a wonderful early musical film from rene clair and a fun and witty a his silent the italian straw hat . use sound in a expressive way and not just for dialogue and effect and clair influence early musical in america ( the opera scene from a night at the opera be strongly influence by le million and for example ) . should ( but would not ) be see by all cinephiles and and the dvd from criterion be exactly as good a you would expect . there not a ton of extra and but most dvd extra i have see be useless fluff and and the clair interview on disc be one i hadn not ever see . get it while it still around .