Based on the story by Monckton Hoffe. Originally released as a motion picture in 1941. Special features: Audio commentary form 2001 with Marian Keane; Introduction from 2001 by Peter Bogdonavich; Interview from 2020 with Tom Sturges and friends; new video essay by David Cairns; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1942; audio recording of "Up the Amazon"; essay by Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1946 profile of Surges from Life Magazine. Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Janet Beecher.
Summary:
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
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