Jerome Bixby's The man from Earth

DVD 2007

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious and intense interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues that he is an immortal who has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

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College teachers Drama

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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical surround Dolby digital 5.1 Dolby digital 2.0
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD video Region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Other Title:

Man from Earth

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007
Special features: Audio commentary with producer/director Richard Schenkman and actor John Billingsley; audio commentary with executive producer Emerson Bixby and author/sci fi scholar Gary Westfahl; contains four original behind the scenes featurettes: "From script to screen", "Star Trek: Jerome Bixby's Sci Fi Legacy", "On the set", "The story of the story."
Director of photography, Afshin Shahidi ; music composed by Mark Hinton Stewart ; edited by Neil Grieve
John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford, William Katt, Annika Peterson, Richard Riehle, David Lee Smith, Alexis Thorpe, Tony Todd
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround 5.1, Dolby Digital surround 2.0
Closed-captioned in English

Control Number:

2792861

UPC:

013131546699
760137051282
760137395492

Other Authors:

Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc., film distributor
Billingsley, John, 1960- actor
Bixby, Jerome, 1923-1998, screenwriter
Crawford, Ellen (Actress), actor
Falling Sky Entertainment (Firm), production company
Grieve, Neil, editor of moving image work
Katt, William, actor
Peterson, Annika, actor
Riehle, Richard, 1948- actor
Schenkman, Richard, film producer, film director
Shahidi, Afshin, director of photography
Smith, David Lee, 1963 September-
Starz Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor
Stewart, Mark Hinton, composer (expression)
Thorpe, Alexis, 1980- actor
Todd, Tony, 1952- actor
Wilkinson, Eric D., film producer

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