The awful truth

DVD 2018

"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...

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Divorce Fiction

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Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944. Awful truth Film adaptations

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Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 917 Criterion collection ; 917 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681434230
0767881494

Edition:

DVD special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (91 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
monochrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital mono
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

Based on a play by Arthur Richman
Title from container
Originally released as a motion picture 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; in booklet, an essay by Molly Haskell
Director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Al Clark ; music, Ben Oakland ; lyrics, Milton Drake
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes
DVD ; fullscreen presentation ; Dolby Digital mono
For private home use only
Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Control Number:

2509071

UPC:

043396077638
715515213516

Other Authors:

Allen, Robert, 1906-1998, actor
Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991, actor
Columbia Pictures Corporation, presenter, production company
Compton, Joyce, 1907-1997, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Cunningham, Cecil, 1888-1959, actor
D'Arcy, Alex, 1908-1996, actor
Dale, Esther, 1885-1961, actor
Delmar, Viña, 1903-1990, screenwriter
Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990, actor
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor
Lamont, Molly, 1910-2001, actor
McCarey, Leo, film director, film producer
motion picture adaptation of (work): Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944. Awful truth

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