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Local hero / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Enigma Production for Goldcrest ; produced by David Puttnam ; written and directed by Bill Forsyth.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 032 444 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 994.
- Standardized Title:
- Local hero (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fishing villages--Scotland--Drama.
- Fishing villages.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Scotland--Drama.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Scotland--Drama.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- color
- stamping
- Edition:
- Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
- Participant:
- Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton MacKay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove.
- Credits:
- Music by Mark Knopfler; photography, Chris Menges; editor, Michael Bradsell.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of motion picture produced in 1983.
- Wide screen.
- Director-approved special edition features: new conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns; Shooting from the heart (a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges); episode of The South Bank show; The making of Local hero; 1983 interview with Forsyth; and (on insert), Our man in Ferness (an essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray).
- ISBN:
- 9781681436371
- 168143637X
- OCLC:
- 1110580921
- Publisher Number:
- 715515234719
- CC3070DDVD The Criterion Collection
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