Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Year: 1942
Time: 99 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 670
Licensor
Westchester Films
Release Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2013
MSRP: $39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc
1.37:1
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region A
New audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat
Pinkus’s Shoe Palace, a 1916 German silent short directed by and starring Ernst Lubitsch, with a new piano score by Donald Sosin
Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary on the director’s career
Two episodes of The Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Ernst Lubitsch, and To Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman
A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1942 New York Times op-ed by Ernest Lehman