Cluny Brown (Criterion Collection)

Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker. A young woman who happens to have skills as a plumber gets sent by her uncle to an English country estate to work as a parlormaid near the start of WWII. There she befriends both an exiled Czech refugee hiding from the Nazis as well as a rather dull shopkeeper. Both men take a fancy to young Cluny. Special features include a new 4K digital restoration, conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Farran Smith Nehme, a video essay by film scholar Kristin Thompson, a 2004 interview with film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz, a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1947 which features Olivia de Havilland and Charles Boyer, an essay by novelist Siri Hustvedt and more. This classic farce is based on the novel by Margery Sharp and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. 1946/b&w/100 min/G/fullscreen.