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The Lady Eve (The Criterion Collection)

Barbara Stanwyck (Actor), Henry Fonda (Actor), Preston Sturges (Director) Rated:
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Genre Comedy/Classic Comedies
Format Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Black & White
Contributor Bess Flowers, Charles Coburn, Martha O'Driscoll, Barbara Stanwyck, Dora Clement, Robert Greig, Eric Blore, Almeda Fowler, Luis Alberni, Preston Sturges, Eugene Pallette, Henry Fonda, Ray Flynn (IV), Melville Cooper, Sam Ash, Janet Beecher, Gayne Whitman, William Demarest, Abdullah Abbas, Jimmy Conlin, Pauline Drake See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 33 minutes
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Naturalist son of a wealthy tycoon comes out of the jungle after a year up the Amazon studying snakes. The games begin when, on board ship, he falls for a female cardsharp and they split on bad terms. Later she disguises herself and returns to tease and torment her former beau.

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Criterion's digital transfer, created from a 35mm duplicate negative, is luminous and so sharp you can see the grain in the film. The commentary by film scholar Marian Keane is informed but academic and gets a bit cerebral as she extends her theme of role-playing to the entire film itself, constantly reminding us of the Hollywood machinery just out of frame. Peter Bogdanovich offers a more down-to-earth appreciation in his short video introduction, and James Harvey writes a lovely essay in the accompanying booklet. The disc also features the "Lux Radio Theater" adaptation performed by cast members Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Coburn (Ray Milland takes the Fonda role), Edith Head's costume designs with written comments from her memoirs (in which she describes her doomed efforts to create clothes for the snake!), stills and publicity materials, and the trailer. --Sean Axmaker

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2250559
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Preston Sturges
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Black & White
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 33 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005JH9B
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Bricktop
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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I have loved the movie for many decades and finally I decided to purchase my own copy. I love it. It arrived in a timely manner and without any damage. About the only way I could be happier is if I turned out to be like the millionth customer or something and I won the film for free.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best comedies!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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One of the best comedies! Fabulous acting, fabulous characters.
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Douglas M
5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect almost black comedy
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2005
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One of the joys of the DVD revolution is the ability to study closely favourite films such as "The Lady Eve" and learn so much about its construction etc from commentaries and other extras offered. This Criterion offering is expensive but there is so much on offer. Thanks so much.

The film itself is perfect - script, direction, acting, photography, costumes, score - the lot. You can't help feel too that they had a ball making it. The rapport of the leads is palpable. The plot involves the seduction, twice, of a naive millionaire by a sexy card sharp. The dialogue is very clever and Henry Fonda performs at least 3 hilarious pratfalls. Stanwyck performs a marvellous imitation of an English Lady and although she is very attractive and amusing, there is a cynicism at the heart of her performance which conveys much deeper emotions. When she is sad, she is deeply moving.

With all those great players, it is probably churlish to single out Stanwyck but, what the hell, the title of the film refers to her and for anyone familiar with the cold hard Barbara from so many other films, the sexy and attractive Barbara here is a revelation. She is unique and memorable.

The commentary attached to the DVD is a scholarly analysis of the script and direction, carefully noting all the undercurrents and cynicism of Sturges world. While it leaves no stone unturned in the pursuit of the potential of Sturge's ideas, it misses the opportunity to simply "sit back, relax and enjoy the comedy". Overanalysis can kill the spontaneity and at times the thought process of the commentator is a bit obscure. Peter Bogdanavich's interview is more laid back and therefore easier to enjoy.

The DVD also contains stills from the making of the film, information about Edith Head and the costumes and a few artifacts including a letter of appreciation from Stanwyck to Sturges. This is a comprehensive package about all aspects of the film and therefore worth the high cost.
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R. Ginocchio
4.0 out of 5 stars Real good, but not a Sturges best
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014
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I love Preston Sturges films and was really excited to see this one for the first time. While the movie gets uniformly rave reviews, I do have to say I found it not nearly a sharp as a number of his other outings which had better dialog, plot lines, and satisfying endings. The movie is very good, just not a classic like Sullivan's Travels, the Palm Beach Story, or the under-appreciated Christmas in July or Hail the Conquering Hero. All those films have a little more humor, a little more heart, and bang up performances by the usual cast of crazies. Frankly Henry Fonda may also be one setback of this film too as he is not great in too many comedies I've seen. Stanwyck is naturally great in everything.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Lady Eve
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2023
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5.0 out of 5 stars Barbara Stanwyck Does It Again !!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2013
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Hey Everyone,

