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. |
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Strange cargo: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli. |
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A woman's face: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen, Albert Basserman, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek. |
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Flamingo Road: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian. |
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Torch song: Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Gig Young, Marjorie Rambeau. |
Note |
Five motion pictures featuring Joan Crawford, originally released between 1934 and 1953. |
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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. |
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Strange cargo: gritty drama of escaped cons and a dame confronting the elements and each other after a daring prison break. |
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A woman's face: Anna Holm, a professional blackmailer, despises herself and the world because of a disfiguring facial scar. |
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Flamingo Road: a tough carnival dancer is stranded in a small town and soon makes an enemy of the politically powerful, local sheriff. |
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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.). |
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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.
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Escapes -- Drama.
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Fugitives from justice -- Drama.
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Extortion -- Drama.
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Disfigured persons -- Drama.
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Dancers -- Drama.
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Southern States -- Drama.
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Singers -- Drama.
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Blind musicians -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Melodrama.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Added Author |
Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977. Actor.
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Raymond, Gene. Actor.
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Tone, Franchot. Actor.
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Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956. Actor.
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Gable, Clark, 1901-1960. Actor.
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Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975. Actor.
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Lorre, Peter. Actor.
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Douglas, Melvyn. Actor.
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Veidt, Conrad, 1893-1943. Actor.
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Scott, Zachary, 1914-1965. Actor.
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Greenstreet, Sydney. Actor.
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Wilding, Michael, 1912-1979. Actor.
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Young, Gig, 1913-1978. Actor.
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Brown, Clarence, 1890-1987. Director.
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Weingarten, Lawrence, 1897-1975. Producer.
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Meehan, John, 1890-1954. Screenwriter.
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Borzage, Frank. Director.
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Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Producer.
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Hazard, Lawrence. Screenwriter.
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Cukor, George, 1899-1983. Director.
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Saville, Victor, 1895-1979. Producer.
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Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980. Screenwriter.
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Paul, Elliot, 1891-1958. Screenwriter.
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Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962. Director.
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Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962. Producer.
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Wilder, Robert, 1901-1974. Screenwriter.
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Walters, Charles, 1911-1982. Director.
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Berman, Henry, 1914-1979. Producer.
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Franklin, Sidney A., 1893-1972. Producer.
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Hayes, John Michael, 1919-2008. Screenwriter.
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Lustig, Jan. Screenwriter.
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Sale, Richard, 1911-1993.
Not too narrow-- not too deep.
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Croisset, Francis de, 1877-1937.
Etait une fois.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Warner Bros.
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Turner Entertainment Co.
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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Added Title |
Sadie McKee.
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Strange cargo.
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Woman's face.
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Flamingo Road.
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Torch song.
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ISBN |
141985240X |
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9781419852404 |
Standard No. |
012569647459 |
Music No. |
2000000740-2000000744 Warner Home Video |
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