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The prisoner of Second Avenue / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Melvin Frank production of a Neil Simon play ; screenplay by Neil Simon ; produced and directed by Melvin Frank.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Archive collection
- Warner archive
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Simon, Neil--Film adaptations.
- Simon, Neil.
- Married people--Drama.
- Married people.
- Apartment houses--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- Apartment houses.
- New York (N.Y.)--Drama.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Dark comedy films.
- Comedy films.
- Fiction films.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Prisoner of 2nd Avenue
- Prisoner of 2nd Ave
- Prisoner of Second Ave
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004]
- Language Note:
- In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby Digital
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Forty-eight-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison just lost his job. Soon he’ll lose his wardrobe, temper, self-respect and maybe his mind. Academy Award winners Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft are in top form as Mel and his loving wife, Edna, skillfully melding zany farce with the bittersweet agony of middle-class people whose wall-to-wall carpeting has been yanked
- Participant:
- Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Maxine Stuart, Ed Peck, Ivor Francis, Gene Blakely, Stack Pierce, Patricia Marshall.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Philip Lathrop ; film editor, Bob Wyman ; music, Marvin Hamlisch ; costume designer, Joel Schumacher ; art director, Preston Ames.
- Notes:
- Based on the play by Neil Simon.
- Originally broadcast as a motion picture in 1975.
- Wide screen (2.40:1).
- Special features: Anne Bancroft on Dinah!; Making of The prisoner of Second Avenue; theatrical trailer.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Contains:
- Container of: Prisoner of Second Avenue (Motion picture)
- ISBN:
- 0790789841
- 9780790789842
- OCLC:
- 54755655
- Publisher Number:
- 085393185121
- 883929682225 (MOD)
- 31851 Warner Home Video
- Access Restriction:
- For private home use only.
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