Blu-ray Release: Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Blu-ray Release Date: March 31, 2020
Price: Blu-ray $21.95
Studio: Kino Lorber


From Ernst Lubitsch, the legendary director of To Be or Not to Be and Heaven Can Wait, comes his 1938 not-quite-classic romantic comedy Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, starring screen icons Claudette Colbert (The Palm Beach Story), Gary Cooper (High Noon) and David Niven (Guns of Navarone) with a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.

Colbert portrays Mademoiselle Nicole De Loiselle, the lovely daughter of a destitute aristocrat, who, while vacationing on the French Riviera, catches the eye of dashing millionaire Michael Brandon (Cooper). After a brief courtship, she accepts his marriage proposal, but the bride is shocked to learn that her betrothed has been down the aisle before… seven times. Determined to teach him a lesson, she makes a mockery of their matrimony in a variety of side-splitting situations; but alas, two can play the crazy game of love.

Edward Everett Horton (Top Hat) co-stars as Nicole’s father, the Marquis De Loiselle.

The Bu-ray includes an audio commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.