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Native son / screenplay by Pierre Chenal and Richard Wright ; produced by James Prades and Michael Terr ; directed by Pierre Chenal.
LIBRA VHS PS3545.R815 N252 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Film adaptations.
- Wright, Richard.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : International Film Forum, [1988]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Bigger Thomas, a young black man, victim of a white society, finds himself hopelessly caught in a web of political and economic oppression. His personal frustration leads him to acts of violence and passion...all with a tragic ending...touching on the inequality of the human condition.
- Participant:
- Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Gloria Madison, Nicholas Joy, Willa Pearl Curtiss, Charles Cane.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, A.U. Merays ; editors, G. Garate, Gary Lindsay ; music, Mischa Terr, John Elhert.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Richard Wright.
- VHS release of the 1951 production.
- OCLC:
- 20279429
- Publisher Number:
- 031396250236
- XE FF 2502 International Film Forum
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