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The best man / United Artists ; screenplay by Gore Vidal ; produced by Stuart Millar and Lawrence Turman ; directed by Franklin Schaffner.
LIBRA DVD 026 839
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Election--Drama.
- Presidents.
- Presidential candidates--United States--Drama.
- Presidential candidates.
- Political campaigns--United States--Drama.
- Political campaigns.
- Presidents--Election.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Political films.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (102 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Gore Vidal's The best man
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2010.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Story of two candidates for their party's presidential nomination. One is an intellectual with a sense of morality, the other an opportunist who would win at all costs. The deciding factor is the endorsement of the out-going president who thrives on political in-fighting and deplores indecision.
- Participant:
- Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Haskell Wexler ; editor, Robert E. Swink ; music, Mort Lindsey.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
- Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Tracy).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 722384635
- Publisher Number:
- 883904219293 01
- 885444296291
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