A matter of life and death
(DVD) 

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Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018].
Format
DVD
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color, black and white; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; folded to 19 x 12 cm). 
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Main Library - Media
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1 available
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Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018].
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
UPC
715515218610

Notes

General Note
Title from title frame.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1946.
General Note
Full screen.
General Note
Special features on disc 1: audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie; restoration demonstration ; on disc 2: new interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell's widow; new interview with film historian Craig Barron on the film's visual effects and production design; interview from 2009 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese; The colour merchant, a 1998 short film by Craig McCall featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
General Note
Program notes (1 folded sheet) with essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek inserted in container.
Creation/Production Credits
Music, Allan Gray ; photography, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Reginald Mills ; costumes, Hein Heckroth.
Participants/Performers
David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Abraham Sofaer, Robert Coote, Joan Maude, Kathleen Byron, Bonar Calleano, Richard Attenborough.
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
System Details
DVD format; NTSC, region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0; mono.
Language
In English with optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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