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Uniform Title Prowler (Motion picture : 1951)
Title The prowler / Horizon Pictures presents ; screenplay by Hugo Butler ; produced by S. P. Eagle ; directed by Joseph Losey.

Publication Info. [Tulsa, OK] : VCI Entertainment, [2011]

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  DVD PROWLER    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; NTSC, Dolby 2.0 mono.; all regions.
Cast Van Heflin (Webb Garwood); Evelyn Keyes (Susan Gilvray); John Maxwell (Bud Crocker); Katharine Warren (Mrs. Crocker); Emerson Treacy (William Gilvray); Madge Blake (Martha Gilvray); Wheaton Chambers (Doctor James); Robert Osterloh (coroner); Sherry Hall (John Gilvray); Louise Lorimer (motel manager); Louise Bates (doctor's wife); Steve Carruthers (Mr. Talbot); Betty Jane Howarth (Mrs. Talbot); Fred Hoose (foreman); Alan Harris (clerk).
Credits Director of photography, Arthur Miller ; editor, Paul Weatherwax ; music composed and conducted by Lyn Murray ; music director, Irving Friedman ; sound, Benny Winkler ; screenplay by Hugo Butler (as a front for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. cf container)
Note "Mastered from a completely restored 35 mm print c2009 UCLA Film & Television Archive and Film Noir Foundation." --Container.
Adapted from an original story by Robert Thoeren and Hans Wilhelm.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951 and distributed by United Artists.
The original film was restored by UCLC Film & Television Archive, funded by the Film Noir Foundation and the Stanford Theatre Foundation.
Summary A nefarious cop stalks a lonely, repressed Los Angeles housewife and decides to win her by killing her husband.
Note Bonus features include: documentary featurette "The cost of living : creating The prowler" with James Ellroy et al; "Masterpiece in the margins" Bertrand Tavernier on The prowler; "On the prowl: restoring The prowler" the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive partnership.
Language In English with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Adultery -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Husbands -- Crimes against -- Drama.
Police corruption -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Thoeren, Robert, 1903-1957 -- Film adaptations.
Wilhelm, Hans, 1904-1980 -- Film adaptations.
Genre/Form Film noir.
Crime films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Added Author Losey, Joseph. Director.
Spiegel, Sam. Producer.
Butler, Hugo, 1914-1968. Screenwriter.
Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976. Screenwriter.
Heflin, Van, 1910-1971. Actor.
Keyes, Evelyn, 1916-2008. Actor.
Maxwell, John. Actor.
Warren, Katherine, 1905-1965. Actor.
Treacy, Emerson, 1900-1967. Actor.
Blake, Madge, 1899-1969. Actor.
Murray, Lyn, 1909-1989. Composer.
Miller, Arthur C. Cinematographer.
Weatherwax, Paul. Film editor.
Friedman, Izzy, 1903-1981.
Winkler, Ben.
Wilhelm, Hans, 1904-1980.
Thoeren, Robert, 1903-1957.
United Artists Corporation.
UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Film Noir Foundation.
Stanford Theatre Foundation.
VCI Entertainment (Firm)
ISBN 1557397120
9781557397126
Standard No. 089859858925
Music No. 8589 VCI Entertainemt
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