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Act of violence / Turner Entertainment Co. ; MGM presents a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; produced by William H. Wright ; directed by Fred Zinneman ; screenplay by Robert L. Richards. Mystery street / Turner Entertainment Co. ; MGM presents a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; produced by Frank E. Taylor ; directed by John Sturges ; screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Richard Brooks ; story by Leonard Spigelgass.
LIBRA DVD 006 155
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD PN1995.9.F54 A38 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Film noir classic collection
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Air pilots--Drama.
- Air pilots.
- Bombardiers--Drama.
- Bombardiers.
- Carjacking--Massachusetts--Boston--Drama.
- Carjacking.
- Forensic pathology--Massachusetts--Cape Cod--Drama.
- Forensic pathology.
- Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Film noir.
- Crime films.
- Feature films.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Standard version.
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007,]
- Language Note:
- English soundtrack with optional French subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1; full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Act of violence: Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
- Mystery street: Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is found on a lonely Cape Cod beach. Using the macabre expertise of Harvard forensic specialist Dr. McAdoo, Lt. Pete Morales must work back from bones to find the victim's identity and killer.
- Participant:
- Act of violence: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter.
- Mystery street: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson.
- Credits:
- Act of violence: director of photography, Robert Surtees; editor, Conrad A. Nervig; music, music, Bronislaw Kaper.
- Mystery street: director of photography, John Alton; editor, Ferris Webster; music, Rudolph G. Kopp.
- Notes:
- Title on set container: Film noir classic collection, vol. 4 : 10 timeless suspense thrillers.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Videodisc release of the motion pictures produced in 1948 (Act of violence) and 1950 (Mystery street).
- Special features: film historian commentaries by Dr. Drew Casper on 'Act of violence' and Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward on 'Mystery street;' new featurettes "Act of violence : dealing with the devil" and "Mystery street : murder at Harvard;" original theatrical trailers.
- Contains:
- Mystery street
- ISBN:
- 1419851217
- 1419856596
- 9781419851216
- 9781419856594
- OCLC:
- 235077134
- Publisher Number:
- 012569797901
- 085391150206 (series, v. 4)
- 115028 Warner Home Video
- 115020 Warner Home Video (series, v. 4)
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