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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 12, 2005
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rex Harrison | |
Performer: | Linda Darnell, Kurt Kreuger, Barbara Lawrence, Rudy Vallee, Lionel Stander, Edgar Kennedy, Al Bridge, Julius Tannen & Torben Meyer | |
Directed by | Preston Sturges | |
Edited by | Robert Fritch | |
Screenwriting by | Preston Sturges | |
Composition by | Gioacchino Rossini, Richard Wagner & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |
Produced by | Preston Sturges | |
Director of Photography: | Victor Milner |
Entertainment Reviews:
93%
TOMATOMETER
[T]here are some wildly energetic and imaginative sequences which show Sturges at his bravura best.
Sight and Sound
Impeccable 1948 Hollywood swan song from Preston Sturges...
Uncut
[R]ich....[With] lovely bits from select members of Struges' rep company.
Premiere
Product Description:
In his last Hollywood film, Preston Sturges crafts a powerfully rendered mix of slapstick, screwball, and melodrama in his darkest comedy ever. Rex Harrison plays Alfred de Carter, the effete and blasé classical conductor returning to New York on the eve of a great performance. Awaiting his return are his beautiful wife Daphne, her coy sister, and her brother-in-law Auguste. Alfred had asked Auguste to look after Daphne during his absence, and when August alerts Alfred that he had Daphne watched by a detective and attempts to deliver the report, the seeds of doubt are planted in an otherwise blissfully romantic marriage The superb Alfred slowly comes undone as he unwillingly lets the idea of Daphne's possible infidelity contaminate his every thought. Sirk elicits uproarious performances from the dry and evocative cast as the film leads to a masterfully complex climax: Alfred fantasizing variously gruesome, magnanimous, and gallant actions he might take, while simultaneously conducting the symphony orchestra to an enraptured audience. When Alfred attempts to act on his fantasy, reality becomes stranger than fiction, and his devious plans are derailed in a series of hysterical physical gags and unsuspected misunderstandings.
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