Serpico/The untouchables/Chinatown [videorecording]
2008
Videos and DVDs
Three classic crime movies. 'Serpico' (1973) is based on a true story and revolves around an undercover police officer, Frank Serpico (Al Pacino), who discovers that corruption is rife soon after joining the force. Refusing the payoffs which have become accepted practice, the nonconformist Serpico finds himself spurned and harrassed by his fellow officers. When the strain of performing his job honestly finally becomes too much, Serpico turns first to the disinterested police commission and finally to the New York Times to make his voice heard, and is forced to give evidence in the resulting investigation. However, with the cops as well as the crooks now out for his blood, Serpico discovers that integrity comes at a very high price. In 'The Untouchables' (1987), Kevin Costner stars as Eliot Ness, an idealistic Treasury official who vows to bring an end to Al Capone's (Robert De Niro) corrupt hold over Prohibition-era Chicago. To this end, Ness puts together an elite team of law-enforcement officers (played by Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith), and begins making bold strikes at Capone's bootlegging operation. Nevertheless, Capone's empire continues to thrive, and Ness realises that he must try a different approach. Finally, in 'Chinatown' (1974), private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up dead at the bottom of a reservoir. Realising he has been used, Gittes confronts Mulwray's widow Evelyn (Faye Dunway), a woman who seems to have plenty of secrets of her own, not least her ambiguous relationship with her father Noah Cross (John Huston).
Main title:
Serpico/The untouchables/Chinatown [videorecording] / director, Sidney Lumet; director, Brian De Palma; director, Roman Polanski; producer, Martin Bregman; producer, Robert Evans; writer, Waldo Salt; writer, Norman Wexler; writer, David Mamet; writer, Robert Towne.
Author:
Lumet, Sidney, directorDe Palma, Brian, directorPolanski, Roman, directorTheodorakis, Mikis, musicMorricone, Ennio, musicGoldsmith, Jerry, musicPacino, Al, actorRoberts, Tony, actorRandolph, John, actor
Imprint:
Paramount Home Entertainment, 2008.
Collation:
3 videodiscs (364 min.) : col.
Notes:
Region 2, 3 disc(s), Interactive menus, Scene access, Ratio (1:1.78 (16:9) widescreen), Other Ratio 1:2.35 CinemaScope, Enhanced for WideScreen TV, Languages (English), Sound (Dolby Digital), Other languages German, French, Italian, Spanish, Other Language Sound Dolby Digital 5.1, Subtitles (Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian), Subtitles for hard of hearing (English), Bonus footage, Trailers, Other documentaries ('Chinatown: The Beginning and the End', 'Chinatown: Filming', 'Chinatown: The Legacy').Made in 1987.Credits: music, Mikis Theodorakis; music, Ennio Morricone; music, Jerry Goldsmith.DVDN.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe, Allan Rich, F. Murray Abraham, M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Weller, Hank Garrett, Kenneth McMillan, Lewis Stradlen, James Tolkan, Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, Richard Bradford, Patricia Clarkson, Billy Drago, Brad Sullivan, Charles Martin Smith, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Bruce Glover, Darell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Burt Young, Roman Polanski.
Audience:
BBFC code: 18.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
EnglishMultiple languages
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BRN:
1805495
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