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Merrily we go to Hell / a Paramount picture ; Paramount presents ; directed by Dorothy Arzner ; screen play by Edwin Justus Mayer.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 863 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1076.
- Criterion collection ; 1076
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lucas, Cleo--Film adaptations.
- Lucas, Cleo.
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Alcoholics.
- Alcoholics--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Social problem films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustration ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12).
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- monochrome
- black and white
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1); Dolby mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby Digital
- full screen
- NTSC
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication and wit--a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and Sylvia Sidney turn in extraordinary performances as an urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye, leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early-feminist commentary on modern marriage"--Container.
- Participant:
- Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, George Irving, Esther Howard, Florence Britton, Charles Coleman, Cary Grant, Kent Taylor.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, David Abel; editor, Jane Loring.
- Notes:
- Based on the play "I Jerry take thee, Joan," by Cleo Lucas.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.
- Full screen (1.37:1).
- Special features: Dorothy Arzner: Longing for Women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler; new video essay by film historian Cari Beauchamp; essay by film scholar Judith Mayne.
- Contains:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Lucas, Cleo. I Jerry take thee, Joan.
- ISBN:
- 9781681438320
- 1681438321
- OCLC:
- 1241711424
- Publisher Number:
- 715515258715
- CC3251DDVD The Criterion Collection
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