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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Local hero / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Enigma Production for Goldcrest ; produced by David Puttnam ; written and directed by Bill Forsyth.

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]

Description:

2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

stamping

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 994.

Subjects:

Fishing villages -- Scotland -- Drama.

Petroleum industry and trade -- Scotland -- Drama.

Scotland -- Drama.

Genre:

Comedy films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Forsyth, Bill, 1946- film director, screenwriter.

Puttnam, David, 1941- film producer.

Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994, actor.

Riegert, Peter, 1947- actor.

Mackay, Fulton, 1922-1987, actor.

Lawson, Denis, actor.

Capaldi, Peter, actor.

Black, Jennfier (Actor), actor.

Seagrove, Jenny, actor.

Knopfler, Mark, composer (expression)

Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.

Wide screen.

Director-approved special edition features: New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns, Shoooting from heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges, episode of The south bank show, the making of :Local hero, 1983 interview with Rorsyth, plus an essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray.

Music by Mark Knopfler ; photograph, Chris Menges ; editor, Michael Bradsell.

Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton MacKay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen 1.78:1; monaural; color.

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

ISBN:

9781681436371

168143637X

9781681436371 : DVD

168143637X : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC3070DDVD

Other Number:

1110580921

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

804267

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Local he