"Actor: Walter Matthau Ruth Storey Leo Fuchs Robert Lipton Felicia Farr Martin Ritt"

• Awake and Sing | DVD | (01/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Walter Matthau heads the cast of this television recreation of Clifford Odets' 1935 hit Broadway play, the first full-length work performed on the commercial stage by the legendary Group Theatre. This portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years, and is suffused with details of character and place that combine to be affecting even now. The Bergers, burdened by financial difficulties, have taken in a boarder - Max Axelrod (Matthau) - ...