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Do the right thing / Universal ; a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee.

LIBRA DVD 009 379 disc 1-2 + pamphlet
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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Lee, Spike, director, screenwriter, producer, actor.
Aiello, Danny, 1933-2019, actor.
Davis, Ossie, actor.
Dee, Ruby, actor.
Lee, William F., composer.
Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks, producer.
Universal Pictures (Firm), producer.
Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.
Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 97.
Criterion collection ; 97
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Race relations--Drama.
Race relations.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.).
Genre:
Drama.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet ([8] pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
Language Note:
Open-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
System Details:
DVD - NTSC ; Dolby digital surround ; stereo.
digital
optical
stereo
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
Summary:
Combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever, with the death of a young black man and the ensuing sequence of tensions and events.
Participant:
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro.
Credits:
Photography, Ernest Dickerson ; original music score, Bill Lee ; editor, Barry Alexander Brown.
Notes:
Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
DVD release of the 1989 motion picture.
"A Spike Lee joint".
Special features: commentary by Spike Lee ; documentary The Making of Do the Right Thing ; Fight the Power video (Public Enemy) ; interviews ; storyboards ; theatrical trailer and TV spots.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
ISBN:
155940910X
OCLC:
46335414
Publisher Number:
715515011228
CC1561D Criterion Collection

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