Based on the play by Noël Coward.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.
Special features: "The clerk," starring Charles Laughton, director Ernst Lubitsch's segment of the 1932 omnibus film "If I had a million" ; selected-scene commentary by film scholar William Paul ; British television production of the play "Design for living" from 1964, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward ; new interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and screenwriter Ben Hecht's adaptation of the Coward play ; a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan.
Photography, Victor Milner; editor, Frances Marsh; original music, John Leipold.
Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn.
DVD; Dolby Digital mono.; region 1, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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