The verdict
(DVD)
Contributors
Published
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006].
Format
DVD
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
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Main Library - Media | DVD Verdict | Checked Out | April 3, 2024 |
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Published
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006].
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
UPC
024543372295
Notes
General Note
Based on the novel: The Verdict / by Barry Reed.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.
General Note
Special features (disc 1): Optional audio commentary by Lumet and Newman.
General Note
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.).
General Note
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Music, Johnny Mandel ; film editor, Peter Frank ; director of photography, Andrzej Bartkowiak.
Participants/Performers
Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Binns, Julie Bovasso.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD format, region 1; anamorphic widescreen format (1:85:1); Dolby Digital stereo (English)., Dolby Digital mono (French or Spanish).
Language
In English, dubbed French or Spanish; with optional English or Spanish subtitles. Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Other Subjects
Abogados -- Alcoholes consumo -- Teatro.
Adaptation -- Feature.
Effectiveness and validity of law -- Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Hombres -- Identidad -- Teatro.
Judgments, Criminal -- Drama.
Lawyers -- Alcohol use -- Drama.
Lawyers -- Drama.
Legal -- Feature.
Legal drama.
Male friendship -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Melodrama -- Feature.
Melodrama.
Men -- Identity -- Drama.
Patients -- Civil rights -- Drama.
Self-doubt -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.
Social problem -- Feature.
Adaptation -- Feature.
Effectiveness and validity of law -- Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Hombres -- Identidad -- Teatro.
Judgments, Criminal -- Drama.
Lawyers -- Alcohol use -- Drama.
Lawyers -- Drama.
Legal -- Feature.
Legal drama.
Male friendship -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Melodrama -- Feature.
Melodrama.
Men -- Identity -- Drama.
Patients -- Civil rights -- Drama.
Self-doubt -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.
Social problem -- Feature.