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    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

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    Date: 4 Mar 2015 12:58:00
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
    DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 01:35:41 | 4,31 Gb
    Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
    Genre: Comedy, Drama | The Criterion Collection #158

    Director: Anthony Asquith
    Stars: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison

    Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen.

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    The Importance of Being Earnest is a perfect farce because it takes a nigh-impossible premise, builds on it with one unlikely event after another, yet never loses sight of logic. Character-based humor blossoms in every situation. Even better, it all means something - a witty dissection of the hypocrisy and obsessions of Victorian England. The comedy is simultaneously broad and razor-sharp: even the character names are grossly descriptive.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    Mr. Wilde's veddy proper Britain is populated by impossible buffalos like the imposing Lady Bracknell, who polices the social order like a bloodhound. The doddering couple, Canon Chausable and Letitia Prism are able to pursue a natural courtship, but only because they're both pushing 70. To achieve a manly independence, the male leads of the story must resort to becoming habitual liars and poseurs, constantly risking exposure and humiliation.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    Michael Redgrave's Jack has plenty to hide; his deceptions stem from the mystery of his own birth, as he was found in a lady's handbag in Victoria Station. This social indiscretion makes him terminally unsuitable for marriage into what Lady Bracknell would deem any decent family, no matter how wealthy he is. For his part, Michael Denison's Algernon is a borderline cad, a penniless loafer who can't tell love from a soft marriage to the luscious Cecily. Yet he's just another youthful con artist hoping his deceptions aren't uncovered.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    The women are hilarious beyond description. Cecily and Gwendolyn are both obsessed with their diaries, and dedicated to intricate fantasies that their boyfriends are expected to indulge. Both fall in love for ridiculously superficial reasons (the name Earnest). The velvet-voiced Gwendolyn feigns simple innocence, while guiding Jack like a pro; the fresh-faced Cecily accepts Algy only because he's willing to play along with the elaborate, fictional romantic scenario she's invented in her diary. When the two females square off over what seem to be crossed engagements, verbal sparks fly, while proper decorum is of course observed. The exchange of veiled insults and invectives tumbles from their mouths as ladylike niceties.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    Wilde has no great class issues to pursue. His noble upperclass twits are too ridiculous to stand up to that kind of pressure. The servants we see are dependable and silent, and don't comment on the tomfoolery like a rogue's chorus. Being a farce, characters are sized up in a moment. One look at Jack's butler's face (played by the unruffle-able Richard Wattis of The Prince and the Showgirl, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Abominable Snowman) and we know he exists on the other side of an invisible wall from Jack. Thus, a farce like The Importance of Being Earnest achieves in a couple of seconds what it takes the naturalistic Gosford Park a half hour to establish.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    The other types in the show can't be called supporting players. Their parts are not only almost as large, they have half the good lines. Edith Evans bellows and belittles, using her voice like a club. The Honeymooners' Jackie Gleason has nothing on her, as she reacts violently and audibly ("A HAND - BAGGGG!") to every step of Jack's improbable origin story. Margaret Rutherford has the least screen time but is completely adorable in a wonderful role, that of an ancient spinster drawing a bead on the man of her dreams, the portly, bald Miles Malleson. When she brings up the subject of marriage, her baggy eyes darting about in sheer glee, she's the cutest thing in the show.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [The Criterion Collection #158] [ReUp]

    The Importance of Being Earnest is a fancy Technicolor production where everyone is appropriately trussed up in impossibly stiff costumes. We're used to seeing latter-day recreations of the period styles done either without comment or with a facile cuteness. Here the uncomfortable creations are inseparable from the characters, from Bracknell's funereal ton of fabric, to Cecily and Gwendolyn's ornate creations, that look as if vines of multi-colored lace grew up their arms and neck. Jack and Algy are trussed into a selection of stiff-looking day coats, including one white, "Tennis, anyone?" number that must be hideous on purpose. When Jack proposes, he has to calculate before going down on one knee.
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    Disc Features:
    - New digital transfer
    - Rare production stills
    - Original theatrical trailer
    - English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
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