Cluny Brown
(DVD) 

Title and credits from screen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1946.

Based on the novel by Margery Sharp.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Special features: new 4K digital restoration ; Squirrel to nuts (new conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Farran Smith Nehme on unconventional female characters in Ernst Lubitsch's films) ; new video essay by film scholar Kristin Thompson on Lubitsch's use of reaction shots to create humorous effect ; The Lubitsch touch (an interview with film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz on Lubitsch's career (from 2004)) ; Screen Directors Playhouse / Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1950, featuring Olivia de Havilland and Charles Boyer ; an essay by novelist and essayist Siri Hustevedt (in booklet).

Director of photography, Joseph La Shelle ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; music, Cyril Mockridge.

Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner, Reginald Owen, C. Aubrey Smith, Richard Haydn, Margaret Bannerman, Sara Allgood, Ernest Cossart, Florence Bates, Una O'Connor.

Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric Continental exile who has fled the Nazis but is still worried about where his next meal is coming from.

Rating: Not rated.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Closed-captioned.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; 4:3 presentation (aspect ratio 1.37:1); Dolby digital monaural.