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The turning point / a Paramount Picture ; screenplay by Warren Duff ; based on a story by Horace McCoy ; produced by Irving Asher ; directed by William Dieterle.
LIBRA DVD PN1997 .T87 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- KL studio classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public prosecutors--Drama.
- Public prosecutors.
- Organized crime--Drama.
- Organized crime.
- Criminal investigation--Drama.
- Criminal investigation.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film noir.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. black and white
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Kino Lorber, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby digital 2.0
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- When crusading district attorney John Conroy is tasked to crack down on a powerful crime syndicate, he recruits his no-nonsense newspaperman pal Jerry McKibbon, his sweetheart Mandy, and his grizzled detective father. But unbeknownst to the younger Conroy, the elder Conroy is mixed up in the same racket he's been appointed to take down.
- Participant:
- William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully, Ed Begley, Dan Dayton, Adele Longmire, Ted de Corsia.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Lionel Lindon ; editor, George Tomasini ; musical director, Irvin Talbot.
- Notes:
- Title and credits from screen.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
- Anamorphic full screen (1.37:1).
- Special features: audio commentary by author/film historian Alan K. Rode; theatrical trailer.
- Contains:
- Container of: Turning point (Motion picture : 1952)
- OCLC:
- 1338253129
- Publisher Number:
- 738329260330
- K26033 KL Studio Classics
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