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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The perfect crime / a Desert Penguin Pictures, LLC production for American experience ; WGBH ; American Experience Films presents ; written by Michelle Ferrari ; produced and directed by Cathleen O'Connell.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

Recounts the case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who, in 1924, kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for, as they would confess, for the thrill of it.

Target Audience Note:

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-14 (this program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age).

Subjects:

Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971.

Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936.

Murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.

Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.

Genre:

True crime television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

O'Connell, Cathleen, television director, television producer.

Ferrari, Michelle, screenwriter.

Platt, Oliver, narrator.

Cromwell, James, narrator.

Muldaur, Clare, composer (expression)

Manchon, Olivier, composer (expression)

Kusiak, John, composer (expression)

Desert Penguin Pictures (Firm), production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Contained in (work): American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Documentary.

"Subtitles are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions"--Container.

Originally produced as an episode of the television series: American experience, broadcast by PBS Feb. 9, 2016.

Running time indicated on container: approx. 60 minutes; actual running time: 54 minutes.

Edited by Bernice Schneider ; cinematography by Sandra Chandler, Lincoln Else, Dana Kupper, Jason Longo, Stephen McCarthy ; original music by Clare Manchon and Olivier Manchon ; additional music by John Kusiak ; executive producer, Mark Samels.

Narrator, Oliver Platt ; voice of Clarence Darrow, James Cromwell.

DVD; NTSC, region 1, widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

In English with optional English subtitles.

ISBN:

9781627896092

1627896090

0841887027465

Publisher Number:

AMX62805

160639

Other Number:

937858669

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

597563

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 364.1523 Perfect