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Holiday (Criterion Collection)

Holiday (Criterion Collection)

Columbia Pictures (1938)
Blu-ray
US - Approved
715515239813
Comedy | Romance
USA | English | Black & White | 01:35

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!


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Katharine Hepburn Linda Seton
Cary Grant Johnny Case
Doris Nolan Julia Seton
Lew Ayres Ned Seton
Edward Everett Horton Nick Potter
Henry Kolker Edward Seton
Binnie Barnes Laura Cram
Jean Dixon Susan Potter
Henry Daniell Seton Cram
Harry Allen Scotchman
Frank Benson Scotchman
Aileen Carlyle Farm Girl
Edward Cooper Scotchman
Margaret McWade Farmer's Wife
Frank Shannon Farmer
Charles Trowbridge Banker
Marion Ballou Portrait of Grandmother Seton
Brandon Beach Churchgoer
Edward Biby Churchgoer
Beatrice Blinn Maid
Thomas Braidon Downstairs Butler Admitting Johnny
Maurice Brierre Ship's Steward
Ralph Brooks Party Guest
Mary Jane Carey Girl at Party
James Carlisle Party Guest

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Edition details

Packaging HD Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Academy Ratio (1.37:1)
Audio Tracks Mono [English]
Subtitles English (SDH)
Distributor Criterion
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Jan 07, 2020
Regions Region 1 | Region A

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Quantity 1
Index 2410
Added Date Apr 21, 2021 15:47:20
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:35:13

Notes

A gift to Beth from me for her birthday, 2021


Two years before stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and director George Cukor would collaborate on The Philadelphia Story, they brought their timeless talents to this delectable slice of 1930s romantic-comedy perfection, the second film adaptation of a hit 1928 play by Philip Barry. Grant is at his charismatic best as the acrobatically inclined free spirit who, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée’s aristocratic family-setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister (Hepburn). With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, Holiday is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection on what it truly means to live well.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Holiday (1930), a previous adaptation of Philip Barry’s play, directed by Edward H. Griffith
New conversation between filmmaker and distributor Michael Schlesinger and film critic Michael Sragow
Audio excerpts from an American Film Institute oral history with director George Cukor, recorded in 1970 and ’71
Costume gallery  
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Dana Stevens
New cover based on a theatrical poster

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