A raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Paman-Doris production ; screen play by Lorraine Hansberry ; produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie
- Uniform Title
- Raisin in the sun (Motion picture : 1961)
- Published
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Edition
- Special edition.
- Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Additional Creators
- Petrie, Daniel, Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965, Rose, Philip, 1921-2011, Susskind, David, 1920-1987, Dee, Ruby, Poitier, Sidney, McNeil, Claudia, Sands, Diana, Dixon, Ivan, 1931-2008, Fiedler, John, 1925-2005, Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-2024, Perry, Stephen, 1952-, Fluellen, Joel, 1907-1990, Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, Glenn, Roy, 1915-1971, Rosenthal, Laurence, 1926-, Lawton, Charles, 1904-1965, Lyon, William A., 1903-1974, Weatherwax, Paul, Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965, Columbia Pictures Corporation, and Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Series
- Language Note
- In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- Summary
- Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781681435022
1681435020 - Sound Characteristics
- digital
optical
mono
Dolby digital - Video File Characteristics
- NTSC
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
DVD video
region 1 - Form of work
- Motion pictures
- Note
- Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry ; new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine ; episode of Theater talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis ; excerpt from Black theatre: the making of a movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. ; new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier revisited ; interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie ; trailer ; plus: an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine." - Creation/Production Credits Note
- Music, Laurence Rosenthal ; director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr. ; film editors, William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax.
- Participant/Performer Note
- Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn.
- Technical Details
- DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
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