Title: The John Garfield Story
Narrated by: Julie Garfield
Writer: Joan Kramer and David Heeley
Producers: Joan Kramer and David Heeley
Director: David Heeley
Media: TCM Original Television
Documentary (NTSC VHS Screener)
World Premiere Monday, February 3, 2003
at 8pm (ET)
Network: Turner Classic Movies (Check
your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
Narrated by the late
John Garfield’s daughter, Julie Garfield, and produced and written by veteran
documentary filmmakers Joan Kramer and David Heeley, who also directs, “The
John Garfield Story” illuminates the actor’s life from his humble theatrical
beginnings through his untimely death in 1952 at age 39. Featuring interviews
with Danny Glover, Richard Dreyfuss, Hume Cronyn and many more admirers the
documentary is a part of 25-film festival of the actor’s features airing
Mondays throughout the month of February. I am ashamed to admit that I did not
know who Garfield was before watching this documentary, but I was moved by the
praise he has received and engrossed in this impressive documentary. Check your
local cable or satellite listings for the movies and their airtimes in this film
festival celebration.
Premiere:
Monday,
February 3, 2003, at 8pm (ET)
Encores:
Monday,
February 3, 2003, at 11pm (ET)
Monday,
February 17, 2003, at 2am (ET)
© Copyright 2002 By
Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.