Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Great Impostor (Motion picture : 1961)

Title:

The great impostor / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Liam O'Brien ; produced by Robert Arthur ; directed by Robert Mulligan.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

First shown as a school teacher placed under arrest by state troopers, the story recounts how the untrained, uneducated, yet brilliant young man, Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr., assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian navy. The unbelievable hide-and-seek story mixes suspense with humor, as Demara attempts to outwit and outrun the FBI, the police, a priest and several girlfriends.

Target Audience Note:

Rating : Not rated.

Series:

Universal Vault Series

Universal vault series.

Subjects:

Demara, Ferdinand Waldo, 1921-1982 -- Drama.

Crichton, Robert -- Film adaptations.

Impostors and imposture -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Film adaptations.