The heiress

DVD - 2019

"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of romance. Are his smoldering professions of love sincere, as she believes they are? Or is Catherine's calculating father (Ralph Richardson) correct in judging Morris a venal fortune seeker? A graceful drawing-room drama boasting Academy Award-winning costume design by Edith Head, The ...Heiress is also a piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, in a triumph of classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced"--Container.

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Genres
Feature films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection [2019]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Corporate Author
Paramount Pictures, Inc (production company)
Other Authors
William Wyler, 1902-1981 (film director), Ruth Goetz (screenwriter), Augustus Goetz (actor), Olivia De Havilland (-), Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, 1902-1983, Miriam Hopkins, 1902-1972, Vanessa Brown, 1928-1999, Mona Freeman, Ray Collins, 1889-1965, Betty Linley, 1890-1951, Selena Royle, 1904-1983, Henry James, 1843-1916
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
Item Description
From the play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, suggested by the Henry James novel Washington Square ;
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer; New conversation between screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme; New program about the film's costumes featuring costume collector and historian Larry McQueen; The Costume Designer, a restored 1950 short film featuring costume designer Edith Head; Appearance by actor Olivia de Havilland on a 1986 episode of The Paul Ryan Show; Excerpts from a 1973 tribute to director William Wyler on The Merv Griffin Show, featuring Wyler, de Havilland, and actors Bette Davis and Walter Pidgeon;; Wyler's acceptance speech from The American Film Institute's 1976 Salute to William Wyler; Interview with actor Ralph Richardson filmed in 1981 for the documentary Directed by Willam Wyler; Trailer; An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Leo Tover ; editor, William Hornbeck ; music, Aaron Copland.
ISBN
9781681435800
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Review by Library Journal Review

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