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Show boat / producer, Carl Laemmle Jr. ; screenplay, Oscar Hammerstein II ; directed by James Whale.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 446 DVD + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Show boat, author.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1021.
- The Criterion collection ; 1021
- Standardized Title:
- Show boat (Motion picture : 1936)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968--Film adaptations.
- Ferber, Edna.
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945--Film adaptations.
- Kern, Jerome.
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945.
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.
- Showboats--Drama.
- Showboats.
- Entertainers--Drama.
- Entertainers.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Mississippi River.
- Mississippi River Region.
- Race relations--Drama.
- Race relations.
- Mississippi River--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Musical films.
- Romance films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Show business films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (18 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Showboat
- Edna Ferber's Show boat
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- digital optical mono
- unknown
- NTSC
- video file region 1
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Follows the life journey and heartbreak of Magnolia Hawks, daughter of a MIssissippi River showboat captain.
- Participant:
- Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.
- Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
- Based on the novel by Edna Ferber and the stage musical by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
- Mono, full screen 1.37:1.
- Booklet contains essay by critic Gary Giddins.
- Features: audio commentary from 1989 featuring American-musical historian Miles Kreuger; new interview with James Whale biographer James Curtis; "Recognizing race in Show boat," a new interview program featuring professor and author Shana L. Redmond; Academy Award-winning short documentary "Paul Robeson : tribute to an artist" (1979) by Saul J. Turell, newly restored; two performances from the sound prologue of the 1929 film version of Show boat, plus twenty minutes of silent excerpts from the film, with audio commentary by Kreuger; two radio adaptations of Show boat, featuring stage and screen cast members Allan Jones, Helen Morgan, and Charles Winninger, actor Orson Welles, and novelist Edna Ferber.
- For private home use only.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: Show boat (Motion picture : 1936) New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2020] (1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBN:
- 1681437074
- 9781681437071
- OCLC:
- 1158575050
- Publisher Number:
- 715515243315
- 00715515243315 gtin-14
- CC3128D Criterion Collection
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