The Lady Eve (Criterion Collection)

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	Barbara Stanwyck	Jean
	Henry Fonda	Charles Pike
	Charles Coburn	'Colonel' Harrington
	Eugene Pallette	Mr. Pike
	William Demarest	Muggsy
	Eric Blore	Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
	Melville Cooper	Gerald
	Martha O'Driscoll	Martha
	Janet Beecher	Mrs. Pike
	Robert Greig	Burrows
	Dora Clement	Gertrude
	Luis Alberni	Pike's Chef
	Abdullah Abbas	Man with Potted Palm
	Norman Ainsley	Sir Alfred's Servant
	Mary Akin	Passenger on Ship
	Sam Ash	Husband on Ship
	Harry A. Bailey	Lawyer
	Bobby Barber	Ship's Waiter with Toupee
	Ambrose Barker	Mac
	Dorothy Barrett	Party Guest
	Wilson Benge	First Butler at Party
	Wilda Bennett	Party Guest
	Evelyn Beresford	Party Guest
	Al Bridge	First Steward
	Tex Brodus	Racetrack Patron

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Director	Preston Sturges
Writer	Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges
Producer	Buddy G. DeSylva, Paul Jones, William LeBaron, Albert Lewin
Musician	Phil Boutelje, Charles Bradshaw, Gil Grau, Sigmund Krumgold, John Leipold, Leo Shuken
Photography	Victor Milner

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Bought with Beth on our 30th anniversary at the B&H 50% off sale.


Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fondabumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck’s conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda’s nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her mark, her grift becomes a game of hearts-and she is determined to win it all. One in a string of matchless comedic marvels that Sturges wrote and directed as part of a dazzling 1940s run, this gender-flipped battle-of-wits farce is perhaps his most emotionally satisfying work, tempering its sparkling humor with a streak of tender poignancy supplied by the sensational Stanwyck at her peak.


SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2001 featuring film scholar Marian Keane
Introduction from 2001 by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
New conversation among writer-director Preston Sturges’s biographer and son Tom Sturges; Bogdanovich; filmmakers James L. Brooks and Ron Shelton; and critics Susan King, Leonard Maltin, and Kenneth Turan
New video essay by film critic David Cairns • Costume designs by Edith Head
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1942 featuring Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland
Audio recording from 2013 of “Up the Amazon,” a song from an unproduced stage musical based on the film
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1946 profile of Preston Sturges from Life magazine
New cover by Maurice Vellekoop

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