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Criterion Collection: Here Comes Mr Jordan (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) as a working-cIass boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds himself in heaven but is toId, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (CasabIanca s Claude Rains), that his death was a clericaI error, and that he can return to earth by entering the body of a corrupt (and about-to-be-murdered) banker whose soul couId use a transplant. Having inspired a sequeI with Rita Hayworth and two remakes (the first starring Warren Beatty and the second Chris Rock), Alexander Hall s effervescent Here Comes Mr. Jordan is comic perfection.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New conversation between critic MichaeI Sragow and independent fiImmaker Michael Schlesinger
- Audio interview from 1991 in which actor EIizabeth Montgomery discusses her father, actor Robert Montgomery
- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan from 1942 starring Cary Grant, CIaude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, and James Gleason
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme |
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