Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The pirates of Penzance / a Universal picture ; Edward R. Pressman presents ; a Joseph Papp production ; screenplay by Wilford Leach ; producer, Joseph Papp ; executive producer, Edward R. Pressman ; directed by Wilford Leach.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

digital optical

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

Summary:

Gilbert and Sullivan's classic musical comedy of mistaken identity comes swashbuckling to the screen with all the laughs, songs, and stars that made it a long-running Broadway smash. This spectacular production adds some contemporary flash to the classic farce which follows the adventures of a roguish pirate leader and his young charge through numerous love affairs and sword battles.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: G.

Subjects:

Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 -- Film adaptations.

Pirates -- Drama.

Young women -- Drama.

Mistaken identity -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Pirate films.

Swashbuckler films.

Comedy films.

Romance films.

Musical films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Film adaptations.

Other Author:

Leach, Wilford, 1929-1988, screenwriter, film director.

Pressman, Edward R., film producer.

Papp, Joseph, film producer.

Slocombe, Douglas, 1913-2016, director of photography.

Coates, Anne V., editor of moving image work.

Scott, Elliott, designer.

Rand, Tom, costume designer.

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, lyricist.

Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900, composer (expression)

Daniele, Graciela, 1939- choreographer (expression)

Elliott, William (William F.), arranger of music, composer (expression)

Kline, Kevin, actor.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022 actor.

Ronstadt, Linda, actor.

Rose, George, 1920-1988, actor.

Smith, Rex, actor.

Azito, Tony, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Pirates of Penzance.

Universal Pictures (Firm), production company.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Includes trailer.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.

Based on the Broadway musical.

Director of photography, Douglas Slocombe ; film editor, Anne V. Coates ; production designer, Elliot Scott ; costume designer, Tom Rand ; words by William Schwenck Gilbert ; music by Arthur Seymour Sullivan ; choreography by Graciela Daniele ; music adapted, orchestrated, and conducted by William Elliott.

Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith, and Tony Azito.

DVD; NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital English 2.0; anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; dual layer.

In English; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publisher Number:

61114229

Other Number:

649742029

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

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