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Shadows
- Title
- Shadows / produced by Maurice McEndree ; directed by John Cassavetes.
- Publication
- [United States] : Castle Hill Productions ; [Long Beach, CA] : Pioneer Entertainment (USA), [1998], ©1998.
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white; 12 in.
- Summary
- John Cassavetes\u0027 first film tells a gripping story of racism set against a New York background in the 1950s. Lelia, a light-skinned black woman living in New York with her two brothers, has an affair with a white man. But when her lover meets one of Lelia\u0027s brothers and discovers she is black, a painful and emotional eruption occurs.
- Uniform Title
- Shadows (Motion picture : 1959)
- Subjects
- Note
- "Presented by Jean Shepherd\u0027s Night People."
- "Pioneer special edition."
- The original version of this film (1958) was entirely improvised; the present version, from 1959, contains about 45 minutes of new scripted material that Cassavetes combined with 40 minutes of footage retained from the original.
- Laserdisc release of the motion picture originally produced in 1959.
- Container includes essay by Ray Carney, list of new scenes incorporated into the present version, credits, and chapter index.
- Credits (note)
- Associate producer, Seymour Cassel ; cameraman, Erich Kollmar ; producer/editor, Maurice McEndree ; music, Charles Mingus.
- Performer (note)
- Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Herd, Anthony Ray, Dennis Sallas, Tom Allen, Rupert Crosse.
- Audience (note)
- MPAA rating: PG.
- System Details (note)
- Laser optical extended play format (CLV).
- Awards (note)
- Critics Prize, Venice Film Festival. Listed on National Film Registry (1993).
- LCCN
- 1302353086
- OCLC
- ocm39232549
- SCSB-3669537
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries