Blu-ray, DVD Release: Rich and Strange

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Laurence
– January 13, 2022Find Others: Uncategorized

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Available now
Price: DVD $8.97, Blu-ray $14.97
Studio: Kino Lorber

Rich and Strange, also known as East of Shanghai, is the splendid seafaring 1931 comedy from legendary director Alfred Hitchcock’s early years in the British film industry.

Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife Emily (Joan Barry) lead a boring existence in the London suburbs. When the Hills come into an inheritance from a wealthy uncle, Fred quits his mundane job and they embark on a world cruise to get a taste of the high life. But all does not go as planned as the couple’s voyage becomes fraught with treacherous romantic duplicities. Money does not buy happiness when Hitchcock steers the ship!

A visually dazzling and slyly hilarious portrait of a marriage in crisis, Rich and Strange is a seminal early work from the Master of Suspense!

Bonus features on the Blu-ray include the following:

-4K Restoration by the BFI
-Hitchcock/Truffaut: Icon interviews Icon (Audio)
-Introduction by Noel Simsolo
-Trailers

 

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About Laurence

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.