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[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
©2019
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet
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Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch
Originally released as a motion picture in 1946
Full screen (1.37:1)
Special features: new 4K digital restoration ; new conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Farran Smith Nehme on unconventional female characters in Ernst Lubitsch's films ; new video essay by film scholar Kristin Thompson ; The Lubitsch touch, an interview with film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz from 2004 ; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1947, featuring Olivia de Havilland and Charles Boyer ; an essay by novelist and essayist Siri Hustevedt
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner, Reginald Owen, C. Aubrey Smith, Richard Haydn
Rating: Not rated
Blu-ray, full screen (1.37:1); monoaural; requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)