YOU AND ME - LE

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(Fritz Lang, 1938)
Release date: 23 September 2024
Limited Edition Blu-ray (UK premiere)

Sylvia Sidney (An American Tragedy), George Raft (Spawn of the North), and Harry Carey (The Long Gray Line) head up the cast of this powerful film from the great Fritz Lang (Ministry of Fear).

When ex-convict Joe (Raft) gets a job in a department store, he falls in love with his co-worker Helen (Sidney) and, even though the rules of their employment strictly forbid it, the two secretly are married. However, when he discovers that Helen has been hiding the fact that she is also an ex-con, Joe becomes enraged and decides to rob the store, putting their relationship in jeopardy.

With a screenplay by Virginia Van Upp (Affair in Trinidad) and Norman Krasna (Fury), as well as music by the legendary Kurt Weill (The Threepenny Opera), You and Me is a unique mix of crime thriller and romantic comedy which confounded audience expectations at the time of its release, but which has become a critical favourite in the decades since.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

2K restoration
Original mono audio
Audio commentary with writer and film programmer Tony Rayns (2024)
Crafting a Career (2024, 23 mins): academic Lucy Bolton discusses the life and lengthy film career of the acclaimed stage and screen actor Sylvia Sidney
The Department Store Opera (2024, 27 mins): author and musicologist David Huckvale discusses Kurt Weill and the film’s unique musical score
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Farran Smith Nehme, an archival interview with Fritz Lang conducted by Peter Bogdanovich, an archival interview with screenwriter Norman Krasna, a contemporary profile of Lang, and film credits
UK premiere on Blu-ray
Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK

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BBFC cert: PG
REGION B
EAN: 5060697922622