It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Barbara Stanwyck | Jean |
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Henry Fonda | Charles Pike |
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Charles Coburn | 'Colonel' Harrington |
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Eugene Pallette | Mr. Pike |
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William Demarest | Muggsy |
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Eric Blore | Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith |
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Melville Cooper | Gerald |
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Martha O'Driscoll | Martha |
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Janet Beecher | Mrs. Pike |
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Robert Greig | Burrows |
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Dora Clement | Gertrude |
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Luis Alberni | Pike's Chef |
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Abdullah Abbas | Man with Potted Palm |
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Norman Ainsley | Sir Alfred's Servant |
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Mary Akin | Passenger on Ship |
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Sam Ash | Husband on Ship |
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Harry A. Bailey | Lawyer |
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Bobby Barber | Ship's Waiter with Toupee |
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Ambrose Barker | Mac |
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Dorothy Barrett | Party Guest |
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Wilson Benge | First Butler at Party |
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Wilda Bennett | Party Guest |
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Evelyn Beresford | Party Guest |
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Al Bridge | First Steward |
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Tex Brodus | Racetrack Patron |
| Director | Preston Sturges |
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| Writer | Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges | |
| Producer | Buddy G. DeSylva, Paul Jones, William LeBaron, Albert Lewin | |
| Musician | Phil Boutelje, Charles Bradshaw, Gil Grau, Sigmund Krumgold, John Leipold, Leo Shuken | |
| Photography | Victor Milner | |
| Edition | Special |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Academy Ratio (1.37:1) |
| Audio Tracks | LPCM Mono [English] |
| Subtitles | English (SDH) |
| Distributor | Criterion |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jul 14, 2020 |
| Regions | Region A |
| Watched | |
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| Quantity | 1 |
| Index | 2347 |
| Added Date | Nov 10, 2020 00:14:31 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:35:07 |
Bought with Beth on our 30th anniversary at the B&H 50% off sale.
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fondabumbles, 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 and directed as part of a dazzling 1940s run, this gender-flipped battle-of-wits farce is perhaps his most emotionally satisfying work, tempering its sparkling humor with a streak of tender poignancy supplied by the sensational Stanwyck at her peak.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2001 featuring film scholar 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; and critics Susan King, 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 from 2013 of “Up the Amazon,” a song from an unproduced stage musical based on the film
Trailer
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
New cover by Maurice Vellekoop
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