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Pinky / Twentieth Century Fox ; screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols ; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck ; directed by Elia Kazan.
LIBRA VHS PS3537.U8 Q83 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 1890-1970, author.
- Series:
- Studio classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 1890-1970--Film adaptations.
- Sumner, Cid Ricketts.
- Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 1890-1970.
- African Americans--Race identity--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Passing (Identity)--United States--Drama.
- Passing (Identity).
- Racism--Mississippi--Drama.
- Racism.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Mississippi--Race relations--Drama.
- Mississippi.
- United States--Race relations--Drama.
- United States.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Drama.
- Films for hard of hearing people.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., [2001]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- Pinky, a black woman who works as a nurse, is able to "pass for white." Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiance ́and returns home to Mississippi to help her ailing grandmother by caring for her employer, an imperious plantation owner. When the employer names Pinky heiress to her estate, the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial.
- Participant:
- Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Joe MacDonald ; editor, Harmon Jons ; music, Alfred Newman.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.
- Originally the subject of a landmark Supreme Court case in film censorship.
- Includes original trailer.
- ISBN:
- 0793985447
- 9780793985449
- OCLC:
- 30981342
- Publisher Number:
- 086162854439
- 8544 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
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