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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

The thin blue line / IFC Films ; an American Playhouse presentation ; an Errol Morris film ; executive producer, Lindsay Law ; produced by Mark Lipson ; directed by Errol Morris.

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

wide screen (1.78:1)

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 753

Criterion collection ; 753.

Subjects:

Adams, Randall Dale -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Harris, David, 1960-2004.

Murder -- Texas -- Dallas -- Case studies.

Police murders -- Texas -- Case studies.

Genre:

Feature films.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Morris, Errol, film director.

Law, Lindsay, film producer.

Lipson, Mark, film producer.

Adams, Randall Dale, commentator.

Harris, David, 1960-2004, commentator.

Rose, Gus, commentator.

Johnson, Jackie, commentator.

Touchton, Marshall, commentator.

Czapsky, Stefan, director of photography.

Chappell, Robert, 1952- director of photography.

Bafaloukos, Ted, production designer.

Barnes, Paul, 1951- editor of moving image work.

Glass, Philip, composer (expression)

Riesman, Michael, conductor.

Oppenheimer, Joshua, 1974- interviewee (expression)

Schaffer, Randy, 1950- interviewee (expression)

Musser, Charles, writer of supplementary textual content.

IFC Films, production company.

American Playhouse Theatrical Films, presenter, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Wide screen (1.78:1).

Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.

Special features: Errol Morris (interview with the director); Joshua Oppenheimer (interview with filmmaker Oppenheimer about The thin blue line); Today: "close up" (excerpt from the March 22, 1989 episode of NBC's Today show features an interview with the newly freed Randall Adams, his attorney Randy Schaffer, and director Errol Morris). Insert includes an essay by film scholar Charles Musser.

Directors of photography, Stefan Czapsky, Robert Chappell ; production designer, Ted Bafaloukos ; editor, Paul Barnes ; original music composed by Philip Glass ; music conducted by Michael Riesman.

Commentators, Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton, Dale Holt, Sam Kittrell, Hootie Nelson, Dennis Johnson, Floyd Jackson, Edith James, Dennis White, Don Metcalfe, Emily Miller, R.L. Miller, Elba Carr, Michael Randell, Melvyn Carson Bruder ; re-enactments, Adam Goldfine, Derek Horton, Ron Thornhill, Marianne Leone, Amanda Carplo, Michael Nicoll, Michael Cirilla, Phyllis Rodgers.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation (1.78:1 aspect ratio); 2.0 Dolby Digital Surround.

English language soundtrack with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Contents:

Special features: Errol Morris (interview) -- Joshua Oppenheimer (interview) -- Today : "close up" (Today show interview with Randall Adams, attorney Randy Schaffer, and director Errol Morris).

ISBN:

9781604659719

1604659718

Publisher Number:

CC2463D

CC2463DDVD

Other Number:

903552930

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

564822

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 364.1523 Thin blu