ARISE, MY LOVE - DVD-KL STUDIO CLASSICS

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy; Drama; Romance
• Plot: From Mitchell Leisen, the acclaimed director of Midnight, Death Takes a Holiday and Easy Living, comes this romantic comedy starring Hollywood greats Claudette Colbert (The Gilded Lily, The Bride Comes Home) and Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend, Alias Nick Beal) with a script co-written by the legendary team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (Five Graves to Cairo, The Emperor Waltz). Ace reporter Augusta “Gusto” Nash (Colbert) poses as the wife of imprisoned American pilot Tom Martin (Milland) to save him from execution by Spanish fascists. The gesture lands her a front-page story and the praise of her boss, Mr. Phillips (Walter Abel, Mr. Skeffington). Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II. Gorgeously shot by Charles Lang (Angel) and co-starring Dick Purcell (The Bank Dick), Dennis O’Keefe (Brewster’s Millions), Esther Dale (The Awful Truth) and George Zucco (The Cat and the Canary), this wonderful blend of action, comedy and melodrama won an Academy Award for Best Original Story.
• Cast: Claudette Colbert; Ray Milland; Dennis O'Keefe; Walter Abel; Dick Purcell; George Zucco; Frank Puglia; Esther Dale; Paul Leyssac; Ann Codee; Stanley Logan; Lionel Pape; Aubrey Mather; Cliff Nazarro; Rudolph Anders; Charles Bastin; Eugene Borden; Frank Bruno; Paul Bryar; George Bunny; James Carlisle; Irene Coleman; Louise Colombet; Alan Davis; George Davis; Jean De Briac; Marcel De la Brosse; Charles De Ravenne; Jean Del Val; Juan Duval; Jon Easton; Sarah Edwards; Fern Emmett; Paul Everton; Fred Farrell; Adolph Faylauer; Gerald Fielding; Bess Flowers; Hans Fuerberg; Gregory Golubeff; Douglas Grant; Sherry Hall; Sam Harris; Leyland Hodgson; Olaf Hytten; Ellis Irving; Jack W. Johnston; Armand Kaliz; Douglas Kennedy; Kurt Kreuger; Jack Luden; Frank Malatesta; Fred Malatesta; Michael Mark; Alphonse Martell; Maurice Maurice; Louis Mercier; Tony Merlo; Harold Miller; Anthony Nace; Mrs. Wilfrid North; Nestor Paiva; Nadia Petrova; Tempe Pigott; Guy Repp; François Richier; Reginald Sheffield; Bert Stevens; Rafael Storm; Amzie Strickland; David Thursby; Jesús Topete; Sigfrid Tor; Jacques Vanaire; Blanca Vischer; Poppy Wilde; Mitchell Leisen; Charles Brackett; Billy Wilder; Jacques Théry; Benjamin Glazer; Hans Székely
• Director: Mitchell Leisen
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc., EMKA, Ltd., Universal Studios, Kino Lorber, Inc., KL STUDIO CLASSICS (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
• Media Format: Movie