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©2003
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #170
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932
"When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container
Based on the play by Laszlo Aladar
Special features: audio commentary by Lubitsch biographer Scott Eyman; new video introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; Lubitsch's 1917 short film Das fidele Gefängnis; 1940 Screen Guild Theater radio program featuring Ernst Lubitsch, Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Basil Rathbone; tributes to Lubitsch written by Billy Wilder, Leonard Maltin, Cameron Crowe, Roger Ebert, and others
Recorded in Dolby digital mono
1.33:1 aspect ratio
Program notes by Armond White and Enno Patalas inserted in container
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Photography, Victor Milner ; music, W. Franke Harling, Aljoscha Zimmerman (fidele Gefängnis) ; lyrics, Leo Robin ; DVD producer, Johanna Schiller ; camera, Matt Ehling (Peter Bogdanovich introduction) ; editor, Gary Bradley (Peter Bogdanovich introduction)
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig
MPAA: Not rated
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English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired