| Description |
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Paramount DVD collection
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| System Details |
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital, mono. |
| Cast |
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea, Ed Begley. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Sol Polito ; editorial supervision by Warren Low ; music score, Franz Waxman. |
| Note |
Videodisc release of the 1948 motion picture by Hal Willis Productions, Inc. Released on videocassette in 1984 by Paramount Pictures Corp. |
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Based on the radio play by Lucille Fletcher. |
| Summary |
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered. |
| Note |
Special features: theatrical trailer. |
| Language |
Includes English and French language tracks, with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Telephone calls -- Drama.
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Husband and wife -- Drama.
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Murder -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Detective and mystery films.
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Film noir.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Wallis, Hal B., 1899-1986.
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Litvack, Anatole, 1902-1974.
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Fletcher, Lucille.
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Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990.
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Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994.
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Richards, Ann.
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Corey, Wendell, 1914-1968.
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Vermilyea, Harold, 1889-1958.
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Begley, Ed, Jr.
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Polito, Sol, 1892-1960.
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Low, Warren, 1905-1989.
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Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967.
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Hal Wallis Productions, Inc.
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Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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| ISBN |
0792179226 |
| Standard No. |
097360480146 |
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