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Island in the sun

Title: Island in the sun / directed by Robert Rossen.
Publication: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005, ©1957.

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Description

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman.

Series Statement

Cinema Classics Collection

Uniform Title

Island in the sun (Motion picture)
Cinema classics collection.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Originally released as a motion picture in Cinemascope in 1957.
Based on the novel of the same title by Alec Waugh.
Special features: audio commentary by film writer and historian John Stanley; documentary "Dorothy Dandridge: Little Girl Lost" as seen on Biography on the A & E Network; original theatrical trailer.

Credits (note)

Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck ; screenwriter, Alfred Hayes ; director of photography, F.A. Young; film editor, Reginald Beck; music, Malcolm Arnold ; 20th Century-Fox by arrangement with Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Inc. presents a CinemaScope production.

System Details (note)

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 4.0 surround, mono.

Language (note)

Closed captioned; audio in English 4.0 surround, Spanish or French mono; optional subtitles in English French or Spanish.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-2079

LCCN

024543221876
024543221913

OCLC

63145961

Title

Island in the sun / directed by Robert Rossen.

Imprint

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video

Series

Cinema Classics Collection

Cinema classics collection.

Performer

Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie, Harry Belafonte.

System Details

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 4.0 surround, mono.

Credits

Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck ; screenwriter, Alfred Hayes ; director of photography, F.A. Young; film editor, Reginald Beck; music, Malcolm Arnold ; 20th Century-Fox by arrangement with Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Inc. presents a CinemaScope production.

Language

Closed captioned; audio in English 4.0 surround, Spanish or French mono; optional subtitles in English French or Spanish.

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Added Author

Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979, film producer.

Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985, screenwriter.

Rossen, Robert, 1908-1966, film director.

Mason, James, 1909-1984, actor.

Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013, actor.

Dandridge, Dorothy, 1922-1965, actor.

Collins, Joan, 1933- actor.

Rennie, Michael, actor.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, actor.

Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981. Island in the sun.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Fox Video (Firm)

Other Standard Identifier

024543221876

024543221913

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-2079

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