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Gunga Din / RKO Radio Pictures ; produced and directed by George Stevens. Gunga Din : Supplement / produced by Sergio Leemann.
LIBRA laserdisc DVD Image 2496 LD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964, author.
- MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956, author.
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Subjects (All):
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--Film adaptations.
- Kipling, Rudyard.
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
- History.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Drama.
- India.
- Genre:
- Action and adventure films.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, black and white with color supplement ; 12 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Chatsworth, CA] : [Image Entertainment], [1995]
- Language Note:
- Principally in English, some lines in Hindustani [Cf. screenplay.]
- System Details:
- CLV (sides 1-2), CAV (Side 3), NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- Summary:
- Three Army veterans find adventure on India's North-West frontier.
- Participant:
- Cary Grant, Victor Mature, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, Sam Jaffe, supporting actors.
- Credits:
- Screen play by Joel Sayre & Fred Guiol; story by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur; edited by Henry Berman & John Lockert, photographed by Joseph H. August; music by Alfred Newman; Pandro S. Berman in charge of production. Side 3 edited by Pete Kneser.
- Notes:
- Based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling.
- "Special collector's edition" -- Container.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1939.
- "Turner Home Entertainment" -- Container.
- Recorded on 3 sides only.
- Monaural sound.
- Notes on and by Stevens on container.
- Disc 1 includes digital channel on which the full-length, restored version of the film is recorded, and analog channels on which are recorded (for simultaneous reproduction if desired): audio commentary by Rudy Behlmer detailing the history of the film's production (analog channel 1/L); and audio commentary by William Goldman on the film's lasting impact (analog channel 2/R). A remote control device is needed to provide access to the analog channels.
- Side 3 includes: color "home movies" shot on the Lone Pine (California) location by Stevens and soundman Bill Hamilton (with a voice-over of an interview with Stevens recorded in 1961), as well as movies shot by Stevens at his home at a "preview" of the film on the occasion of the 9th birthday party of George Stevens Jr. (narrated by Stevens Jr.); the re-release theatrical trailer; and a still-frame section (ca. 825 screens) with production stills, set sketches, plot plans, still pictures of the editors working, scene stills, pressbook, Pandro S. Berman memo, budget sheet, and full shooting screen play.
- OCLC:
- 187454982
- Publisher Number:
- ID2496TU Image Entertainment
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