Heaven can wait
By: [screenplay Samson Raphaelson ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch]
Contributors: Ameche, Don, actor; Tierney, Gene, actor; Coburn, Charles, actor; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Criterion collection.
Series: Criterion collection; Criterion collection
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781681434957
Subjects: Drama; Man-woman relationships; Adultery; Devil; Hell; Heaven
Other titles: Heaven can wait (Motion picture : 1943)
Description: Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Special features: Conversation frm 2005 between critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris; Creativity with Bill Moyers; Audio seminar with Raphaelson and Richard Corliss; home recordings of Ernst Lubitsch playing the piano; trailer; essay by William Paul.

Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar, Marjorie Main, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn.

Blu-ray; full screen (1.37:1); monaural; 1080p high definition ;requires Blu-ray player.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).