Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
DVD Format: Double Keep Case, Academy , 1.33:1, Closed Captioned, Black and White
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 1.0
Feature-length BBC documentary on the history of Ealing Studios
Rare, 70-minute talk show appearance by Alec Guinness, from 1977
American Ending
Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs
Original theatrical trailer
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Booklet with a new essay by film critic and historian Philip Kemp
(1949) Alec Guinness pulls the kind of stunt Jerry Lewis and Peter Sellers would later make famous: he plays no less than eight hilarious roles in this classic Ealing Studios comedy. Guinness essays each of the petrified aristocrats in the decaying family tree of scheming black sheep Dennis Price, who's mother was rejected by her aristocratic family, leaving Price determined to take back his due by murdering his way up the inheritance ladder. It’s a bewitchingly blackhearted comedy of class warfare played as sardonic farce, directed with a light touch and dry wit by Robert Hamer. Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood co-star.
Region: 2 (Western Europe, Japan, South Africa, Middle East, Egypt)
Rating:
DVD Format: Snap Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, Pan & Scan , 1.33:1, Black and White, Sides:1 (SS-DL)
DVD Features: Subtitles: French, Audio Track 1: French, PCM Mono, Audio Track 2: English, PCM Mono, Audio Track 3: Spanish, PCM Mono
Album photos
Menus multi-langues
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Format: Box Set, Widescreen Anamorphic, Pan & Scan , Black and White
DVD Features: Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 2.0, Audio Track 2: French, Dolby Digital 2.0
Includes The Man in the White Suit, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Captain's Paradise. All films are black and white with a 1.33 aspect ratio except The Ladykillers (color, 1.66 anamorphic widescreen)
Alec Guinness bio
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The Third Man (1949),
M (1931),
Det sjunde inseglet (1957),
Rashômon (1950),
Pygmalion (1938),
The 39 Steps (1935),
Smultronstället (1957),
Le salaire de la peur (1953),
The Lady Vanishes (1938),
Brief Encounter (1945),
Jules et Jim (1962),
La règle du jeu (1939),
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949),
Jungfrukällan (1960),
La grande illusion (1937),
Ikiru (1952),
La belle et la bête (1946),
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943),
Viridiana (1961),
Ugetsu monogatari (1953),
Jeux interdits (1952),
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953),
Die Büchse der Pandora (1929),
Häxan (1922),
Nóz w wodzie (1962),
Umberto D. (1952),
Orfeu Negro (1959),
El espíritu de la colmena (1973),
Summertime (1955),
Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938),
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952),
Popiól i diament (1958),
Ivan Groznyy I (1944),
Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor (1958),
The Fallen Idol (1948),
Ballada o soldate (1959),
Pépé le Moko (1937),
Lásky jedné plavovlásky (1965),
Il posto (1961),
Richard III (1955),
Le jour se lève (1939),
Nobi (1959),
Lo sceicco bianco (1952),
Ukigusa (1959),
The Love Goddesses (1965),
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
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