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Walkabout / a Janus Films release ; 20th Century Fox ; screenplay by Edward Bond ; produced by Si Litvinoff ; directed and photographed by Nicolas Roeg ; Max L. Raab-Si Litvinoff Films (PTY) Ltd.
LIBRA DVD 010 300
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
- Criterion collection ; 10.
- The Criterion collection ; 10
- The Classic collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marshall, James Vance, 1924-2018.
- Aboriginal Australians--Drama.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Australia--Drama.
- Australia.
- Motion pictures, Australian.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Marshall, James Vance, 1924-2018--Film adaptations.
- Marshall, James Vance.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Australian.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [1998]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
- Participant:
- Jenny Agutter, Lucien John [i.e, Luc Roeg], David Gumpilil [i.e., Gulpilil], John Meillon.
- Credits:
- Film editors, Antony Gibbs, Alan Pattillo; music composed and conducted by John Barry.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel The Children / by James Vance Marshall, which was later published under title Walkabout.
- Special features: theatrical trailers; audio commentary by Nicolas Roeg and Jenny Agutter; an essay by Roger Ebert.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1971.
- ISBN:
- 0780020847
- OCLC:
- 39685356
- Publisher Number:
- 037429123225
- WAL120 Criterion Collection
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