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Release Date:
30 May 1977 (USA) more
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Won Primetime Emmy. Another 7 nominations more
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A brave effort...flawed, but still quite good more (6 total)

Cast

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Hal Holbrook ... Stage manager

Ned Beatty ... Dr. Gibbs
Sada Thompson ... Mrs. Gibbs

Barbara Bel Geddes ... Mrs. Webb

Glynnis O'Connor ... Emily Webb
Robby Benson ... George Gibbs
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Scott Atlas ... Wally Webb
Don Beddoe ... Const. Warren
Elizabeth Cheshire ... Rebecca Gibbs

Ronny Cox ... Mr. Webb
David Cryer ... Simon Stimson
Charles Cyphers ... Sam Craig
Edmund Gaynes ... Choir member
Pamela Hall ... Choir member
John Houseman ... Prof. Willard (scenes deleted)
William Lanteau ... Howie Newsome

Allen Price ... Joe Crowell Jr.
Charlotte Rae ... Mrs. Soames
Ford Rainey ... Joe Stoddard
Michael Sharrett ... Si Crowell
Rex Steven Sikes ... George's friend
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120 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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The original Broadway production of "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder opened at Henry Miller's Theater on February 4, 1938, ran for 338 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1938. more
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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
A brave effort...flawed, but still quite good, 27 August 1999
Author: Wayne119

Having two of our favorite TV moms--Sada Thompson of Family and Barbara Bel Geddes of Dallas--in the roles of Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb was inspired casting. Charlotte Rae is adorable as the scatterbrained Mrs. Soames, and Robby Benson as George is appropriately naive and cute. The third act, where Emily returns briefly to life after dying in childbirth, must be difficult to perform convincingly, but Glynnis O'Connor beautifully conveys the many levels of emotion and meaning in this segment of the play.

This was intended as the "definitive" version of Our Town, and it could have been that. But the stylized stage sets are really hokey, and Hal Holbrook may be just a bit too "folksy" in his interpretation of the Stage Manager role (compared to Spalding Gray's more subdued performance in the 1989 version).

I love this play--and I like this version of it despite its flaws.

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