Charley's aunt

DVD 2007

Charley and Jack pressure fellow student Fancourt to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

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Uniform Title:

Charley's aunt (Motion picture : 1941)

Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
monochrome
digital
optical
mixed
Dolby
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video rating: G

Notes:

Special features: Commentary with film historian Randy Skredvedt; theatrical trailer
Title from container
From the play by Brandon Thomas
Originally released as a motion picture in 1941
Cinematography, J. Peverell Marley ; art directors, Richard Day, Nathan Juran ; editor, Robert Bischoff ; music, Alfred Newman ; costume designer, Travis Banton
Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen, Laird Cregar, Arleen Whelan, Richard Haydn
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono
For private home use only
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired
Can be viewed subtitled in English, French or Spanish

Control Number:

526811

UPC:

024543440642
024543586173

Other Authors:

Baxter, Anne
Benny, Jack, 1894-1974
Cregar, Laird, 1913-1944
Ellison, James, 1910-1993
Francis, Kay, 1905-1968
Haydn, Richard, 1905-1985
Mayo, Archie L., 1891-1968
Owen, Reginald, 1887-1972
Perlberg, William, 1899-1969
Seaton, George, 1911-1979
Thomas, Brandon, 1848-1914. Charley's aunt
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Whelan, Arleen, 1914-1993

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