If you ever saw Barbara Stanwyck in CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT, you'll surely LOVE HER in THE LADY EVE !! I only wish I were alive when she was still around doing movies like these! (I didn't come along 'til '53, too small to appreciate her just yet) --wow -- what a "dish" (as in "hmmmmm good")! Her tantalizing dry sense of humor, is mixed with some "girly tears" when she realizes that she's actually in love with this man (Henry Fonda) on the cruise ship that she's been trying to scam amongst other things! Ohhhh Barbara -- where were you when I was looking around for girlfriends??! I'd have snatched you up in a flash -- you're sooo amazing -- hey - has everyone forgotten about "personality, charisma, charm, humor, and other more important aspects of romance, than just mere "looks" ??!! Take a hint, Americas Top Model (and other programs that exalt appearance over everything else that's important in a person) -- calling all men (who by the way, have more to them than just being a "hunk" for lack of better clarity) -- you'll love this girl --- she does it again, meaning -- right when you think she's "played out" in other movies (spent all her charm), she surprises you again (and again, and again) -- which makes you fall in love with her "all over again" !!!! Buy the movie, guys -- and find out what a "charming woman" really means, for real !!! (Oh yes, and Henry Fonda plays his part perfectly, too -- just thought we'd mention that aspect, which helps to augment Barbara Stanwyck's role of playing off him)!
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SCS
3.0 out of 5 stars This was odd.
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2022
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I read so many great reviews for this and it came up in an old movies for kids movie, but it was just weird and awkward. Also, not really a fam movie. Not too racy- mostly implied references, but just not funny.
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edoarda
5.0 out of 5 stars Storia Improbabile ma seducente
Reviewed in Italy on January 1, 2022
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Deliziosa commedia con grandi interpreti , assai poco verosimile ma che importa?
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HorseyGirl
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite film
Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2020
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An absolute gem! Brilliant and witty writing, great actors from Stanwyck to Fonda, plus the always hilarious Eric Blore and William Demarest. Oh, and Eugene Pallatte! It sets the gold standard for comedy, chemistry and casting, in my opinion. Stanwyck was never lovelier, nor Henry Fonda more handsome. Even the costumes and set design are gorgeous. Really, it's a comedy for the ages, and one where the female lead is the smartest one in the room, from beginning to end! ENJOY!!
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Filmaddict
5.0 out of 5 stars Reicher Trottel läutert gerissene Falschspielerin
Reviewed in Germany on October 11, 2016
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Die Stanwyck und Coburn sind als Tochter und Vater ein Gaunerpaar, das sich hochstapelnd in die reiche Gesellschaft mogelt, um sie mit falschem Kartenspiel auszubeuten. Als die Beiden herausfinden, dass sich an Bord des Passagierschiffs, das sie zu ihrem Jagdgebiet erkoren hatten, ein millionenschwerer Erbe einer Bierbrauerei befindet, planen sie, ihn zu schröpfen. Dumm nur, dass sich Jean alsbald in den Tolpatsch verliebt. Doch als er ihr einen Heiratsantrag macht, wie soll sie ihm ihre wahre Identität eröffnen? Er kriegt sie ohne sie heraus und wendet sich zutiefst entrüstet und enttäuscht von ihr ab. Wie sie ihn schließlich zurückgewinnt, macht die Geschichte des Films aus. Sturges, Stanwyck und Fonda machen daraus eine Screwball- und Slapstickkomödie, die ihresgleichen sucht. Fonda kehrt einen Komödianten heraus, den man diesem Meister ernster Rollen nicht zugetraut hätte. Die Dialoge sprühen von Witz und man kommt aus dem Lachen nicht heraus. Ganz nebenbei erstrahlt die Stanwyck auf dem Gipfel ihrer Schönheit und Attraktivität. Aus der zweiten Reihe erkennt man einige Gesichter, die schon manchen Film zu einem sehenswerten Kunstwerk gestaltet haben. So auch diesen!
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5.0 out of 5 stars romcom created from ADAM'S RIB
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2008
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Preston Sturges indeed should be proud for creating a rogue of a rowdy affair about battle of sexes entailing romantic reluctance and sexual dilemmas and the paradoxical idealism of true love examined as a romantic comedy ,within a sharp script which discovers the comic genius of HENRY Fonda ,but the limelight is stolen as always by BARBRA Stanwyck as JEAN and LADY Eve,without her it would be impossible to contemplate a movie so perfect in comic timing and an emotional harmony connotating a simple plot ,yet so profoundly rich in affect as to make present cinema look pathetic after 70 odd years of being created .

If this was the archetype of the hollywood romcom ,then i regret to say that Hollywood is in stone age today compared to the forties as this works at every dimension and all the human senses are satiated besides the sense of style and intellectual curiosity .

It does so by an impossibly ingenious plot in a delicious presentation where frothy comedy has already touched you so deeply in heart and mind that you accept the characters as bigger than life with conviction .
Henry Fonda is charles Pike a rather shy introverted billionaire and an eligible bachelor who indulges as an ophiologist in spare time and is looked after by a delightful guardian played by Demarest .

He boards a cruise ship after an Amazon river trip and immediately becomes the ogling focus of all female species abroad including Jean who is part of a triumvirate team of con artists and cardsharps headed by her father colonel Harrington played by a wry Charles Coburn ,as they set about to target and victimise the vulnerable billionaire with jean turning her wicked feminine charms on the vulnerable victim and the two leads start a whirlwind courtship where jean somewhere falls truly for pike and thus puts an end to her father's malicious plan to fleece the naive young man .

Unfortunately Pike discovers their true identity and in a rash encounter callously breaks Jean's heart who then decides to get even and sets about on an adventure as a disguised english aristocrat lady eve which is both about love and vengeance .

The superlative dialogue and the triumphant secretive directorial style of preston sturges is beyond comparison or analysis as he is beyond and above all others with a stupendous mixture of slapstick and subtle humour .
This is totally lacking in the cinema of today where you usually breed inadvertent contempt for half baked characters and dizzy dialogues .

This movie is set on a cruise liner and the Pike country estate within gorgeous indoors and outdoors and plays in a train and ship compartment but it is so naturally balanced within a graceful style that it becomes enormously spacious and widely arousable in every site with an enhanced vision with costumes that are the epitome of classic French vogue and haute couture .

A special mention for Henry Fonda as the stoic,naive but charming millionaire who had the courage to play the buffoon to gentlemanly perfection which can also be called comic genius and also to EUGENE PALETTE who plays his father as a victimised husband in a great performance .

A great screwball movie dedicated to the paradox of the lighter side of social discrimination and the delightfully essential sin committed by Adam and Eve in their hour of damndest glory ,this is a tribute to the golden age of American cinema .
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5.0 out of 5 stars Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck are outstanding in this excellent movie. Criterion quality version was excellent
Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2016
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Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck are outstanding in this excellent movie. Criterion quality version was excellent. Would highly recommend this movie.
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