Preston Sturges The Filmmaker Collection - DVDR 1940-1948

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Title: Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection. Christmas in July, The Great McGinty (1940) Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve (1941) The Palm Beach Story (1942) Hail the Conquering Hero, The Great Moment (1944) Unfaithfully 

Yours (1948)
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Genre: Various
Year: 1940
Link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002545/
Source: 5xDVD5+3xDVD9
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Length: 700 min.
Tags: masterpiece '40s
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Video Type: NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
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Audio Format: Dolby Digital
Languages: English (see each film for details)
Subtitles: English, French and Spanish (see each film for details)


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This is a tribute to an amazing director!
Preston Sturges was one of America's great filmmakers. He was the first Hollywood writer to direct his own script, and thus the credit "written and directed by" first appeared before his name in THE GREAT MCGINTY. He won the 

first Academy Award ever given for Best Original Screenplay for the script. He went on a creative streak unparalleled in the history of film, writing and directing six masterpieces and one that should have been:
CHRISTMAS IN JULY, THE PALM BEACH STORY, THE LADY EVE, SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO and THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK.

His films are still very funny and very much alive. They have been the subject of nearly 100 film festivals throughout the world, most recently by the British Film Institute in May 2000.

This incredible set includes THREE of the "1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE" stuff, (The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story).

Four of the films are the original from The Filmmaker Collection Boxset, the rest three of the Boxset have been replaced with the Criterion discs with significant improvement in picture quality AND custom audio / subs and the 

last one is another Criterion disc that is not included in the Boxset (Unfaithfully Yours).


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DISC 1
THE GREAT McGINTY   1940
Political Comedy  
Stars Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: August 23, 1940
Synopsis - Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal 

as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English, French and Spanish
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd5
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD distributor..: UNIVERSAL
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DISC 2
CHRISTMAS IN JULY   1940
Romantic Comedie  
Stars Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr, William Demarest
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1940
Synopsis - An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put 

together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for 

the consequences.

Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English and Spanish(add)
Subtitles........: English, French and Spanish
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd5
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD distributor..: UNIVERSAL
Program..........: ANYDVD
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Many Graces to TURKANA & ORELLANA for the Spanish Audio



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DISC 3
LADY EVE   1941
Romantic Comedy  
Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: February 25, 1941
Synopsis - Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To 

get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him.
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DVD distributor..: THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English and Spanish(add)
Video Format.....: 4:3
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DISC 4
SULLIVAN´S TRAVELS   1941
Romantic Comedy  
Stars Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: December 1941
Synopsis - Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off 

in tramp's clothing with a single dime in his pocket to experience poverty first-hand, and gets some reality shock.
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DVD distributor..: THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English and Spanish(add)
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd9
DVD Format.......: NTSC
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DISC 5
THE PALM BEACH STORY   1942
Romantic Comedy  
Stars Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: November 7, 1942
Synopsis - Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman 

being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom 

has plans to stop her.

Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English, French and Spanish
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd5
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD distributor..: UNIVERSAL
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DISC 6
THE GREAT MOMENT   1944
Drama-Biopic  
Stars Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: September 6, 1944
Synopsis - In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost (William Demarest) goes to a Boston pawnshop and redeems a silver medal, inscribed to "Dr. W.T.G. Morton, the Benefactor of Mankind, with the Gratitude of Humanity." Frost drives to 

a country farmhouse and gives the medal to Morton's widow, Elizabeth Morton (Betty Field) who explains to her daughter, Betty (Donivee Lee), that Frost was the first person given anesthesia by her father, Boston dentist Dr. 

W.T.G. Morton (Joel McCrea.) The story flashes back 20 years to find Morton being wildly acclaimed by medical students as the man whose discovery of "letheon" had forever ended pain as, before that day, even amputations 

were performed with the patient fully conscious. "Letheron", unknown to everybody but Morton and Elizabeth, is simply highly rectified sulphuric ether - cleaning fluid - easily obtainable at a pharmacy. By keeping the secret, Dr. 

Morton could be rich, but he had rather be poor than see a girl strapped to an operating table under the knife of Dr. Warren (Harry Carey), and he reveals his secret to a group of surgeons in the hospital operating theatre. With 

his secret out, and all hope of personal reward gone, with the possible exception of proceeds from his glass inhaler, he gets the news that Congress has voted him a reward of $100,000, and also learns that the patent on his 

inhaler has been infringed. President Pierce, under pressure from newspapers inflamed by jealous medical rivals of Morton, refuses to sign the bill until Morton has proven patient infringement.

Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English, French and Spanish
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd5
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD distributor..: UNIVERSAL
Program..........: ANYDVD
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DISC 7
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO   1944
Comedy  
Stars Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: August 9, 1944
Synopsis - Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. 

While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They 

make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his 

heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.

Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English, French and Spanish
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd5
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD distributor..: UNIVERSAL
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UNFAITHFULLY YOURS   1948
Romantic Comedy, Music, Romance
Stars Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger, Lionel Stander, Edgar Kennedy, Al Bridge, Julius Tannen, Torben Meyer
Directors: Preston Sturges
Theatrical Release Date: December 10, 1948
Synopsis - In this pitch-black comedy from legendary writer-director Preston Sturges, Rex Harrison stars as Sir Alfred De Carter, a world-famous symphony conductor consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair. 

During a concert, the jealous De Carter entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three separate orchestral works. But when he attempts to put his murderous fantasies into action, nothing works out quite as planned. A 

brilliantly performed mixture of razor-sharp dialogue and uproarious slapstick, Unfaithfully Yours is a true classic from a grand master of screen comedy.
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DVD distributor..: THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Country..........: USA
Audio............: Stereo 2.0. English
Subtitles........: English and Spanish(Two classes-add)
Video Format.....: 4:3
DVD Source.......: dvd9
DVD Format.......: NTSC
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