Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Mark Twain tonight! / produced by David Susskind ; directed by Paul Bogart ; production created & adapted by Hal Holbrook ; a production of Vining Productions, Inc. in associationn with the CBS Television Network.

Publisher, Date:

West Long Branch, New Jersey : Kultur, [1999]

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

Fullscreen

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Hal Holbrook's landmark one-man show is most startling in the freshness of Twain's stinging commentary on politics, the art of lying, religion, patriotism, slavery and man's notion that he is the Creator's pet.

Subjects:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Drama.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Parodies, imitations, etc.

One-person shows (Performing arts)

Genre:

Televised performances.

Filmed performances.

Monologues (Drama)

Television specials.

Other Author:

Bogart, Paul, television director.

Holbrook, Hal, adapter, performer.

Susskind, David, 1920-1987, television producer.

Fiorentino, Imero, 1928-2013, director of photography.

Shultis, Jack, editor of moving image work.

Vining Productions, television production company.

Kultur International Films, film distributor.

CBS Television Network, broadcaster.

Other Title:

Title on container: Hal Holbrook in the CBS Television network special Mark Twain tonight

Notes:

Material adapted by Hal Holbrook through the courtesy of the Estate of Samuel L. Clemens.

Performance rights: HOME: home use only.

Camera, Imero Fiorentino ; editor, Jack Shultis.

Hal Holbrook.

Originally broadcast as a CBS Television Network special on March 6, 1967.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Whiskey-train-long dog -- Smoke rings -- Half a gallon -- The water closet -- Reporter & Congress -- His grandfather's old ram -- A hymn book -- The silent lie -- Huck & Jim -- Lower than the angels -- Lynching -- The creator's pet -- Ghost story -- Hannibal boyhood -- Piloting at sunrise -- Gold rush -- 70th escape & Satan -- Mary Ann.

ISBN:

0769718914

9780769718910

Publisher Number:

D1891

Other Number:

44127057

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

92607

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 818 Mark Twa