The Criterion Collection
Swing Time
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Directed by: George Stevens
Featuring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Georges Metaxa, Betty Furness
Year: 1936
Time: 103 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 979
Release Date: June 11 2019
MSRP:
$39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc | BD-50
1.37:1 ratio
English 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
Audio commentary from 1986 featuring John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films
Archival interviews with performers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and choreographer Hermes Pan
New interview with George Stevens Jr.
In Full Swing, a new program on the film’s choreography and soundtrack featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, dance critic Brian Seibert, and Dorothy Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer
New interview with film scholar Mia Mask on the “Bojangles of Harlem” number
An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith