Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The deadly tower / an MGM TV production ; produced by Antonio Calderon ; teleplay by William Douglas Lansford ; story by Antonio Calderon and William Douglas Lansford ; directed by Jerry Jameson.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

It's the University of Texas campus in Austin, but it seems like a war zone. Gunfire resounds from everywhere. People fall. Others scramble to flee or help the wounded. Meanwhile, from atop the school's landmark Tower, Charles Whitman fires off round after lethal round. The deadly tower is the powerful story of the 1966 event that was at the time the largest one-person murder spree in U.S. history.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group archive collection

Archive collection.

Subjects:

Whitman, Charles Joseph, 1941-1966 -- Drama.

University of Texas at Austin -- Drama.

Mass murder -- Texas -- Austin -- Drama.

School shootings -- Texas -- Austin -- Drama.

Genre:

Made-for-TV movies.

Action and adventure films.

Other Author:

Calderón, Antonio.

Lansford, William Douglas.

Jameson, Jerry.

Russell, Kurt.

Yñiguez, Richard.

Beatty, Ned.

Roberts, Pernell.

James, Clifton, 1920-2017.

Forsythe, John, 1918-2010.

Roland, Gilbert, 1905-1994.

MGM-TV.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 1975.

"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "Play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices including recorders and PC drives"--Container.

Director of photography, Matthew F. Leonetti ; film editor, Tom Stevens ; music by Don Ellis.

Kurt Russell, Richard Yñiguez, Ned Beatty, Pernell Roberts, Clifton James, John Forsythe ; narrator, Gilbert Roland.

DVD, full-screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

Web Site:

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Other Number:

665146399

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

672979

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Deadly t