Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Rain / director, Lewis Milestone.

Edition:

90th anniversary special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[Tulsa, Oklahoma] : VCI Entertainment ; Pottstown, PA : MVD Visual, [2022]

Description:

2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Pre-code film about a call girl who escapes a jail sentence by traveling to the South Seas, and the missionary who becomes obsessed with orchestrating her redemption.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Prostitutes -- Drama.

Conduct of life -- Drama.

Missionaries -- Drama.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Milestone, Lewis, 1895-1980, film producer, film director.

Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959, screenwriter.

Marsh, Oliver T., 1893-1941, director of photography.

Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977, actor.

Huston, Walter, 1884-1950, actor.

Howard, Fred, 1899-1960, actor.

Hendricks, Ben, actor.

Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970, composer (expression)

Mansfield, W. Duncan, editor of moving image work.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Rain.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Colton, John, 1887-1946. Rain.

VCI Entertainment (Firm), presenter, publisher.

MVD Visual (Firm), publisher.

Mary Pickford Foundation, presenter.

Feature Productions, Inc., production company.

United Artists Corporation, film distributor.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Rain (Motion picture : 1932)

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Based on the short story by W. Somerset Maugham and the subsequent play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph.

Special features: Commentary tracks by writer/historians Mick LaSalle and Richard Barrios; liner notes by Marc Wannamaker; alternate 76-minute "cut version" of the 1938 Atlantic release; original theatrical trailer; poster & photo gallery; period appropriate Betty Boop cartoon and newsreel.

Producer, Lewis Milestone for Feature Productions ; director, Lewis Milestone ; writer, Maxwell Anderson ; cinematography, Oliver T. Marsh ; composer, Alfred Newman ; editor, Duncan Mansfield.

Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks, William Gargan, Mary Shaw, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi.

DVD.

Contents:

Disc 1. Uncut version (94 min.) -- Disc 2. Alternate cut version (76 min.).

ISBN:

9786318806701 : DVD

6318806709 : DVD

Publisher Number:

VCI8919

Other Number:

1336864139

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

984735

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Rain