Eclipse from the Criterion Collection

Lubitsch Musicals

Edition no. 8

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Release Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $59.95

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Janus Films

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Featuring: Maurice Chevalier, Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Miriam Hopkins, Lupino Lane, Claudette Colbert, Claude Allister, Genevieve Tobin, Lillian Roth, Charlie Ruggles, Zasu Pitts, Charles Ruggles, Eugene Pallette, George Barbier, Tyler Brooke, Roland Young, E. H. Calvert, Hugh O’Connell, John Roche, Josephine Dunn, Edgar Norton, Lionel Belmore, Richard Carle, Albert Conti, Barbara Leonard

Renowned as a silent film pioneer and the man who refined Hollywood comedy with such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch also had another claim to fame: he helped invent the modern movie musical. With the advent of sound and audiences clamoring for "talkies," Lubitsch combined his love of European operettas and his mastery of film to create this entirely new genre. These elegant, bawdy films, made before strict enforcement of the Hays morality code, feature some of the greatest stars of early Hollywood (Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins), as well as that elusive style of comedy that would thereafter be known as "the Lubitsch touch."

Year: 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932
Time: 109 | 90 | 89 | 78 min.