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Le samouraï / Janus Films ; distribution, René Chateau ; Prodis, Raymond Borderie et Eugène Lépicier présentent ; film de Jean-Pierre Melville.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 030 608 DVD + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 306.
- The Criterion collection ; 306
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Assassins--Drama.
- Assassins.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Murder--Investigation--Drama.
- Murder.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Crime films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- Title from English subtitles: Samurai
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In French; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital optical mono Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
- Participant:
- Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Caty Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Henri Decaë; editors, Monique Bennot, Yo Maurette; music, François de Roubaix.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1967.
- Special features: interviews from 2005 with Jean-Pierre Melville historians Rui Nogueira and Ginette Vincendeau; collection of excerpts from archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Cathy Rosier, Nathalie Delon and François Périer; "Melville-Delon : D'honneur et de nuit" short documentary about the friendship of the director and actor; original theatrical trailer; booklet with essay by film scholar David Thomson, a tribute by filmmaker John Woo, and an excerpt from Rui Nogueira's book Melville on Melville.
- ISBN:
- 9781681433820
- 1681433826
- OCLC:
- 1012401712
- Publisher Number:
- 715515206716
- CC2833D The Criterion Collection
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