| Title |
The verdict / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; a Zanuck/Brown production ; executive producer Burtt Harris ; screenplay by David Mamet ; directed by Sidney Lumet. |
| Edition |
Collector's edition ; anamorphic widescreen format (1:85:1). |
| OCLC |
124070565 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
024543372295 |
| Publisher |
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006] |
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©2006 |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Patients -- Civil rights -- Drama.
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Lawyers in popular culture -- Drama.
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Malpractice -- United States -- Trial practice -- Drama.
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Other
Subject heading/s |
Abogados -- Alcoholes consumo -- Teatro.
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Hombres -- Identidad -- Teatro.
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Lawyers -- Alcohol use -- Drama.
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Men -- Identity -- Drama.
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Self-doubt -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.
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Male friendship -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
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Effectiveness and validity of law -- Drama.
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Judgments, Criminal -- Drama.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Melodrama.
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Legal films.
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Feature films.
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Film adaptations.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Social problem -- Feature.
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| SUBJECT |
Burris Collection.
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| System details note |
DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital stereo (English)., Dolby Digital mono (French or Spanish). |
| Cast |
Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Binns, Julie Bovasso. |
| Creation/Production credits |
Music, Johnny Mandel ; film editor, Peter Frank ; director of photography, Andrzej Bartkowiak. |
| Target audience |
MPAA rating: R. |
| Summary |
An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career. |
| Language note |
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish; with optional English or Spanish subtitles. |
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Closed-captioned. |
| General note |
Based on the novel: The Verdict / by Barry Reed. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. |
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Program notes on container insert includes background on the production history of the film, and short excerpts from both "Paul Newman : a Biography" by Eric Lax and the original theatrical press materials. |
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Special features (disc 1): Optional audio commentary by Lumet and Newman. |
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Special features (disc 2): "The making of The Verdict" featuring movie clips, production stills, and interviews with various cast and crew (9 min.); "Paul Newman : The craft of acting" an interview with Newman (9 min.); "Sidney Lumet : The craft of directing" interviews with Lumet, Newman (11 min.); "Milestones in cinema history : The Verdict" with notes and commentary on events before, during, and after the film's creation (22 min.); "Hollywood Backstories : The Verdict" AMC featurette with Lumet, Newman, Mason, Brown, Zanuck, Harris, film historian Leonard Maltin, biographer Elena Oumano (23 min.). ; stills gallery; "The films of Paul Newman" with the original theatrical trailers of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1 min.), "From the Terrace" (3 min.), "Hombre" (3 min.), "The Hustler" (3 min.), "The Long Hot Summer" (3 min.), "Quintet" (2 min.), "The Towering Inferno" (2 min.), and "What a Way to Go" (3 min.); "The Verdict" theatrical release trailer (2 min.). |
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"Dual layer"--Container. |
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