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Uniform Title Black stallion (Motion picture)
Title The black stallion / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; United Artists ; Francis Ford Coppola presents ; screenplay by Melissa Mathison & Jeanne Rosenberg and William D. Wittliff ; produced by Fred Roos and Tom Sternberg ; directed by Carroll Ballard ; from Omni Zoetrope Studios ; executive producer, Francis Coppola.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  BLU RAY DVD BLACK    Check Shelf
Edition Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in. rda
Description digital optical surround DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 rda
video file Blu-Ray region A rda
Motion picture.
Series The Criterion collection ; 765
Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 765.
System Details Blu-ray, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; requires Blu-ray player; DTS-HD Master Audio; 2.0 surround; Region A.
Cast Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse, Hoyt Axton, Michael Higgins, Ed McNamara, Dogmi Larbi, Mickey Rooney.
Credits Music, Carmine Coppola ; art directors, Aurelio Crugnola, Earl Preston ; editor, Robert Dalva ; director of photography, Caleb Deschanel.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Based on the novel by Walter Farley.
Widescreen (1.85:1).
Summary An adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel, in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse. After surviving together, they develop a bond and begin training to race once they are rescued.
Note Special features: Trailer ; short films (five short films by Carroll Ballard): Pigs! (1965), The perils of Priscilla (1969), Rodeo (1969), Seems like only yesterday (1971), Crystallization (1974); Carroll Ballard and Scott Foundas (new conversations between Ballard and film critic Scott Foundas); Caleb Deschanel (new interview with Deschanel); Mary Ellen Mark (featuring photographer Mary Ellen Mark discussing her photographs from the set). Booklet includes an essay by film critic Michael Sragow.
Audience MPAA rating: G.
Language In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Subject Black (Fictitious character : Farley) -- Drama.
Human-animal relationships -- Drama.
Boys -- Drama.
Horses -- Drama.
Shipwreck survival -- Drama.
Horse racing -- Training -- Drama.
Farley, Walter, 1915-1989. Black stallion series -- Film adaptations.
Genre/Form Action and adventure films.
Animal films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Children's films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Ballard, Carroll, film director.
Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- film producer.
Mathison, Melissa, screenwriter.
Rosenberg, Jeanne, screenwriter.
Wittliff, William D., screenwriter.
Roos, Fred, film producer.
Sternberg, Tom, film producer.
Reno, Kelly, 1966- actor.
Rooney, Mickey, actor.
Garr, Teri, 1944- actor.
Muse, Clarence, actor.
Axton, Hoyt, actor.
Higgins, Michael, 1920-2008, actor.
McNamara, Ed, -1986, actor.
Larbi, Doghmi, 1930-1992, actor.
Coppola, Carmine, 1910-1991, composer (expression)
Crugnola, Aurelio, -2011, art director.
Preston, Earl G., art director.
Dalva, Robert, 1942- editor of moving image work.
Deschanel, Caleb, 1944- director of photography.
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Farley, Walter, 1915-1989. Black stallion.
Zoetrope Studios., production company.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, film distributor.
United Artists Corporation, film distributor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Added Title Pigs!
Perils of Priscilla.
Rodeo.
Seems like only yesterday.
Crystallization.
ISBN 1681430150
9781681430157
Standard No. 715515151115
Music No. CC2503BD The Criterion Collection
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