Unfaithfully Yours

In this pitch-black comedy from legendary writer-director Preston Sturges, Rex Harrison stars as Sir Alfred De Carter, a world-famous symphony conductor consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair. During a concert, the jealous De Carter entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three separate orchestral works. But when he attempts to put his murderous fantasies into action, nothing works out quite as planned. A brilliantly performed mixture of razor-sharp dialogue and uproarious slapstick, Unfaithfully Yours is a true classic from a grand master of screen comedy.

United States
1948
105 minutes
Black & White
1.33:1
English
Spine #292

Special Features

High-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by Sturges scholars James Harvey, Diane Jacobs, and Brian Henderson
Introduction by writer-director Terry Jones
Interview with Sturges’s widow Sandy Sturges
Rare production correspondence and stills
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Plus: a new essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem

New cover by Michael Boland

DVD 1 Disc $20.96 SRP: $29.95

Special Features

High-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by Sturges scholars James Harvey, Diane Jacobs, and Brian Henderson
Introduction by writer-director Terry Jones
Interview with Sturges’s widow Sandy Sturges
Rare production correspondence and stills
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Plus: a new essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem

New cover by Michael Boland

Cast & Credits

Cast

Rex Harrison: Sir Alfred De Carter
Linda Darnell: Daphne De Carter
Rudy Vallee: August Henshler
Barbara Lawrence: Barbara Henshler
Kurt Kreuger: Anthony Windborn
Lionel Stander: Hugo Standoff
Edgar Kennedy: Detective Sweeney
Alan Bridge: House Detective

Credits

Director: Preston Sturges
Written, produced, and directed by: Preston Sturges
Cinematography: Victor Milner
Editing: Robert Fritch
Art direction: Lyle Wheeler
Art direction: Joseph C. Wright
Musical direction: Alfred Newman
Sound: Roger Heman
Sound: Arthur L. Kirbach
Costume design: Bonnie Cashin

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Victor Milner

Cinematographer

Though he may not be so well known today, cinematographer Victor Milner was a force during Hollywood’s golden age. Equally adept at the intimate and the epic, he lent visual character to both drawing-room comedies and picturesque outdoor westerns, and the list of directors he collaborated with reads like a who’s who of cinematic legends: Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Fleming, Ernst Lubitsch, Anthony Mann, Preston Sturges, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman, William Wyler. He was also one of the founding members of the prestigious, still active organization the American Society of Cinematographers, and served as its president from 1937 to 1939. Milner started his career in movies as a projectionist and a newsreel cameraman, and ended it as a nine-time Oscar nominee—and onetime winner, for DeMille’s 1934 megaproduction Cleopatra. His final nod from the Academy came for his stunning, psychologically acute vistas in Anthony Mann’s western The Furies.