The Palm Beach Story (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE) takes off like a rocket and never let's up. Joel McCrea (SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS) and Claudette Colbert (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT) play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner. A mix of the witty and the utterly absurd, The Palm Beach Story is a high watermark of Sturges's brand of physical comedy and verbal repartee, featuring sparkling performances from it's leads as well as hilarious supporting turns from Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor as a brother and a sister ensnared in Tom and Gerry's high jinks.

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Arthur Stuart Hull, Torben Meyer, Jimmy Conlin, Victor Potel, Jack Norton, Robert Greig, Rosco Ates, Dewey Robinson, Chester Conklin, Sheldon Jett, Robert Dudley, Franklin Pangborn, Arthur Hoyt, Al Bridge, Snowflake, Charles R. Moore, Frank Moran, Harry Rosenthal, Esther Howard, Howard Mitchell, George Anderson, Harry Hayden, Monte Blue, Esther Michelson, Edward McNamara, Harry Tyler, Mantan Moreland, Keith Richards, Odette Myrtil, Julius Tannen, Byron Foulger, Lillian Randolph, Frank Faylen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Laurie Douglas, John Holland, George Melford, Max Wagner, Wilson Benge, Marcelle Corday, Alfred Hall

Director: Paul Jones