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The final film completed by Ernst Lubitsch, this zany, zippy comedy of manners, set in England on the cusp of World War II, is one of the worldly-wise director’s most effervescent creations. Jennifer Jones shines in a rare comedic turn as Cluny Brown, 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 (Charles Boyer), an eccentric Continental exile who has fled the Nazis but is still worried about where his next meal is coming from. Sending up British class hierarchy with Lubitsch’s famously light touch, Cluny Brown is a topsy-turvy farce that says nuts to the squirrels and squirrels to the nuts.
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TITLE...........: Cluny Brown (1946)
STARS...........: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker
DIRECTOR........: Ernst Lubitsch
WRITERS.........: Elizabeth Reinhardt, Samuel Hoffenstein
GENRE...........: Romance, Comedy
TOMATOMETER.....: 94/79
IMDB SCORE......: 7.4
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038419
RUNTIME.........: 1h 40mn
SIZE............: 5.78 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-08-22
CHECKSUM........: F8D0E555BF2FAACA3FD6F9D9B666A8A8
Extras
• Screen Director's Playhouse, Episode 78 - Cluny Brown
• Squirrels to the Nuts - Critics Molly Haskell and Farran Smith Nehme.
• The Lubitsch Touch - Critic Bernard Eisenschitz on Ernst Lubitsch's career.
• Kristin Thompson - Video essay by film scholar Kristin Thompson.
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