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Title Joan Crawford collection. Volume 2.

Publication Info. [United States] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008]

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD SADIE MCKEE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD STRANGE CARGO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD FLAMINGO ROAD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD WOMAN'S FACE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD TORCH SONG    Check Shelf
Description 5 videodiscs (approximately 495 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital, mono.
Note Title from container.
Cast Sadie McKee: Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston.
Strange cargo: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli.
A woman's face: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen, Albert Basserman, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek.
Flamingo Road: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian.
Torch song: Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Gig Young, Marjorie Rambeau.
Note Five motion pictures featuring Joan Crawford, originally released between 1934 and 1953.
Full screen (discs 1-4) and widescreen (disc 5) presentations.
Summary Sadie McKee: story of a maid who has to choose between marrying for love or marrying for money.
Strange cargo: gritty drama of escaped cons and a dame confronting the elements and each other after a daring prison break.
A woman's face: Anna Holm, a professional blackmailer, despises herself and the world because of a disfiguring facial scar.
Flamingo Road: a tough carnival dancer is stranded in a small town and soon makes an enemy of the politically powerful, local sheriff.
Torch song: a hard as nails Broadway musical star who chews up people for lunch learns humility and finds love in the arms of a blind pianist.
Contents Disc 1. Sadie McKee / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screenplay by John Meehan ; produced by Lawrence Weingarten ; directed by Clarence Brown (1934 ; 93 min., b&w) -- Disc 2. Strange cargo / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screen play by Lawrence Hazard ; based on the book "Not too narrow ... not too deep" by Richard Sale ; produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; directed by Frank Borzage (1940 ; 113 min., b&w) -- Disc 3. A woman's face / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Victor Saville ; screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and Elliot Paul, from the play "Il etait une fois" by Francis de Croisset ; directed by George Cukor (1941 ; 106 min., b&w) -- Disc 4. Flamingo Road / a Warner Bros. release ; screen play by Robert Wilder ; based on a play by Robert and Sally Wilder ; directed by Micharl Curtiz ; produced by Jerry Wald (1949 ; 94 min., b&w) -- Disc 5. Torch song / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screen play by John Michael Hayes and Jan Lustig ; based on a story by I.A.R. White ; directed by Charles Walters ; produced by Henry Berman and Sidney Franklin, Jr. (1953 ; 89 min., col.).
Note Special features: Disc 1: vintage comedy short, "Goofy movies #4"; classic cartoon, "Toyland broadcast"; theatrical trailer -- Disc 2: new featurette, "Gable & Crawford"; vintage short, "More about Nostradamus"; classic cartoon, "The lonesome stranger"; theatrical trailer -- Disc 3: vintage short, "You can't fool a camera"; classic cartoon, "Little Cesario"; audio-only bonus, two radio adaptations, one with Bette Davis and one with ida Lupino; theatrical trailer -- Disc 4: new featurette, "Crawford at Warners"; classic cartoon, "Curtain razor"; audio-only bonus, radio adaptation with the film's stars; theatrical trailer -- Disc 5: new featurette, "Tough baby: Torch song"; classic cartoon, "TV of tomorrow"; vintage Crawford "Jimmy Fund public service announcement" trailer; audio-only bonus, Crawford recording sessions; theatrical trailer.
Language English and French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Love -- Drama.
Escapes -- Drama.
Fugitives from justice -- Drama.
Extortion -- Drama.
Disfigured persons -- Drama.
Dancers -- Drama.
Southern States -- Drama.
Singers -- Drama.
Blind musicians -- Drama.
Genre/Form Melodrama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977. Actor.
Raymond, Gene. Actor.
Tone, Franchot. Actor.
Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956. Actor.
Gable, Clark, 1901-1960. Actor.
Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975. Actor.
Lorre, Peter. Actor.
Douglas, Melvyn. Actor.
Veidt, Conrad, 1893-1943. Actor.
Scott, Zachary, 1914-1965. Actor.
Greenstreet, Sydney. Actor.
Wilding, Michael, 1912-1979. Actor.
Young, Gig, 1913-1978. Actor.
Brown, Clarence, 1890-1987. Director.
Weingarten, Lawrence, 1897-1975. Producer.
Meehan, John, 1890-1954. Screenwriter.
Borzage, Frank. Director.
Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Producer.
Hazard, Lawrence. Screenwriter.
Cukor, George, 1899-1983. Director.
Saville, Victor, 1895-1979. Producer.
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980. Screenwriter.
Paul, Elliot, 1891-1958. Screenwriter.
Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962. Director.
Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962. Producer.
Wilder, Robert, 1901-1974. Screenwriter.
Walters, Charles, 1911-1982. Director.
Berman, Henry, 1914-1979. Producer.
Franklin, Sidney A., 1893-1972. Producer.
Hayes, John Michael, 1919-2008. Screenwriter.
Lustig, Jan. Screenwriter.
Sale, Richard, 1911-1993. Not too narrow-- not too deep.
Croisset, Francis de, 1877-1937. Etait une fois.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Warner Bros.
Turner Entertainment Co.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Sadie McKee.
Strange cargo.
Woman's face.
Flamingo Road.
Torch song.
ISBN 141985240X
9781419852404
Standard No. 012569647459
Music No. 2000000740-2000000744 Warner Home Video
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