Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Story of Ruth (Motion picture : 1960)

Title:

The story of Ruth [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Cinemascope Picture ; a Samuel G. Engel production ; written for the screen by Norman Corwin ; directed by Henry Koster.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD NTSC region 1

Summary:

A Moabite priestess renounces her Gods for the God of Israel. Since she is a foreigner, her dedication is not readily accepted by the villagers. All the spectacle of heathen idolatry and human sacrifice. One of the Bible's timeless love stories.

Target Audience Note:

"Canadian Home Video Rating: G."--Container.

Subjects:

Ruth (Biblical figure) -- Drama.

Bible. Ruth -- Film adaptations.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Ruth (Figura biblica) -- Teatro.

Relacions humanas -- Teatro.

Genre:

Feature films.

Bible films.

Film adaptations.

Religious films.

Historical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Koster, Henry, 1905-1988, film director.

Engel, Samuel G., 1904-1984, film producer.

Corwin, Norman, 1910-2011, screenwriter.

Whitman, Stuart, actor.

Tryon, Thomas, actor.

Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978, actor.

Eden, Elana, 1940- actor.

Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967, composer (expression)

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, film production company.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., film distribution company.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: original theatrical trailers (for this film and 3 others); Movietone News; Story of Ruth preview.rog

Cinematography, Arthur E. Arling ; film editing, Jack W. Holmes ; music, Franz Waxman.

Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, Viveca Lindfors, Jeff Morrow, Elana Eden.

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 4.0 surround; Dolby Digital mono. (dubbed French and Spanish); dual-layer.

In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish; optional subtitles in English.

Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

ISBN:

0024543228936

5558577096

Publisher Number:

2232893

Other Number:

67778209

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

582057

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Story of

Medium:

[videorecording]