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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

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Date: 18 May 2015 10:51:00
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Scans (3 JPGs) | 01:38:39 | 4,29 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - each AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan

In Budapest, Hungary, the Matuschek and Company store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek and the bachelor Alfred Kralik is his best and most experienced salesman. When Klara Novak seeks a job position of saleswoman in the store, Matuschek hires her but Kralik and she do not tolerate each other. Meanwhile the lonely and dedicated Kralik has an unknown pen pal that he intends to propose very soon; however, he is fired without explanation by Matuschek in the night that he is going to meet his secret love. He goes to the bar where they have scheduled their meeting with his colleague Pirovitch and he surprisingly finds that Klara is his correspondent; however, ashamed with the unemployment, he does not disclose his identity to her. When Matuschek discovers that he had misjudged Kralik and committed a mistake, he hires him again for the position of manager. But Klara is still fascinated with her future fiancé and does not pay much attention to Kralik.

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Re-released just in time for Christmas, director Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around The Corner is perfect seasonal fare. Its central plot element - a bickering pair of co-workers who don't realise that they are each other's beloved pen pal - has spawned numerous remakes and homages which may be better known to most filmgoers today, most notably the Tom Hanks comedy You've Got Mail.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

Viewers coming to this film for the first time might find the setting odd – the aforementioned shop is on a small street in pre-War Budapest - given the starring role of American actor James Stewart. But this wintry, old European backdrop adds a quaint air of romance to the picture, almost as though the audience is being invited to view a last hurrah of innocence before the storm clouds of war.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

Set in in the run-up to Christmas, the film focuses on the conflict (and unknown romance-by-mail) between long-time assistant manager Alfred Kralik (Stewart) and confident new starter Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan). They are both employees at the emporium owned by the gruff but paternal Mr Matuschek (Frank Morgan) and staffed by a mixed bag of eccentrics who wouldn't look out of place in a modern US TV sitcom. Right from the start, the two are fighting like cats. But as their conflict deepens, their letter romance seems to blossom almost in inverse proportion.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

Along with this comedy of errors, further dramas in the shop also unfold as Alfred must deal with being fired and fearing he isn't sophisticated enough for his lover-by-mail, the store faces poor Christmas sales and various employees rankle against slights real and imagined. Of course, all is eventually happily resolved with just desserts given out to those deserving of them, just in time for a white Christmas eve.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

Apart from being built around a smart and funny concept, The Shop Around The Corner is also a great showcase for the famous Lubitsch touch - mixing smart and sometimes cutting observations about people in their personal and professional lives with sweetly sentimental comedy and romance. It is all held together by an effortless comedic performance from James Stewart, an actor as capable of mastering a Lubitsch comedy here as he was the later Hitchcock psychodramas.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner is a rich, moving love story, a very warm film despite its snowy Christmastime setting. Although the film is focused on the antagonism of the store manager Kralik (James Stewart) and new employee Klara (Margaret Sullivan) — and of course, their eventual and inevitable realization of love for one another — in many ways it's more about everything that happens around this slowly developing romance. The film is set in a small shop in Budapest, and the texture of this shop, the daily business of the workers who gather outside every day for friendly chit-chat, is the real matter of the film.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

The characters are well-defined but not quirky, with just hints of low-key exaggeration lending some humorous edge to the anxious, sputtering Pirovitch (Felix Bressart) and the smart-alecky errand boy Pepi (William Tracy), who really comes into his own with a chest-swelled swagger when he gets promoted to salesman. The film's humor is gentle and quiet, with not a hint of mean-spirited mockery except, perhaps, in its portrayal of Kralik's foppish rival Vadas (Joseph Schildkraut). The film continually belies the idea that humor must be edgy or aggressive in order to be genuinely funny, as Lubitsch earns smiles, chuckles and occasionally even full-throated guffaws from his careful development of these characters and their minor foibles.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

What's especially striking about the film's humor is the vein of real, deep sadness that runs through the center of it. There's a sense of loneliness in both Kralik and Karla, who separately believe they've found love in the form of someone they've never even met face-to-face, someone they've only corresponded with through letters. There's more than a hint of desperation in both characters: they invest so much into their romance-by-pen, as though it represents the last chance they each have for happiness or romance. In the process, they don't realize that the object of their love is right in front of them every day, that their relationship consists of sparring angrily by day and writing loving, romantic letters to one another by night.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

As such, the film is about the ideal of love as contrasted against the more prosaic but also more tangible reality: it's telling that before Kralik can reveal himself to Karla, he must adjust her expectations downward by shattering the fantasy of the letters, preparing her not only for the revelation that he's her great love, but that her great love is only a flesh-and-blood man after all. Lubitsch also has a wonderful feel for the anxieties of money, for the pressures of the working class life and the fear of losing a job, and the film makes great use of the Christmas setting for its subtle commentary on consumerism and salesmanship. It's a beautiful, funny, emotionally complex masterpiece with so much heart, so much beauty, in every image and every line that, despite its modest, unassuming surface, it winds up being an almost overwhelming experience.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- MGM Short Subject: 'A New Romance of Celluloid: A Miracle of Sound' (10:55)
- A Great Story is Worth Retelling
- Theatrical trailer
- Cast & Crew

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