The ballad of the sad café

DVD 2001

Miss Amelia runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her secretly brewed hooch. Her eccentric existence is threatned with the arrival of a dwarf who claims kinship and the reappearance of her rejected husband.

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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
surround
Dolby
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: 14A

Notes:

Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by Simon Callow
Based on the novel by Carson McCullers and the play by Edward Albee
Originally released as a motion picture in 1991
Director of photography, Walter Lassally ; editor, Andrew Marcus ; music, Richard Robbins
Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger, Cork Hubbert, Austin Pendleton, Beth Dixon
DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital surround, Full frame
In English or French

Control Number:

1195832

UPC:

065935136811

Other Authors:

Alliance Atlantis (Firm)
Callow, Simon, 1949-
Carradine, Keith, 1949-
Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
Robbins, Richard, 1940-2012
Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002

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