Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Hell's house [videorecording] / Astor Pictures Corporation presents ; producer, B.F. Zeidman ; screenwriters, B. Harrison Orkow, Paul Gangelin ; director, Howard Higgin.

Publisher, Date:

New York, N.Y. : Kino Classics, 2013.

Description:

1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

laser optical, NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder Matt Kelly, who impresses the young man with his boastful swagger and alleged political connections, although in reality he's a bootlegger. The boy's life is disrupted when, as one of Kelly's hired hands, he refuses to identify his boss during a police raid and is sentenced to three years of hard labor in reform school.

Subjects:

Juvenile detention homes -- Drama.

False imprisonment -- Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Zeidman, B. F. (Bennie F.), 1896-1970.

Orkow, Harrison.

Gangelin, Paul, 1898-1961.

Higgin, Howard, 1893-1938.

Davis, Bette, 1908-1989.

O'Brien, Pat, 1899-1983.

Durkin, Junior, 1915-1935.

Coughlin, Junior.

Siegler, Allen.

Schroeder, Edward.

Kino Classics (Firm)

Astor Pictures.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.

"This archival edition of Hell's house was mastered in HD from an original 35mm print from Bette Davis's personal collection, donated to the Library of Congress. The first reel is considerably worn, suffering nitrate decomposition and some missing frames. The film is therwise intact"--Title screens.

Cinematographer, Allen G. Siegler ; film editor, Edward Schroeder.

Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Junior Coughlin.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1).

ISBN:

9786315049781

6315049788

Publisher Number:

K1150

Other Number:

843955444

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

402844

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Hell's h

Medium:

[videorecording]