The Palm Beach Story (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
Love is fickle! Love is is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 28, 2014
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Claudette Colbert & Joel McCrea | |
Performer: | Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Torben Meyer & Victor Potel | |
Directed by | Preston Sturges | |
Edited by | Stuart Gilmore | |
Screenwriting by | Preston Sturges | |
Composition by | Victor Young | |
Art Direction by | Hans Dreier & Ernst Fegté | |
Produced by | Paul Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Victor Milner |
Entertainment Reviews:
It should have been a breathless comedy. But only the actors are breathless -- and that from talking so much.
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New York Times
Rudy Vallee turns in his best performance as a gentle, puny millionaire named Hackensacker in this brilliant, simultaneously tender and scalding 1942 screwball comedy by Preston Sturges.
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Chicago Reader
Leave it to Preston Sturges to create the sexiest and most grown-up romantic comedy of his day.
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Seanax.com
This may be the sexiest Colbert ever...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
one of the outright funniest movies of its era, a veritable parade of wicked-rapid dialogue, absurdist narrative loops, and socially subversive attitude
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Q Network Film Desk
Sturges at his confident best.
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Film4
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Even as Colbert and McCrea trade fast-paced dialogue and fall into each others' arms, they sell their characters' marriage as one whose fire desperately needs tending.
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The Dissolve
Product Description:
In THE PALM BEACH STORY, directed by Preston Sturges, Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) dumps her husband because he has no money, then goes searching for a rich bachelor.
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- Sales Rank: 76,834
- UPC: 715515135917
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