Based upon the play "Birthday" by Lazlo Bus-Fekete. Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar, Marjorie Main, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: Conversation frm 2005 between critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris; Creativity with Bill Moyers; Audio seminar with Raphaelson and Richard Corliss; home recordings of Ernst Lubitsch playing the piano; trailer; essay by William Paul.
Summary:
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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