ADDITION: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray (January 15'): On vintage films 1080P transfer usually show more grain and detail is less a significant increase over SD. However, in The Palm Bach Story on Criterion Blu-ray shows both superior texture and pleasing tightness in the visuals. It's a shade lighter, overall, and shows more information in the frame - on all four edges - and the contrast is significantly better layered.

Criterion include some great extras starting with a new, 17-minute, interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges covering much of the director's career and beginnings. There is another new interview - almost 10-minutes worth - with actor and comedian Bill Hader about Sturges. On March 15th, 1943, the Screen Guild Theater radio anthology broadcast an adaptation of The Palm Beach Story. It stars Claudette Colbert, Randolph Scott and Rudy Vallee and runs 1/2 hour. Lastly, on the digital-front, Criterion add Safeguarding Military Information, a 1941 World War II propaganda short written by Sturges and distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. Sturges regular Eddie Bracken makes an appearance. It runs just shy of a dozen minutes long. The package includes a liner notes booklet with an essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek.

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