story narrative is an intelligent and very human story. He captures the traffic of a famous hotel with exemplary commentary on people and society. He uses the sets to challenge and alienate them and great dialogue so that they may expound on their feelings. There is so much detail in his telling of the story that it cries to be noticed and appreciated. This genre of film has been imitated over and over again but it's never had quite the same feeling for this kind of material.
This video transfer is not perfect but quite good.
Grand Hotel/DVD
2009-11-14 - This old movie, remastered in DVD, was in excellent shape and was received in a very short time of ordering. Would order from this company again.
A 1930's classic
2009-09-17 - For the 30's classic film collector. "THE" cast of the 1930's intertwined in a great script and storyline. If you are a 1930's film fanatic then you have to be nuts to NOT own this one. Entertainment, VALUE - VALUE - VALUE. Trust me on this one folks ( really - I'm not in Congress ).
just a classic 
2009-05-18 - With Greta Garbo opposite John Barrymore you get you money's worth with this one: the film quality of this version sometimes lets you down,
but not the acting. They weren't all stars when this came out, but many of the character roles are played by screen greats like Wallace Beery and Joan Crawford ( very young here). The Baron( jewel thief) and the Russian ballet dancer makes for some very important acting in this movie.
I liked it!
Barrymore and Garbo
2009-05-11 - I found this film a very high-quality, well-appointed DVD product for the old movie collector or the Barrymore afficionado. John Barrymore at his romantic best as a movie star, probably in his waning years but nevertheless dashing and effective as the tarnished and destitute society leech and jewel thief. The scenes with Garbo are historic. And a young Joan Crawford is beguiling as an impressionistic secretary. Her beauty is mysterious and timeless. Great resolution in the transfer, clear and sharp and beautifully black & white. My research into John Barrymore's life and career was greatly enhanced by this DVD. Hopefully, archival material like this film will be marketed and promoted better in the future. We have a treasure in Hollywood films like "Grand Hotel."
