You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (23 Sep. 2008)

Director:

Richard Schickel

Writer:

Richard Schickel

Stars:

Clint Eastwood, Carroll Baker, Jeanine Basinger

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Clint Eastwood	...	Himself - Narrator
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carroll Baker	...	Herself - Interviewee
Jeanine Basinger	...	Herself - Interviewee
Warren Beatty	...	Himself - Interviewee
Rudy Behlmer	...	Himself - Interviewee
Andrew Bergman	...	Himself - Interviewee
Busby Berkeley	...	Himself - Interviewee (archive footage)
Ray Bradbury	...	Himself - Interviewee
James Cagney	...	Himself - Interviewee (archive footage)
John Calley	...	Himself - Interviewee
Charlotte Chandler	...	Herself - Interviewee
George Clooney	...	Himself - Interviewee
Richard Corliss	...	Himself - Interviewee
Stanley Cortez	...	Himself - Interviewee (archive footage)
Stanley Donen	...	Himself - Interviewee

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

movie studio | warner bros. studios | warner bros. | film clip | film history

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | History | Music | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 September 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lorac Productions, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Sisters Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Features The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

User Reviews

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story provides a smorgasborg of some of their greatest movies in one program

Just finished watching this five hour version of the film history of Warner Bros. on the PBS "American Masters" series. Lots of fascinating clips of various pictures from the studio over the years starting with their first one from 1918 called My Four Years in Germany. From there, we hear of a young man named Darryl Zanuck and his early days as a writer on the studio's "Rin-Tin-Tin" pictures, to the triumph of the first feature talkie The Jazz Singer and the tragedy of Sam Warner's death the day earlier, to the "gangster movies" that made stars of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, to the eventual stardom of Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. When we get to the '50s, we're briefly shown titles of Warner's TV shows as well as highlight clips of classic cartoons like Duck Amuck and What's Opera Doc? along with Doris Day's musical heyday and Elia Kazan's discoveries of Marlon Brando and James Dean. By the last two hours comes various titles from the '70s to now that show how committed Warner Bros. is to compelling dramas from big stars like Clint Eastwood (who narrates here) and George Clooney as long as they also provide crowd pleasing blockbusters. Perhaps the way this documentary glosses over some bad times and flops makes this less than ideal as a definitive history of one of the greatest movie studios of all time, but still You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story should provide plenty of reasons while watching all those scenes to want to go to the nearest library or video store and check many of their movies out!