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The awful truth
Uniform Title
Awful truth (Motion picture : 1937)
Title
The awful truth / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Leo McCarey production ; screen play, Viña Delmar ; directed by Leo McCarey.
ISBN
9781681434223
1681434229
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : illustrations : 17 cm)
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from credits.
Based on a play by Arthur Richman.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Special features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey; "Tell me lies about Cary Grant," a 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; in booklet, an essay by Molly Haskell.
Director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Al Clark ; music, Ben Oakland ; lyrics, Milton Drake.
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired (SDH).
Summary
"IIn 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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 917
Credits
Director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Al Clark ; music, Ben Oakland ; lyrics, Milton Drake.
Cast
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); LPCM uncompressed monaural.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2872BD The Criterion Collection
Genre/Form
Screwball comedy films.
Romantic comedy films.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Romantic comedy films.
Screwball comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Columbia Pictures Corporation, presenter, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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