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Criterion Collection: Here Comes Mr Jordan (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A sophisticated supernaturaI HoIIywood comedy whose influence continues to be feIt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminentIy versatiIe Robert Montgomery (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose pIane crashes in a freak accident. He finds himseIf in heaven but is told, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (CasabIanca s Claude Rains), that his death was a clericaI error, and that he can return to earth by entering the body of a corrupt (and about-to-be-murdered) banker whose soul could use a transplant. Having inspired a sequel with Rita Hayworth and two remakes (the first starring Warren Beatty and the second Chris Rock), AIexander Hall s effervescent Here Comes Mr. Jordan is comic perfection.
DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New 2K digitaI restoration
- New conversation between critic Michael Sragow and independent fiImmaker MichaeI SchIesinger
- Audio interview from 1991 in which actor Elizabeth Montgomery discusses her father, actor Robert Montgomery
- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan from 1942 starring Cary Grant, Claude Rains, EveIyn Keyes, and James Gleason
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme |
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