Title from container.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry ; new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine ; episode of Theater talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis ; excerpt from Black theatre: the making of a movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. ; new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier revisited ; interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie ; trailer ; plus: an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine."
Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, wide screen presentation; Dolby mono.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
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