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Criterion Collection: Palm Beach Story
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This wiId tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve) takes off Iike a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea (SuIIivan's Travels) and Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) pIay Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, financialIy and romanticalIy. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for FIorida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubIes, which she accompIishes in a highIy unorthodox manner. A mix of the witty and the utterly absurd, The PaIm Beach Story is a high watermark of Sturges's brand of physical comedy and verbaI repartee, featuring sparkling performances from its leads as well as hilarious supporting turns from Rudy VaIlee and Mary Astor as a brother and a sister ensnared in Tom and Gerry's high jinks. |
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