Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Island in the sun / 20th Century-Fox by arrangement with Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Inc. presents a CinemaScope production ; screenplay by Alfred Hayes ; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck ; directed by Robert Rossen.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

Cinema Classics Collection

Cinema classics collection.

Subjects:

Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 -- Film adaptations.

Nineteen fifties -- Drama.

Film adaptations.

West Indies -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979.

Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985.

Rossen, Robert, 1908-1966.

Mason, James, 1909-1984.

Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013.

Dandridge, Dorothy, 1922-1965.

Collins, Joan, 1933-

Rennie, Michael.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023

Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981. Island in the sun.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Fox Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in Cinemascope in 1957.

Based on the novel of the same title by Alec Waugh.

Special features: audio commentary by film writer and historian John Stanley; documentary "Dorothy Dandridge: Little Girl Lost" as seen on Biography on the A & E Network; original theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, F.A. Young; film editor, Reginald Beck; music, Malcolm Arnold.

Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie, Harry Belafonte.

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 4.0 surround, mono.

Closed captioned; audio in English 4.0 surround, Spanish or French mono; optional subtitles in English French or Spanish.

Other Number:

63145961

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

780388

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Island i