DVD & Blu-ray: THE HEIRESS (1949) Starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift

Product Description: 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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Director: William Wyler

Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson

Genre: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 115 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: May 7, 2019

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Blu-ray - The Criterion Collection

DVD - The Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
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DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH

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New conversation between screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith NehmeNew 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, 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
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson