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Raisin in the sun (Motion picture : 1961)

A raisin in the sun / screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry ; produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie.

Special edition.

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]

2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.

Criterion collection ; 945

Criterion collection ; 945.

African American families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Home ownership -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Insurance claims -- Drama.

Feature films.

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Petrie, Daniel, film director.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965, screenwriter.

Rose, Philip, 1921-2011, film producer.

Susskind, David, 1920-1987, film producer.

Dee, Ruby, actor.

Poitier, Sidney, actor.

McNeil, Claudia, actor.

Columbia Pictures Corporation, presenter.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

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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