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Title The comedians / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents Peter Glenville's production ; ; screenplay by Graham Greene ; produced & directed by Peter Glenville.

Publication Info. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2006.
1967.

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD COMEDIANS    DUE 04-11-24
Description 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital, English mono.
Audience Not rated.
Note Originally produced as motion picture in 1967.
Cast Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford, Lillian Gish.
Summary A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
Note Based on the novel by Graham Greene.
Special features: Vintage featurette, "The comedians in Africa."
Language English dialogue with optional English, Spanish or French subtitles; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Dictatorship -- Drama.
Political corruption -- Drama.
Interpersonal conflict -- Drama.
Adultery -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Glenville, Peter, 1913-1996.
Burton, Richard, 1925-1984.
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.
Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.
Ustinov, Peter.
Ford, Paul, 1901-1976.
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Comedians.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Turner Entertainment Co.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 1419842188
9781419842184
Standard No. 012569794818
Music No. 79481 Warner Home Video
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