History is made at night / Walter Wanger presents ; directed by Frank Borzage ; screen play, Gene Towne, Graham Baker ; produced by Walter Wanger ; released through United Artists.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 17 cm, folded to 17 x 12)
Container of (work): History is made at night (Motion picture)
Notes:
Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive. Title from title frames. Originally released in 1937; copyright held by United Artists Corporation. Special features: new conversation between author HerveĢ Dumont (Frank Borzage) and film historian Peter Cowie ; interview with Farran Smith Nehme on Borzage's obsession with romantic love ; audio excerpts from an interview with Bozage in 1958; restoration demostration; radio adaptation of the film from the series The Screen Guild Theater, made in 1940 ; essay by critic Dan Callahan.
Summary:
"Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, History Is Made at Night is a sublime paean to love from Frank Borsage, classic Hollywood's supreme poet of carnal and spiritual desire. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an unhappy socialite (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)--and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe. Lent a palpable erotic charge by the chemistry between its leads, this delirious vision of lovers beset by the world passes through a dizzying array of tonal shifts--from melodrama to romantic comedy to noir to disaster thriller--smoothly guided by Borsage's unwavering allegiance to the power of love""--Container.
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