Carrie - Laurence Olivier & Jennifer Jones [DVD] [1952]

A haunting performance. Laurence Olivier's talents really shines.

Enjoyed it a lot good cast 👌

I read the book the movie is based on, then ordered this DVD and so enjoyed it, fantastic performance from Olivier and the quality of the DVD was excellent. It arrived in good time. Very happy with item and seller

Really very touching and beautifully directed film. William Wyler is a marvellous director and Laurence Olivier really should have got an Oscar for his performance. Well worth buying.....

This surely is William Wyler's finest film and Hurstwood provides Laurence Olivier with one of his truly great film roles. Oddly, the film was a commercial failure when it came out in 1951. Apparently the public did not want to watch such realistic tragedy so soon after WW2. I found Hurstwood's decline from debonair 'maître d'hôtel' to a homeless tramp through his obsessive love for Carrie (Jennifer Jones excellent) truly moving. Olivier has completely mastered the art of understatement and the use of minute expression necessary for film acting. The black and white filming is perfectly suited to the subject and atmospheric. The DVD restitution is first-rate. I would also strongly recommend 'the book of the film': "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser, a masterpiece of the American Social Realism school.

Very moving movie about a man who gives up everything for the love of his life.

I have such tender memories of 'Carrie' from my first youth. I remember crying and being dejected and severely tested by the emotions of it all.Not so now, though. I was so disappointed. To me William Wyler is among the five best directors ever, but 'Carrie' is not one of his shining hours. Jennifer Jones is the naïve peasant girl who, in the beginning of the 19th century, moves to big city Chicago, where she falls in love with a mature, and as it turns out very married restaurant owner, Laurence Olivier. He runs away with her and you watch them as they slide further and further down the social ladder. Until she makes up her mind to make a difference ...God knows, the very poor state that this DVD transfer is in did not help any, but I am not sure that the film itself is worth any thorough restoration. It is all very soberly and decently made, and Olivier is nothing short of brilliant, but the film is too complacent, too satisfied to be the perfect movie for a ladies' night out to ultimately make an impression. It is just not very ambitious, and today it looks very old-fashioned.

Yes, I saw this film many years ago but could only remember parts of it. One of those parts was the end, I had added some scenes of my own over time, but it didn't disappoint. Well worth seeing again, I'm glad I had the opportunity to go back in time. The DVD itself was advertised as used but appeared to be as new and unopened, there was no problems with either picture or sound.