Clifford Odets' portrait of the Depression, Paradise Lost, was premiered by the Group Theatre in a ground-breaking 1935 Broadway production directed by Harold Clurman and starring Luther and Stella Adler, Yiddish theatre legend Morris Carnovsky, Elia Kazan and Sanford Meisner, among others. It became one of the Group's most controversial plays and remains Odets' favorite. Set in 1932, Paradise Lost unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Less concerned with plot so much as characterization, it conveys what one critic calls Odets' "rich, compassionate, angry feelings for people." "It is my hope," wrote Odets, "that when people see [it], they're going to be glad they're alive. And I hope that after they've seen it, they'll turn to strangers sitting next to them and say 'hello.'" "A moving evocation of an apparently lost genre." --The Christian Science Monitor. With Bernadette Peters, Eli Wallach, Fred Gwynne, and Jo Van Fleet.
You should see it, make no mistake this is a definite blockbuster!
Wow! I really loved the movie Paradise Lost. The movie is absolutely stunning with top-notch graphics and visuals while George Bartenieff deliver some award-winning performances in this movie.
I also think Rose Gregorio was great! The visuals and graphics make for some very realistic on screen special-effects but that is the beauty of the movie.When the movie wants to be funny it is funny, the same is true for when the movie needs to deliver its scary aspects.
I think George Bartenieff and Rose Gregorio worked wonderful in Paradise Lost. The great supporting cast includes George Bartenieff, Rose Gregorio, Sam Groom, Howard Green (VII), Biff McGuire.
I think George Bartenieff and Rose Gregorio worked wonderful in Paradise Lost. The great supporting cast includes George Bartenieff, Rose Gregorio, Sam Groom, Howard Green (VII), Biff McGuire.
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