| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Lady Vanishes (Blu-Ray) (1938) December 6th Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99 |   |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Design for Living (1933) December 6th Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99 | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Design for Living (Blu-Ray) (1933) December 6th Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99 | |
Previously released by Criterion in 2007, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938) will make its Blu-Ray debut on December 6th. All the bonus features from the previous release will carry over.
Out on the same day will be Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933) on Standard and Blu. Released in SD by Universal in 2005, Design gets the Criterion treatment with great bonus features (below) in addition to being presented in a sparkling new transfer.
Design for Living
Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult "gentleman's" agreement, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
A relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable—or unwilling—to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light.
BONUS FEATURES:
- “The Clerk,” starring Charles Laughton—director Ernst Lubitsch’s segment of the 1932 film If I Had a Million, which he made just before Design for Living
- Selected-scene commentary by film professor William Paul
- Play of the Week: A Choice of Coward, a 1964 British television production of the play Design for Living, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward
- New interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and Ben Hecht’s screen adaptation of the Coward play
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan
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