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Directed by Wesley Ruggles
USA 1935

 

Screen icons Claudette Colbert (The Gilded Lily, It Happened One Night) and Fred MacMurray (Hands Across the Table, Double Indemnity) co-star in this classic screwball comedy set against the backdrop of Chicago during the Depression. At the center of a romantic triangle is Jeannette Desmereau (Colbert), a socialite left penniless by the stock market crash who takes a job as a writer for a men’s magazine. Her two on-again, off-again suitors just happen to be her hard-boiled editor Cyrus Anderson (MacMurray) and the company’s wealthy owner, Jack Bristow (Robert Young, Crossfire). Tempers flare, opposites attract and true love wins out at the end in this fast-paced delight directed by Wesley Ruggles (No Man of Her Own) and featuring memorable comic turns by supporting players Edgar Kennedy (Duck Soup), Donald Meek (You Can’t Take It with You) and William Collier Sr. (All of Me).

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A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.

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Theatrical Release: December 25th, 1935

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Distribution Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:23:16.992        
Video

1.37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 28,959,462,544 bytes

Feature: 26,751,436,800 bytes

Video Bitrate: 38.90 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1554 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1554 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
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Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps

Subtitles English, None
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1.37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 28,959,462,544 bytes

Feature: 26,751,436,800 bytes

Video Bitrate: 38.90 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin
Theatrical Trailer (2:21)


Blu-ray Release Date:
July 20th, 2021
Standard Blu-ray Case

Chapters 10

 

 

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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (July 2021): Kino have transferred Wesley Ruggles' The Bride Comes Home to Blu-ray. Like the, simultaneously released, The Gilded Lily it has some persistent light marks and scratches on most of the film (see samples below.) The overall image is a even rougher extending to affect the grain texture.  It is a dual-layered transfer with a max'ed out bitrate and does have rich black levels but the image scratch weaknesses are undoubtedly due to the source which, also, probably requires a film-level restoration - which it may not get anytime soon. Like The Gilded Lily it is very watchable, but shares an inconsistency that identifies how we are definitely spoiled with the many more impressive 1080P transfers of this era's cinema gems.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (16-bit) in the original English language. The Bride Comes Home has no aggressive moments and authentically has modest depth plus an uncredited score by John Leipold (Merrily We Go To Hell, Christmas in July, The Devil is a Woman, The Flying Deuces, Duck Soup,) Heinz Roemheld (Ruby Gentry, I, Jane Doe, Dangerous, The Monster that Challenged The World, The Land Unknown, The Mole People, 1933's The Invisible Man) and Tom Satterfield (Go'in To Town) sounding moderately scattered at times but dialogue is all audible and no egregious flaws. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers a new commentary by Lee Gambin (author of We Can Be Who We Are.) He discusses this Depression era comedy and reads from Charles Tranberg's biography on MacMurray, Eve Golden's Bride of Golden Images and Jim Harvey's Romantic Comedy In Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges while sharing details on his favorite of the Colbert/MacMurray comedy's The Egg and I (and the 'Ma and Pa Kettle' films that it spawned,) that he loves the honesty of The Bride Comes Home, Colbert's physical comedy in the film (as maid), Wesley Ruggles and much more. Lee is a pure film fan and his enthusiasm shines through exporting appreciation for the stars and this genre. There is also a trailer for The Bride Comes Home and other similar movies. 

Wesley Ruggles' The Bride Comes Home has screwball elements and it's pretty fun. While I enjoyed The Gilded Lily more, this is still a film I could watch at any time with its prevalent social commentary on class, humor and romance - helping me escape from the modern madness in which we are currently residing. Colbert helps carry The Bride Comes Home and MacMurray is a perfect foil for her - their chemistry is very evident. I'm appreciative that Kino have released this on Blu-ray, despite the imperfections, and the Gambin commentary carries excellent value. I suspect that completists for Colbert/MacMurray films and screwball/romantic comedy vintage-era devotees would be the prime audience.

Gary Tooze

 

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