Lubitsch Musicals   Eclipse Series 8 02/18/26

 These pre-Code comedies of manners were America’s talking-picture introduction to ‘the Lubitsch touch.’ They’re spirited bedroom farces, even though the innuendo and pliable sexuality all happens standing up with both feet on the floor. French song & dance man Maurice Chevalier became the international ambassador for French oo-la-la suggestiveness. Co-starring are Jeanette MacDonald, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert; for one feature Chevalier’s place is taken by English star Jack Buchanan. On Blu-ray from Eclipse / Criterion.

02/14/26