Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Command decision / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Sam Wood production ; screen play by William R. Laidlaw and George Froeschel ; produced by Sidney Franklin in association with Gottfried Reinhardt ; directed by Sam Wood.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Haines, William Wister, 1908-1989 -- Film adaptations.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Drama.

B-17 bomber -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Germany -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

War films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Wood, Sam, 1883-1949, film director.

Franklin, Sidney A., 1893-1972, film producer.

Reinhardt, Gottfried, film producer. 1913-1994

Laidlaw, William R., screenwriter.

Froeschel, George, screenwriter.

Gable, Clark, 1901-1960, actor.

Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-1984, actor.

Johnson, Van, 1916-2008, actor.

Donlevy, Brian, actor.

Bickford, Charles, 1891-1967, actor.

Hodiak, John, actor, actor.

Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956, actor.

Thompson, Marshall, 1925-1992.

Quine, Richard, 1920-1989, actor.

Mitchell, Cameron, 1918-1994, actor.

Sundberg, Clinton, 1903-1987, actor.

Collins, Ray, 1889-1965, actor.

Rózsa, Miklós, 1907-1995, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Haines, William Wister, 1908-1989. Command decision.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Souvenirs of death (Motion picture)

Container of (work): King-size canary (Motion picture)

Notes:

Based on the play by William Wister Haines.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Special features: Vintage Passing parade short "Souvenirs of death;" classic cartoon "King-size canary;" theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Harold Rosson ; editor, Harold F. Kress ; music, Miklos Rozsa.

Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford, John Hodiak, Edward Arnold, Marshall Thompson, Richard Quine, Cameron Mitchell, Clinton Sundberg, Ray Collins.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) original theatrical presentation; Dolby Digital mono.; dual-layer.

In English with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

ISBN:

1419849220

9781419849220

1419849220

9781419849220

Publisher Number:

79704

Other Number:

123378006

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

928409

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Command