Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.
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.
Series numbering from container.
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.
DVD.
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
|
