Death Takes A Holiday (1934) On DVD

Actor:           Fredric March; Evelyn Venable; Guy Standing; Kent Taylor; Henry Travers                                                                                                                      
Director:      Mitchell Leisen
Genre:          Drama
Year:             1934
Studio:          Universal
Length:         80
Released:    10/01/2014
Rating:          Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:         DVD
Misc:              NTSC, Black & White
Language:    English
Subtitles  :    N/A

DESCRIPTION:

In the pre-code classic Death Takes a Holiday, the Grim Reaper (Fredric March) pays a visit to a family of wealthy socialites though he is not there on his usual business. Intent on entering the human world for a three-day holiday, Death takes the form of a visiting prince, and assumes all the pleasures and pains that go with flesh and blood existence. Experiencing, for the first time, all that humanity has to offer, he becomes enamored of Grazia (Evelyn Venable), a woman both in love with life and infatuated with death. But soon, in Deaths absence, life is running dangerously and unexplainably rampant, and knowing that he must return to his eternally grim world, he conceives a plan, involving Grazia, to allow him to take back some of what he has learned and yearned for. Co-starring Henry Travers (Clarence, the angel of Its a Wonderful Life), this thrilling and evocative portrayal of deaths lesson and lifes blessing is one of the golden age of Hollywoods most memorable films.