Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'

2019
5.5| 0h23m| en
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In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of 'The Heiress' (1949) of the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, which was itself inspired by the 1880 Henry James novel 'Washington Square'.

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Jay Cocks

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The Criterion Collection

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