Eureka! Entertainment have announced the release of A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, the classic Oscar nominated Hollywood comedy drama, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (the director of All About Eve) who won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his work on the film. Starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern as the ‘three wives’ who each receive a letter from their absent friend informing them that she has run off with one of their husbands, and featuring an early turn from Kirk Douglas. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES will be released on Blu-ray in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition as part of Eureka’s award-winning The Masters of Cinema Series on 29th June 2015.
A stunning romantic drama from writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa), A Letter to Three Wives explores the domestic travails of three couples and the woman that brings them to the brink of crisis.
The letter of the title is written with a poisonous pen: the three women (portrayed by Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, and Ann Sothern) receive a note stating that one of their husbands has run off with a woman named Addie Ross – which husband in particular, however, remains unmentioned, though each husband had their own affinity for Ross. And so amid the women’s mounting anxiety commences a series of flashbacks, each telling the story of how the three individual marriages had come in their own way to be so strained at the present…
A spectacular success at the time of its release, A Letter to Three Wives was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, and earned Mankiewicz the Academy Awards for both Best Director and Best Screenplay. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present A Letter to Three Wives in a special Dual Format edition that includes the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
SPECIAL DUAL FORMAT (BLU-RAY + DVD) EDITION featuring:
- Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Feature-length audio commentary with Mankiewicz biographer Kenneth Geist, film historian Cheryl Lower, and actor Christopher Mankiewicz, the director’s son
- Fox Movietone newsreel covering the Academy Awards ceremony
- 36-page booklet containing essays, interview material, and rare archival imagery
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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