The ballad of the sad café
(2005, original release: 1991)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/BALLAD

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/BALLAD Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [2005]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
0780029178, 037429198629
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from container

Miss Amelia runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her secretly brewed hooch. Her eccentric existence is threatned with the arrival of a dwarf who claims kinship and the reappearance of her rejected husband

Originally released as a motion picture in 1991

Based on the novel by Carson McCullersand the play by Edward Albee

Special features: New high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by Simon Callow

Director of photography, Walter Lassally ; editor, Andrew Marcus ; music, Richard Robbins

Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger, Cork Hubbert, Austin Pendleton, Beth Dixon

MPAA rating: Not rated

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround

Closed-captioned

Additional Credits