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Sylvia Scarlett / an RKO Radio Picture ; produced by Pandro S. Berman ; screen play by Gladys Unger, John Collier and Mortimer Offner ; directed by George Cukor.
LIBRA DVD 017 368
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972. Sylvia Scarlett, author.
- Series:
- Katharine Hepburn 100th anniversary collection ; disc 5.
- Katharine Hepburn 100th anniversary collection ; disc 5
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972--Film adaptations.
- Mackenzie, Compton.
- Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972.
- Fathers and daughters--England--London--Drama.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Thieves--England--London--Drama.
- Thieves.
- Male impersonators--England--London--Drama.
- Male impersonators.
- Swindlers and swindling--England--London--Drama.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Standard version.
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In English; optional subtitles in English or French.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Sylvia has stolen some expensive lace which they hope to smuggle from France to England. To elude police, she cuts her hair short and disguises herself as a man. She and her father Henry, board a ship, and a drunken Henry confesses their scheme to Jimmy Monkley, a jewel smuggler. To divert attention away from him, Jimmy snitches on Henry to the customs officials, and Henry has to pay up or be arrested. Later, Sylvia confronts Jimmy on a train and punches him. Jimmy apologizes and cuts them in on a scheme to steal jewels from a wealthy family, using his friend Maudie, a maid in the house. But Sylvia, still disguised as a man, talks Maudie out of it, and she responds with a kiss. Maudie and Sylvia's father fall in love and Maudie, an aspiring actress, invests money in a show to open in a seaside resort. There they are invited to the mansion of a wealthy artist, Michael Fane, who is unsettled by Sylvia's obvious affections before finally discovering that she's a woman.
- Participant:
- Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Joseph August; editor, Jane Loring; music, Roy Webb.
- Notes:
- Title from disc label.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1936.
- Based on The early life and adventures of Sylvia Scarlett / by Compton MacKenzie.
- Special features: short film, Los Angeles: wonder city of the West : a FitzPatrick Traveltalk [short film]; Alias St. Nick [cartoon]
- Aspect ration 1.33:1.
- Contains:
- Los Angeles, wonder city of the West
- Alias St. Nick
- ISBN:
- 9781419848339
- 141984833X
- OCLC:
- 436869565
- Publisher Number:
- 085391137047 (set)
- 113704 Warner Home Video (set)
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