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| Genre/Form: | Romantic comedy films Feature films Video recordings for the hearing impaired Feature films - United States Film adaptations Drama |
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| Named Person: | László Bús-Fekete |
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ernst Lubitsch; Samson Raphaelson; Don Ameche; Gene Tierney; Charles Coburn; László Bús-Fekete; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Criterion Collection (Firm) |
| ISBN: | 1559409614 9781559409612 |
| OCLC Number: | 59824461 |
| Language Note: | Subtitled for the hearing impaired (SDH). |
| Notes: | Based on the play Birthday by Lazlo Bus-Fekete. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Special features: New video conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris; Creativity with Bill Moyers: A Portrait of Samson Raphaelson (1982), a 30-minute program exploring the screenwriter's life and career; audio seminar with Raphaelson and film critic Richard Corliss recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in 1977; Lubitsch home piano recordings; original theatrical trailer; a new essay by film scholar William Paul. |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Edward J. Cronjager ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; music, Alfred Newman. |
| Cast: | Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar, Marjorie Main, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD, region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono. |
| Series Title: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 291. |
| Other Titles: | Heaven can wait (Motion picture : 1943) Heaven can wait |
| Responsibility: | Twentieth Century Fox presents ; Ernst Lubitsch's production ; screenplay by Samson Raphaelson ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 183497 |
Abstract:
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
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