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2005

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	A gathering of old men / Zenith Productions presents a film by Volker Schlondorff ; written by Charles Fuller ; produced by Gower Frost ; directed by Volker Schlöndorff.
Publisher, Date:	[United States] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, ©2005.
Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer, a racist, is shot. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her defense of this group of men who stand resolute against decades of injustice.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: Not rated; contains violence, profanity.
Subjects:	Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- -- Film adaptations. Racism -- Louisiana -- Drama. African American farmers -- Louisiana -- Drama. Murder -- Louisiana -- Drama. Melodrama.
Genre:	Made-for-TV movies. Feature films.
Other Author:	Schlöndorff, Volker. Fuller, Charles. Frost, Gower. Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-2024 Hunter, Holly, 1958- Widmark, Richard. Zenith Productions. Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
Notes:	Title from container. Based on the novel, A gathering of old men, by Ernest J. Gaines. Originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 1987. Director of photography, Edward Lachman ; editor, Nancy Baker, Craig McKay ; original music, Ron Carter ; costume designer, Susan Gamme ; production designer, Thomas A. Walsh. Louis Gossett Jr., Holly Hunter, Richard Widmark. DVD.
ISBN:	9786308533136 : DVD 6308533130 : DVD
Publisher Number:	18199
Other Number:	164620350
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	713468
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD TV Gatherin

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