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Title Le samourai [videorecording] = The samurai / distribution, Rene Chateau ; Prodis ; Raymond Borderie et Eug`ene Lepicier presentent film de Jean-Pierre Melville.

Imprint [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.4372 Sa46 2005    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Series The Criterion collection ; 306
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 306.
System Details DVD.
Language French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Cast Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon, Caty Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond.
Credits Director of photography, Henri Decae ; editing, Monique Bennot and Yo Maurette ; music, Francois de Roubaix ; DVD producer, Abbey Lustgarten.
Note Series numbering from container spine.
Originally released as a French motion picture in 1967.
"Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label.
Recorded in Dolby digital mono.
"1.85:1 aspect ratio"--Container.
Summary Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Note Special features: new video interviews with Jean-Pierre Melville historians Rui Nogueira and Ginette Vincendeau; collection of excerpts from archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Cathy Rosier, Nathalie Delon and Francois Perier; theatrical trailer; a new essay by film scholar David Thomson and reprinted tribute by filmmaker John Woo.
Subject Assassins -- Drama.
Murder -- Investigation -- Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
Added Author Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.
Delon, Alain, 1935-
Perier, Francois.
Delon, Nathalie, 1941-
Chateau, Rene, 1906-1970.
Borderie, R. (Raymond), 1897-1982.
Lepicier, Eug`ene.
Rosier, Cathy.
Boisrond, Michel, 1921-2002.
Decae, Henri.
Roubaix, Francois de.
Nogueira, Rui, 1938-
Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948-
Thomson, David, 1941-
Woo, John, 1948-
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Societe nouvelle Prodis.
Added Title Samurai
ISBN 0780030184
9780780030183
Standard No. 037429208526
Music No. SAM150 Criterion Collection
Standard No. NZ1 12083496
NZ1 12431854

 
    
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