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The long, hot summer / Jerry Wald Productions ; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ; screenplay, Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; producer, Jerry Wald ; director, Martin Ritt.
LIBRA DVD PS3511.A86 L662 2003
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD 012 093
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Film adaptations.
- Faulkner, William.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English, Spanish, and French with English and Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby Digital
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
- Participant:
- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Joseph La Shelle ; editor, Louise R. loeffler ; music, Alex North.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by William Faulkner.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
- Special features include: AMC Backstory "Long, Hot Summer"; Movie Tone News: The Long Hot Summer in world premiere, a Louisiana triumph; theatrical trailer.
- OCLC:
- 52362498
- Publisher Number:
- 024543075530
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