The Heiress: The Criterion Collection

Summary

Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, The Heiress is given the Criteron treatment with a restored 4K digital transfer and uncompressed monaural soundtrack by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on 17th June 2019.

Cast

Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins

Director

William Wyler

Producer

William Wyle

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

1 hour 55 minutes

Release date

17/06/2019

Hash Tag

#TheHeiress

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Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives), 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 heart-breaking, 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 smouldering 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 (Roman Holiday), 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.

The Heiress is given the Criterion treatment with a restored 4K digital transfer and uncompressed monaural soundtrack by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on 17th June 2019.

Special Features

New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New conversation between screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme
New programme 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, de Havilland, and actors Bette Davis and Walter Pidgeon
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
An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

Ralph Richardson

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Montgomery Clift

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