This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good. Into this Eden come a sophisticated European brother and sister who turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins.
In Boston in the aftermath of the Civil War, gifted young orator Verena Tarrant has attracted the attention of Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), who wishes to nurture Verena for the Women’s Movement. But Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), a handsome male chauvinist, wants Verena as his wife.
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating Akira Kurosawa’s astonishing career.