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A message to Garcia / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; Darryl F. Zanuck Twentieth Century production ; presented by Joseph M. Schenck ; associate producer, Raymond Griffith ; screenplay by W.P. Lipscomb and Gene Fowler ; directed by George Marshall.
LIBRA DVD BJ1611 .H82 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- 20th Century Fox cinema archives
- Cinema archives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915--Film adaptations.
- Hubbard, Elbert.
- Rowan, Andrew Summers.
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.
- Success--Drama.
- Success.
- Rowan, Andrew Summers--Drama.
- Spanish-American War, 1898--Secret service--Drama.
- Spanish-American War, 1898.
- History.
- Secret service.
- Cuba--History--Revolution, 1895-1898--Drama.
- Cuba.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- History.
- War films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation : [Distributed by] Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2013]
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; monaural.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Agent Rowan carries a message of cooperation from President McKinley to revolutionary Cuban General Garcia during the time of the Spanish-American War. Loosely based on an actual incident. The phrase also became a well-known allusion of American popular and business culture until the middle of the 20th century. According to language expert Charles Earle Funk, "to take a message to Garcia" was for years a popular American slang expression for taking initiative and is still used by some members of the military.
- Participant:
- Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin, Mona Barrie.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Rudolph Mate; editor, Herbert Levy; music, Louis Silvers.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Based on A message to Garcia / by Elbert Hubbard.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.
- OCLC:
- 851692490
- Publisher Number:
- 024543873839
- 387383 Twentieth Century Fox
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