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The importance of being Earnest an Anthony Asquith production
(2002, original release: 1952)

Fiction

DVD

Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/COMEDY/IMPORTANCE

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Details

PUBLISHED
Los Angeles, Calif. : Janus Films : Distributed by Voyager Co., [2002]
℗2002
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
0780024982 IMP060
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES

Criterion collection #158

NOTES

Based on the play by Oscar Wilde

A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest

Originally released as a motion picture in 1952

Features: Original theatrical trailer, rare production stills with notes by film historian Bruce Elder

Director, Anthony Asquith ; producer, Teddy Baird ; Director of photography, Desmond Dickinson ; film editor, John G. Guthridge ; music, Benjamin Frankel

Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin, Joan Greenwood

DVD format

Closed captioned

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Redgrave, Michael.

Baird, Teddy.

Frankel, Benjamin, 1949-

Denison, Michael.

Evans, Edith, 1888-1976.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Rutherford, Margaret, 1892-1972.

Tutin, Dorothy, 1930-2001.

Greenwood, Joan, 1921-1987.

Janus Films.

Voyager Company.

Additional Titles

TITLES

Container title: Anthony Asquith's The importance of being Earnest

Importance of being Earnest

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SUBJECTS

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.

Drama.

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