Our Town (1940) | Newly Restored Archive Collection Format:Blu-ray

Our Town (1940) | Newly Restored Archive Collection Format:Blu-rayThorton Wilder's touching story of life in a New Hampshire town stars William Holden and Martha Scott as a young couple looking to the future. Six Oscar nominations went to director Sam Wood's version of this Pulitzer Prize winning drama, including one for Best Picture, and one for Aaron Copland's original score. Also, look for two of Hollywood's great character performers, Guy Kibbee and Beulah Bondi as Mr. and Mrs. Webb, and Thomas Mitchell as good

A young Sissy Spacek plays the title character

In town for a show

using information from the newly uncovered "Rasputin File"

and the gendarmes aim to find a nice chair with straps and high voltage for him

The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other's valet for a year

Vishvam is one of four hoodlum brothers who rule a village with an iron grip with their father

in the hottest deserts and the darkest depths

Interwoven with these sequences are dramatizations of the workings of labor union spies

In early-career roles

he goes out of his way to help Jerry save her company

the bitterness escalates

National Geographic rides with the police force as they rush to reach a severely-injured woman in remote mountainous terrain