Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Cabin in the sky / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; screenplay by Joseph Schrank ; produced by Arthur Freed ; directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Edition:

Standard version.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

Summary:

The fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good-time bad girl Georgia Brown ... and caught in a tug-of-war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Root, Lynn, 1905-1997 -- Film adaptations.

African Americans -- Drama.

Good and evil -- Drama.

Temptation -- Drama.

Redemption -- Drama.

Genre:

Fantasy films.

Musical films.

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Minnelli, Vincente, film director.

Freed, Arthur, 1894-1973, film producer.

Schrank, Joseph, screenwriter.

Kress, Harold F., 1913-1999, editor of moving image work.

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977, actor.

Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977, actor.

Horne, Lena, actor.

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971, actor.

Ingram, Rex, 1895-1969, actor.

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974, performer.

Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969, composer (expression)

Latouche, John, 1914-1956, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Root, Lynn, 1905-1997. Cabin in the sky.

Duke Ellington Orchestra, performer.

Hall Johnson Choir, performer.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Based on the Broadway musical hit written by Lynn Root.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.

Special features: commentary by Evangela Anderson and Eva Anderson (wife and daughter of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), Fayard Nicholas, Black cultural scholars Todd Boyd and Drew Casper, with interview excerpts of Lena Horne; vintage Pete Smith specialty short Studio visit; audio-only bonus: Louis Armstrong "Ain't it the truth" outtake; theatrical trailer.

Cinematography, Sidney Wagner ; music, Vernon Duke and John Latouche ; editor, Harold F. Kress.

Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Duke Ellington and his orchestra, the Hall Johnson choir.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.; dual-layer.

English dialogue, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for main feature only.

ISBN:

1419817078

9781419817076

9781419817076 : DVD

1419817078 : DVD

Publisher Number:

67678

Other Number:

62764674

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

731109

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Cabin in