Originally released as a motion picture in 1934.
Based on the short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Special features: Disc 1: New 4K digital restoration; Frank Capra Jr. remembers... (1999 interview, Frank Capra Jr. discusses his father and the origins of the film); Screwball comedy? (new conversation between Molly Haskell and Phillip Lopate, discuss the film and its relationship to the screwball comedy genre); Fultah Fisher's boarding house (1921 short based on the Rudyard Kipling poem "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House" was the first film directed by Frank Capra; starring Mildred Owens; new score composed and performed by Donald Sosin); Trailer. Disc 2: Frank Capra's American dream (a 1997 feature length documentary, directed by Ken Bowser and hosted by filmmaker, producer, and actor Ron Howard, traces the life and career of director Frank Capra; features interviews with colleagues of Capra's, film historians, and contemporary actors and directors who were influenced by Capra's work); "American Film Institute salute to Frank Capra" (1982 televised version of the American Film Institute ceremony that presented a lifetime achievement award to director Frank Capra).
Photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Gene Havlick ; musical director, Louis Silvers ; composer, Howard Jackson ; art director, Stephen Goosson ; costume design, Robert Kalloch.
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale, Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; monaural; aspect ratio 1.33:1.
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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