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The spy who came in from the cold / a Paramount Picture ; a Salem production ; screenplay by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper ; produced and directed by Martin Ritt.
LIBRA DVD 011 818 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 452.
- Criterion collection ; 452
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Le Carré, John, 1931-2020--Film adaptations.
- Le Carré, John.
- Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.
- Intelligence service--Great Britain--Drama.
- Intelligence service.
- Cold War--Secret service--Drama.
- Cold War.
- Secret service.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Spy films.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Special edition Enhanced for widescreen TVs.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the hearing impaired (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby digital 2.0
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. The film
- disc 2. The supplements.
- Participant:
- Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Oswald Morris; editor, Anthony Harvey; music, Sol Kaplan.
- Notes:
- Based on The spy who came in from the cold / by John Le Carré.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1965.
- Special features: interview with John Le Carre; selected-scene commentary with Oswald Morris; "The secret centre: John Le Carré" (2000), a BBC documentary; 1967 interview with Richard Burton from the BBC series "Acting in the 60s" with film critic Kenneth Tynan; audio conversation from 1985 between Martin Ritt and film historian Patrick McGilligan; gallery of set designs; theatrical trailer; essay by critic Michael Sragow.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781604650891
- 1604650893
- OCLC:
- 261600042
- Publisher Number:
- 715515033121
- CC1775D Criterion Collection
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