Dinner at Eight Format:DVD

Dinner at Eight Format:DVDDinner at Eight, a vastly entertaining behind closed doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multistarred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman

As the disease ravages its way from below deck towards the passenger berths

but only Mary surfaces

And in a world gone mad with war

Seeing no other way

Margaret Rutherford

He's the best twelve-step speaker in town

When old school friends meet

Interviews with former and current members of the groups offer a first-person view of what they are like

Charles Bronson is smoothly right as the clever title character

driving their splintered relationship into further turmoil and provoking deadly consequences

A long simmering family feud rocks a small town when the Godfather of the ruling crime family marries a much younger woman who calls him Daddy

and which might be his next meal