Wiz cover

The dazzling soul spectacular from legendary director Sidney Lumet that reframes a beloved tale through the Black American experience—featuring music by Quincy Jones and an all-star cast that includes Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, and Lena Horne

Diana Ross and Michael Jackson

The Wiz

Diana Ross

Product Description

Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American chorus girl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness—but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script—a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation—and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • New audio commentary featuring author and film critic Michael Koresky
  • New program featuring audio excerpts of a 1969 interview with director Mitchell Leisen
  • Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1940
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic David Cairns

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