Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Johnny stool pigeon / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Robert L. Richards ; produced by Aaron Rosenberg ; directed by William Castle ; a Universal-International picture.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : Kino Lorber, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray

region A

Summary:

San Francisco-based Treasury agent George Morton, goes undercover to break up a narcotic ring. Johnny Evans is a convict in Alcatraz who makes a deal with George, becoming the titular "stool pigeon." It''s a cop verse smuggler film.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

KL studio classics

KL studio classics.

Subjects:

Smugglers -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Drug traffic -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Informers -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Undercover operations -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Customs administration -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Drama.

Genre:

Film noir.

Crime films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Castle, William, film director.

Richards, Robert L. (Screenwriter), screenwriter.

Rosenberg, Aaron, 1912-1979, film producer.

Duff, Howard, 1913-1990, actor.

Winters, Shelley, actor.

Duryea, Dan, 1907-1968, actor.

Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010, actor.

McIntire, John, 1907-1991, actor.

Universal-International (Firm), presenter, production company.

Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.

Notes:

Title and credits from screen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.

Wide screen (1.37:1)

Special features: audio commentary by professor and film scholar Jason A. Ney; trailers for He ran all the way, The woman in the window, Let's kill uncle.

Director of photography, Maury Gertsman ; editor, Ted J. Kent ; music, Milton Schwarzwald.

Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Anthony Curtis, John McIntire, Gar Moore, Leif Erickson, Barry Kelley.

Blu-ray; region A; Wide screen (1.37:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0; 1920x1080p; requires Blu-ray player.

English dialogue; optional English subtitles.

Publisher Number:

K25785B

Other Number:

1347403143

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1014422

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Johnny s