Where to Watch The Portable Phonograph (1977)

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We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Portable Phonograph' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Portable Phonograph' right now, here are some finer points about the flick.

The Portable Phonograph starring Michael Gwynn, William Squire, Philip Locke, David Buck has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about N/A, and a scheduled release date of May 1st, 1977.

Here’s what’s going on in this one... Here's the plot: "An adaptation of the short story of the same title by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, in which four men who have survived a catastrophic war share memories of their past lives and a civilization which no longer exists. Here, a vintage recording of Debussy's Nocturne played by Walter Gieseking becomes the vehicle by which four lovers of the humanities hover together in a cold post-apocalyptic shack of sandbags to mourn weekly over lost art and loves gone by. Barnes, who must be considered among the greatest filmmakers ever to work in the educational world, forcibly illustrates, through flashback sequences and close-up shots, how the humanities --- music, painting, literature, and theatre --- are perhaps the most enriching of all human endeavors. Their ultimate and devastating loss may have never before or since been shown with such terrifying passion." .