Heaven can wait
Title:
Heaven can wait
Author:
Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947, producer, director.
Uniform Title:
Heaven can wait (Motion picture : 1943)
Edition:
Special ed.
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
General Note:
Based on the play Birthday by Lazlo Bus-Fekete.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
Special features: New video conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris; Creativity with Bill Moyers: A Portrait of Samson Raphaelson (1982), a 30-minute program exploring the screenwriter's life and career; audio seminar with Raphaelson and film critic Richard Corliss recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in 1977; Lubitsch home piano recordings; original theatrical trailer; a new essay by film scholar William Paul.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781559409612
UPC:
715515016322
Format :
DVD
