Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

All that heaven allows / Universal-International presents ; produced by Ross Hunter ; directed by Douglas Sirk ; screenplay by Peg Fenwick.

Edition:

DVD edition.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]

Description:

2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 95

Criterion collection ; 95.

Subjects:

Widows -- Drama.

Young men -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

May-December romances -- Drama.

Genre:

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987, film director.

Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985, actor.

Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007, actor.

Moorehead, Agnes, 1900-1974 actor.

Skinner, Frank, 1897-1968, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Lee, Edna, 1890-1963. All that heaven allows.

Universal-International (Firm), production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Based on the story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.

Special features include audio commentary; Rock Hudson's home movies, an essay film by Mark Rappaport; interview with Douglas Sirk from 1982 French television program Cinéma cinémas; excerpts from Behind the Mirror, a profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary; Contract kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview; trailer.

Drector of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Frank Gross ; music, Frank Skinner.

Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds, Hayden Rorke.

DVD, monaural, 1.75:1 aspect ratio, SDH, region 1, Dolby audio.

Optional subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).

Contents:

disc one. Feature ; Commentary ; Trailer -- disc two. Rock Hudson's home movies ; Behind the Mirror, a profile of Douglas Sirk ; Contract kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk ; Cinéma cinémas.

ISBN:

9781681435565

168143556X

9781681435565 : DVD

168143556X : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC2999D

CC2999D-1

CC2999D-2

Other Number:

1088901368

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

810688

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE All that