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The awful truth / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Leo McCarey production ; screen play, Viña Delmar ; directed by Leo McCarey.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 917.
- Criterion collection ; 917
- Standardized Title:
- Awful truth (Motion picture : 1937)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944--Film adaptations.
- Richman, Arthur.
- Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Divorce--Drama.
- Divorce.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Screwball comedy films.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Comedy films.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : illustrations : 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby Digital
- full screen (1.37:1)
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead. Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistable"--Container.
- Participant:
- Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editor, Al Clark ;music, Ben Oakland; lyrics, Milton Drake.
- Notes:
- Based on The awful truth / by Arthur Richman.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1937.
- Special features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey; New video essay by film critic David Cairns on Cary Grant's performance; Illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert; An essay by Molly Haskell.
- ISBN:
- 9781681434230
- 1681434237
- OCLC:
- 1027222650
- Publisher Number:
- 715515213516
- CC2873DDVD The Criterion Collection
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