Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Betsy [videorecording] / a Harold Robbins International production ; an Allied Artists film ; directed by Daniel Petrie ; produced by Robert B. Weston ; screenplay by William Bast and Walter Bernstein.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1999.

Description:

1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Adapted from a Harold Robbins potboiler, "The Betsy" offers power struggles, incest, adultery, gold digging, and car racing. Laurence Olivier plays a ruthless but fallible auto tycoon with a tortured family history including a weakling son (Paul Rudd), a daughter-in-law he loves too much (Katharine Ross), a resentful grandson (Robert Duvall), and a devoted great-granddaughter (Kathleen Beller) to whom he bequeaths most of his fortune. In the midst of all these family squabbles is racing enthusiast Angelo Perino (a very young Tommy Lee Jones) whom the old man hires to build a revolutionary, ecologically advanced car which will be called The Betsy after his great-granddaughter. Angelo builds The Betsy (the car), seduces Betsy (the great-granddaughter), and even has a fling with Duvall's mistress, played by the haughty Lesley-Anne Down.

Subjects:

Rich people -- Drama.

Automobile racing -- Drama.

Adultery -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Feature films.

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.

Duvall, Robert.

Ross, Katharine, 1940-

Jones, Tommy Lee, 1946-

Beller, Kathleen, 1955-

Petrie, Daniel.

Bast, William.

Bernstein, Walter.

Roland, Rita.

Tosi, Mario, 1935-2021

Barry, John, 1933-2011.

Robbins, Harold, 1916-1997. Betsy.

Allied Artists Productions.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Harold Robbins' The Betsy.

Notes:

Rated R.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.

Presented by Emanuel L. Wolf ; film editor, Rita Roland ; director of photography, Mario Tosi ; music, John Barry.

Lawrence Olivier (Number One), Robert Duval (Loren Hardeman III), Katharine Ross (Sally Hardeman), Tommy Lee Jones (Angelo Perino), Kathleen Beller (Betsy).

DVD ; region 1 ; standard version ; Dolby digital mono.

In English with optional French soundtrack; closed captioned.

ISBN:

0790739968

9780790739960

Other Number:

47251914

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

354923

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Betsy

Medium:

[videorecording]