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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: William Wyler
Featuring: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, Betty Linley, Ray Collins, Mona Freeman, Selena Royle, Paul Lees
Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of romance. Are his smoldering professions of love sincere, as she believes they are? Or is Catherine’s calculating father (Ralph Richardson) correct in judging Morris a venal fortune seeker? A graceful drawing-room drama boasting Academy Award–winning costume design by Edith Head, The Heiress is also a piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, in a triumph of classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Documentary, Television Program, Archival Footage, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- New conversation between screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme
- New program about the film’s costumes featuring costume collector and historian Larry McQueen
- The Costume Designer, a restored 1950 short film featuring costume designer Edith Head
- Appearance by actor Olivia de Havilland on a 1979 episode of The Paul Ryan Show
- Excerpts from a 1973 tribute to director William Wyler on The Merv Griffin Show, featuring Wyler, Olivia de Havilland, and actors Bette Davisand Walter Pidgeon
- William Wyler’s acceptance speech from the American Film Institute’s 1976 Salute to William Wyler
- Interview with actor Ralph Richardson filmed in 1981 for the documentary Directed by William Wyler
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson
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