Kino: 4K Remaster of Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce Detailed for Blu-ray
HomeKino: 4K Remaster of Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce Detailed for Blu-ray
Posted May 8, 2018 03:41 PM by Webmaster
Kino Loarber have officially announced their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Billy Wilder's film Irma la Douce (1963), starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Grace Lee Whitney, and Hope Holiday. The release will be available for purchase on July 17.
Synopsis: This bawdy, Academy Award-winning farce, which reunites The Apartment's Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (in a Best Actress Oscar-nominated performance), is a "charming antic romantic comedy" (The New York Times) directed and co-written by Billy Wilder.
Meet Nestor (Jack Lemmon), a young man with a very complicated love life. Employed as business manager to Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine) - a proud and profitable lady of the streets - the poor guy had gone and fallen in love with her! So how do you keep a popular Parisiennne like Irma faithful? Simple. Disguise yourself as an elderly English Lord who immediately becomes Irma's sole client and means of support! But what's a jealous manager to do when the illustrious Irma claims that the man she's really in love with is not the smitten Nestor but the dotty old lord himself?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Reversible cover art
Synopsis: This bawdy, Academy Award-winning farce, which reunites The Apartment's Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (in a Best Actress Oscar-nominated performance), is a "charming antic romantic comedy" (The New York Times) directed and co-written by Billy Wilder.
Meet Nestor (Jack Lemmon), a young man with a very complicated love life. Employed as business manager to Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine) - a proud and profitable lady of the streets - the poor guy had gone and fallen in love with her! So how do you keep a popular Parisiennne like Irma faithful? Simple. Disguise yourself as an elderly English Lord who immediately becomes Irma's sole client and means of support! But what's a jealous manager to do when the illustrious Irma claims that the man she's really in love with is not the smitten Nestor but the dotty old lord himself?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, author of How Did Lubitsch Do It?
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Reversible Art
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Reversible cover art