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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1954 DVD Release: 04/10/2001 Format: DVD - Black and White - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 52 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 29 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy See Also: Sabrina [Paramount Centennial Collection]

Billy Wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy Sabrina, based on the play by Samuel A. Taylor. Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the simple, naïve daughter of a chauffeur, Thomas Fairchild (John Williams). They live on an estate with the wealthy Oliver Larrabee (Walter Hampden) and his two sons: workaholic older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) and fun-loving younger brother David (William Holden). Sabrina adores the charming David, but he thinks of her as just a kid. Her father sends her away to Paris for chef school, where she meets Baron St. Fontanel (Marcel Dalio), and she returns a worldly, sophisticated woman. David immediately falls for her, but he is already engaged to marry heiress Elizabeth Tyson (Martha Hyer). Sabrina wants to break up the wedding in order to finally catch the man of her dreams, while Linus fights to keep the marriage on in the interest of family business and Mr. Tyson's (Francis X. Bushman) fortune. In order to keep Sabrina away from David, Linus pretends to court her himself. In doing so, they eventually realize their true feelings for each another. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Humphrey Bogart - Linus Larrabee
Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina Fairchild
William Holden - David Larrabee
Walter Hampden - Oliver Larrabee
John Williams - Thomas Fairchild

Paramount doesn't exactly go out of its way with its bare-bones DVD release of this classic Billy Wilder romantic comedy, but fans of classic Hollywood movies will still be glad to have it in their collection. The original film was shot in the pre-widescreen 1.33:1 ratio that matches standard TV sets. The pristine print matches the Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track that comes in the original mono. While there is no faulting Paramount on the technical aspects of this DVD, the featurette on the making of Sabrina is negligible at best. The narrator literally has a smile in his voice as he reads text that seems purposefully designed to tell viewers very little about the actual making of the movie. Thankfully, DVD extras are usually watched only once, but movies as good as Sabrina are viewed over and over again. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide