History is made at night

Blu-ray 2021

"Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, History Is Made at Night is a sublime paean to love from Frank Borsage, classic Hollywood's supreme poet of carnal and spiritual desire. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an unhappy socialite (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)--and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across contin...

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Jealousy Drama

Love Drama

Rich people Drama

Separated people Drama

Spouses Drama

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama

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Comedy films Drama Feature films Fiction films Melodramas (Motion pictures) Romance films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Uniform Title:

History is made at night (Motion picture)

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 17 cm, folded to 17 x 12)
4 3/4 in
digital
optical
mono
videodisc
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray
region A

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

Aspect ratio 1.37:1
Originally released in 1937
Title from container
Special features: new conversation between author Hervé Dumont (Frank Borzage) and film historian Peter Cowie ; interview with Farran Smith Nehme on Borzage's obsession with romantic love ; audio excerpts from an interview with Bozage in 1958; restoration demostration; radio adaptation of the film from the series The Screen Guild Theater, made in 1940 ; essay by critic Dan Callahan
Additional dialogue, Vincent Lawrence, David Hertz ; director of photography, David Abel ; musical direction, Alfred Newman ; film editor, Margaret Clancy ; art director, Alexander Toluboff ; costumes. Bernard Newman
Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive
Requires Blu-ray player
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

LCCN:

2022600636

Control Number:

3222553

UPC:

715515257411

Other Authors:

Abel, David, 1883-1973, director of photography
Arthur, Jean, 1900-1991, actor
Baker, Graham, 1883-1950, screenwriter
Borzage, Frank, film director
Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978, actor
Carrillo, Leo, actor
Clancey, Margaret, editor of moving image work
Clive, Colin, 1900-1937, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970, musical director
Newman, Bernard, 1903-1966, costume designer
Toluboff, Alexander, art director
Towne, Gene, 1904-1979, screenwriter
Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968, presenter, film producer

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