The Lady Eve (1941) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
The Lady Eve (1941) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- USA, 1941
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
Delivery to minors is not possible.
Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - Item number:
- 10232052
- UPC/EAN:
- 5050629602234
- Release date:
- 10.8.2020
- Series:
- Criterion Collection
- Genre:
- Komödie
- Playing time ca.:
- 93 Min.
- Director:
- Preston Sturges
- Actor:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
- Film music:
- Sigmund Krumgold
- Original title:
- Die Falschspielerin
- Language:
- Englisch
- Picture:
- 4:3
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck’s conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda’s nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her mark, her grift becomes a game of hearts—and she is determined to win it all. One in a string of matchless comedic marvels that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced as part of a dazzling 1940s run, this gender-flipped battle-of-wits farce is perhaps his most emotionally satisfying work, tempering its sparkling wit with a streak of tender poignancy supplied by the sensational Stanwyck at her peak.
Specials
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2001 featuring film professor Marian Keane
Introduction from 2001 by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
New conversation among writer-director Preston Sturges’s biographer and son Tom Sturges; Bogdanovich; filmmakers James L. Brooks and Ron Shelton; film historian Susan King; and critics Leonard Maltin and Kenneth Turan
New video essay by film critic David Cairns
Costume designs by Edith Head
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1942 featuring Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland
Audio recording of “Up the Amazon,” a song from an unproduced stage musical based on the film
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1946 profile of Preston Sturges from LIFE magazine
Reviews
WOP Kistner: "Eine US-Komödie von altem Schrot und Korn, mit Saft und Kraft, mit Tempo und Witz. Dialoge und Inszenierung: hochelegant!"
