Cheap Conquest: The History of Space Exploration (Video) (Conquest) Price
CHEAP-PRICE.NET ’s Cheap Price
$24.98
Here at Cheap-price.net we have Conquest: The History of Space Exploration at a terrific price. The real-time price may actually be cheaper — click “Buy Now” above to check the live price at Amazon.com.
| ACTORS: | Conquest |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1985 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mpi Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 030306119632 |
Related Products
Customer Reviews of Conquest: The History of Space Exploration
Nice old-fashioned historical romance! Charles Boyer and Greta Garbo play opposite each other as, respectively, the great Napoleon Bonaparte and a Polish noblewoman who captures his heart. Garbo is stunning: this is her at the height of her sensuality, while Boyer's Napoleon is a fiery, arrogant, magnetic character who gains our sympathy by the film's end. A grand, old-fashioned romance that pays viewers off quite nicely. Recommended.
BOYER IS BRILLIANT
As Garbo's last dramatic role, this is often included in the retrospectives that have kept her genius visible to new generations. For the only time in Garbo's starring career, her male opposite had a more interesting role than her own in CONQUEST. Charles Boyer, as Napoleon was the flame around which his Polish mistress, Marie Walewska, fluttered in this Samuel Hoffenstein-Salka Viertel-S.N. Behrman script; their doomed affair is superbly acted by both stars under Clarence Brown's able direction. However, it DOES lack the bravura scenes which made CAMILLE so special. Although she looks utterly beautiful, Garbo seems a bit exhausted - like she was still recovering from her extraordinary previous performance. Expensively mounted by Bernard Hyman, this film didn't earn back its cost in America, but it did beautifully overseas. The supporting cast is mostly excellent; it includes Dame May Whitty, Leif Erickson, George Zucco and the great Maria Ouspenskaya.
Charles Boyer as Napoleon outshines Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer team up as a Polish Countess and Napoleon Bonaparte in this 1937 film directed by Clarence Brown. During a 1807 visit to Poland, Napoleon encounters the Countess Marie Walewska. Asked by the Polish government to visit the dictator to get his aid in making their country independent, the Countess reluctantly agrees. Of course she has an affair with him, is divorced by her husband (Henry Stephenson), and becomes Napoleon's mistress. She longs to be his wife, but when Talleyrand (Reginald Owen) arranges Napoleon's marriage to Marie Louise (Jean Fenwick), her hopes are dashed even though she has born the future Emperor a son (Scotty Becket).
"Conquest" is unique as a Garbo film because for once her leading man makes more of an impression than she does. Once again, as with all of her more famous roles, Garbo does not get to live happily ever after. This film is notorious as the biggest money-losing film of 1937. The fault lies more in the script, which is based on Waclaw Gasiorowski's novel "Pani Walewska," than with the performances. Boyer makes a passable Napoleon while Garbo is, well, Garbo, stoically resigned to her fate at the hands of others. All in all, I would say this was an average one of her films. An enjoyable film but not particularly memorable.