Destry rides again / a Universal picture ; Universal presents ; screen play, Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell, Henry Myers ; a Joe Pasternak production ; directed by George Marshall.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Warren Hymer, Irene Hervey, Una Merkel, Billy Gilbert, Samuel S. Hinds, Jack Carson, Tom Fadden, Virginia Brissac. Title and credits from screen. Full screen (1.35:1). Based on the novel by Max Brand. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features: New 4K digital restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation; new interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith; New interview with Donald Dewey, author of James Stewart: a biography; illustrated audio excerpts from a 1973 oral-history interview with director George Marshall conducted by the American Film Institute; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1945, featuring actors James Stewart and Joan Blondell; an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehma.
Summary:
"Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image andf launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona, in his first of many westerns, with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers--delivered with unmatched bravado by the magnetic Dietrich--come together to create an irresistable, oft-imitated marvel of studio-era craftsmanship"--Container.
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