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A raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Paman-Doris production ; screen play by Lorraine Hansberry ; produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 484 disc 1-2 + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 945.
- Criterion collection ; 945
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965--Film adaptations.
- Hansberry, Lorraine.
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
- African American families--Illinois--Chicago--Drama.
- African American families.
- Home ownership--Illinois--Chicago--Drama.
- Home ownership.
- Insurance claims--Drama.
- Insurance claims.
- Racism--United States--Drama.
- Racism.
- United States.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Social problem films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby mono.
- digital
- optical
- monaural
- Dolby digital
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
- Participant:
- Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr.; editors, William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax; music, Laurence Rosenthal.
- Notes:
- Based on the play A raisin in the sun / by Lorraine Hansberry.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1961.
- Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfer; interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry; new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine; episode of Theater talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis; excerpt from Black theatre : the making of a movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr.; new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier revisited; interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie; original theatrical trailer; plus: an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine" (in booklet).
- ISBN:
- 9781681435022
- 1681435020
- OCLC:
- 1057785155
- Publisher Number:
- 715515220712
- CC2947D The Criterion Collection
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