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Night and the city / [presented by] Twentieth Century-Fox ; produced by Samuel G. Engel ; screenplay by Jo Eisinger ; directed by Jules Dassin.
LIBRA DVD PR6021.E743 N42 2005 disc + insert
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD 011 582
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 274.
- The Criterion collection ; 274
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kersh, Gerald, 1911-1968--Film adaptations.
- Kersh, Gerald.
- Kersh, Gerald, 1911-1968.
- Greco-Roman wrestling--Drama.
- Greco-Roman wrestling.
- Wrestling promoters--England--Drama.
- Wrestling promoters.
- Ambition--Drama.
- Ambition.
- England.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf ; 18 cm)
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Jules Dassin's Night and the city
- Place of Publication:
- Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection ; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [2005]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
- Participant:
- Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Max Greene ; art director, C.P. Norman ; editor, Nick DeMaggio, Sidney Stone ; music, Franz Waxman ; costume designers, Oleg Cassini, Margaret Furse.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
- Based on the novel by Gerald Kersh.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by film scholar Glenn Erickson; video interview with director Jules Dassin; excerpts from a 1972 French interview with Dassin; 'Two versions, two scores', a look at the two different scores composed for the British and American releases of the film; new essay by film critic Paul Arthur; original theatrical trailer.
- ISBN:
- 155940955X
- OCLC:
- 57206231
- Publisher Number:
- 715515015721
- CC1607D Criterion Collection
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