Today We Live (1933) | 
| Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Actors: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone, Roscoe Karns
Studio: MGM (Warner)
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 19007
Format: Black & White, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302922992
UPC: 027616303837
EAN: 9786302922998
ASIN: 6302922992
Theatrical Release Date: April 14, 1933
Release Date: September 1, 1998
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 Surprisingly touching and artful film January 24, 2005
Scott Coblio (West Hollywood, CA United States)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm surprised at the negative reviews here regarding "Today We Live". The triangle between Joan, Franchot Tone as her brother and Robert Young as their childhood friend is so touchingly and sensitively directed and rendered by these actors, I don't see how anyone could fail to be moved by it. Joan is beautiful as never before--and never again--she is really at her most stunning here. There's an electrifying shot of her staring gloomily out a rainy window, turning her head slowly toward the camera to peer through an open bedroom door at Robert Young that you have to see to believe. And except for a few stagey moments, she is always convincing, and--as one reviewer pointed out about another of her films--was generally more natural and contemporary than her peers. Young also was never this good, and Franchot Tone nearly walks away with the movie. Gary Cooper as the love interest is interesting, and the sexual theme about not waiting for marriage is very modern and daring for the time. Somehow, Joan looks even more beautiful to me in the trenchcoats and uniforms she wears as a nurse in the British army than she does in her Adrian gowns, perhaps because the starkness of the drab clothing reveals her beauty by contrast. The weirdest thing about the film is the "language" spoken by Joan, Young, and Tone, completely lacking in pronouns. No one ever says "I", "You", "He", "She" or "We". They just start each sentence with the verb or adjective! I guess that's a Faulkner trademark? But Joan's performance can make you tear up, especially when she is maternally comforting Robert Young who is getting a little shell shocked, promising to be his girl in order to hold him together, even though she is in love with Gary Cooper! It's the usual Crawford formula---and yet it is moving. For all her staginess, Crawford has an earnest streak, something vital and desperate to connect --that makes her presence more compelling than everyone around her. Ironic, as she seems to be remembered instead for hammering the life out of her performances by overplaying the lady (a trait she acquired in her later film roles). Not true here. Joan and the rest of the cast are all quite effective. Anyway, if you are a fan of Joan's, give this movie a chance. I doubt you will be disapointed.
 ...TOMORROW WE DIE. March 31, 2002
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Diana Boyce-Smith, an aristocratic English girl, tries to do her part at home while her father fights at the front during the early years of the World War; she rents the family home to an American studying in England whose name is Bogard and there is an inevitable romance in the era of WWI. Joan Crawford seems awkward playing with a less than expert English accent; the part was actually a total figment of the scenarist's imagination: the original Faulkner story contained no women whatsoever! Gary Cooper is restrained, sympathetic and fairly believable in this; he and the great character actor Roscoe Karns seem to have the only genuine touches. Director Howard Hawks endowed the film with period detail; the air shots were esteemed in their day and the shots at sea are superb. This story was drawn by William Faulkner; this was his first literary effort transferred to the screen and it was done rather uneasily. Faulkner handled the dialogue (which sounds like short, urgent telegrams, instead of dialogue between people), himself.
 The great Crawford as I have never seen her June 13, 2006
Donald Murrell (Augusta, Ga ., United States of America)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had the opportunity to see only a small part of this film weeks ago and was knockout by Joan's beauty, portrayal and vulnerability. I went straight to the Amazon sales and found it only available in VHS at an extraordinary price for the tape. I want to demand this film treat in DVD so this beautiful black and white Crawford and Gary Cooper romance of yore be preserved in my home and others' for a long, long time. A old film buff I was enthralled by the beauty of the crisp film and relationship of the characters.
visto dall"Italia March 13, 2001
m.angela gobbi (italy. busto arsizio)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
la storia non e gran che,ma Gary cooper e sempre all"altezza;un po" gigione nei momenti leggeri,ma capace di espressioni intense nel momento del dramma. Di piu non posso dire perche non so l" inglese e faccio fatica a capire i dialoghi.
 love on the rinse cycle May 8, 2008
lettylynton (Scarsdale)
Today We Live (March 3, 1933) (Studio: MGM)
Runtime Listing: 110
Color/BW: Black and White
(Joan played: Diana "Ann" Boyce-Smith)
Brief Synopsis:
An aristocratic English girl's tangled love life creates havoc during World War I.
Joan's brief comments on this film: I was extremely uncomfortable with a British accent...
"Today We life," this is one that I am not crazy about at all. I've seen it a couple of times and each time I have to force myself to finish watching it because it's so boring. Was Joan supposed to have a British accent? I couldn't tell. The story is Joan's signature M-G-M love-triangle formula but it seems like someone left it on rinse cycle a little too long because everyone's all wet. This is a war-era movie, maybe that's why I don't like it; those movies never worked out too well for Joan. Skip this and go straight to Joan's next picture, "Dancing Lady," one of her very best!! And who in their right mind would pay thirty for this? Lemme know because I got some ocean front property in Arizona to sell them.
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