ONE HOUR WITH YOU (1932)
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Randwick Ritz, Sydney:
4:00 PM
Sunday 10 May
11:00 AM
Wednesday 13 May
Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
4:00 PM
Sunday 10 May
11:00 AM
Wednesday 13 May
Rating: PG
Duration: 80 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
SYDNEY TICKETS ⟶
MELBOURNE TICKETS ⟶
4:00 PM
Sunday 10 May
11:00 AM
Wednesday 13 May
Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
4:00 PM
Sunday 10 May
11:00 AM
Wednesday 13 May
Rating: PG
Duration: 80 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
SYDNEY TICKETS ⟶
MELBOURNE TICKETS ⟶
4K RESTORATION – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
‘This charming, richly detailed film is a jewel in the director’s crown, and one of the finest musical comedies of the early sound era.’ – Wheeler Winston Dixon, Senses of Cinema
Even though this pre-code reimagining of his 1924 silent film The Marriage Circle was originally handed to a young George Cukor to direct, Ernst Lubitsch stepped back in midway through production to take the reins, lending his inimitable style to this comic tale of a loving couple simultaneously encountering opportunities for infidelity with each other’s unscrupulous friends. Brightened by a dash of Viennese operetta, some Parisian boulevard humour and recurring fourth-wall breaks from male lead Maurice Chevalier, Lubitsch’s musical also benefits from the gorgeous voice of fellow star Jeanette MacDonald and eight songs mostly composed by Oscar Straus and Leo Robin. Nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, One Hour With You is a fine example of the slyly subversive sex comedies that Lubitsch and his contemporaries perfected in early 1930s Hollywood – the likes of which would shortly be wiped out by the arrival of the censorious Motion Picture Production Code.
Introduced by CJ Johnson at Ritz Cinemas and Peter Hourigan at Lido Cinemas.
‘This charming, richly detailed film is a jewel in the director’s crown, and one of the finest musical comedies of the early sound era.’ – Wheeler Winston Dixon, Senses of Cinema
Even though this pre-code reimagining of his 1924 silent film The Marriage Circle was originally handed to a young George Cukor to direct, Ernst Lubitsch stepped back in midway through production to take the reins, lending his inimitable style to this comic tale of a loving couple simultaneously encountering opportunities for infidelity with each other’s unscrupulous friends. Brightened by a dash of Viennese operetta, some Parisian boulevard humour and recurring fourth-wall breaks from male lead Maurice Chevalier, Lubitsch’s musical also benefits from the gorgeous voice of fellow star Jeanette MacDonald and eight songs mostly composed by Oscar Straus and Leo Robin. Nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, One Hour With You is a fine example of the slyly subversive sex comedies that Lubitsch and his contemporaries perfected in early 1930s Hollywood – the likes of which would shortly be wiped out by the arrival of the censorious Motion Picture Production Code.
Introduced by CJ Johnson at Ritz Cinemas and Peter Hourigan at Lido Cinemas.
THE RESTORATION
Source: NBCUniversal
Restored in 4K by Universal Pictures at NBCUniversal StudioPost laboratory, from the 35mm dupe negative and a 35mm composite fine grain.
Restored in 4K by Universal Pictures at NBCUniversal StudioPost laboratory, from the 35mm dupe negative and a 35mm composite fine grain.