Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Cat people / an RKO Radio picture ; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., presents ; produced by Val Lewton ; written by DeWitt Bodeen ; directed by Jacques Tourneur.

Edition:

Two-disc DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

Description:

2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen @ fullscreen.

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A Serbian immigrant living in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 833

Criterion collection ; 833.

Subjects:

Felidae -- Drama.

Shapeshifting -- Drama.

Psychiatrists -- Drama.

Spouses -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Horror films.

Feature films.

Fantasy films.

Fiction films.

Drama.

Other Author:

Tourneur, Jacques, 1904-1977, film director.

Lewton, Val, film producer.

Bodeen, DeWitt, screenwriter.

Musuraca, Nick, director of photography.

Webb, Roy, 1888-1982, composer (expression)

Robson, Mark, 1913-1978, editor of moving image work.

D'Agostino, Albert, 1892-1970, art director.

Keller, Walter E., 1892-1962, art director.

Renie, costume designer.

Simon, Simone, actor.

Smith, Kent, 1907-1985, actor.

Conway, Tom, 1904-1967, actor.

Randolph, Jane, 1915-2009, actor.

Holt, Jack, 1888-1951, actor.

RKO Radio Pictures, presenter, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Cat people (Motion picture : 1942)

Container of (work): Val Lewton: the man in the shadows (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Title from title frame.

Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historian Gregory Mank, with excerpts from an audio interview with actor Simone Simon; Val Lewton: the man in the shadows, a 2008 feature-length documentary; interview with director Jacques Tourneur from 1979; new interview with cinematographer John Bailey about the look of the film; trailer; essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

Director of photography, Nicolas Musuraca ; art directors, Albert S. D'Agostino, Walter E. Keller ; gowns by Renié ; editor, Mark Robson ; music, Roy Webb.

Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt.

DVD, NTSC; region 1, fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital monaural.

English dialogue with optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

According to legend -- "Moja sestra?" -- Little Birdie -- Dr. Judd -- Alice's confession -- A moonlit stroll -- The deep end -- Too late -- "I need a drink" -- Another breed -- Color bars.

ISBN:

9781681432021

1681432021

9781681432021

0715515185912

Publisher Number:

CC2675DDVD

CC2675D

CC2675D-1

CC2675D-2

Other Number:

956323385

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

609833

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Cat peop