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221) Mike Nichols: a life
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 673 pages, 32 unnumberered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind without parallel: while still in his 20's, he was half of a lucrative hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four hit Broadway plays, picking up the Best Director Tony for three of them, and by his mid-30's the first two films he directed, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate, were the highest-grossing movies of 1966 and 1967 respectively, and...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (1,363 min.) : sound, black and white with some color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books (128 pages : chiefly black and white photographs ; 31 cm)
Language
English
Description
Sunrise: A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme.
City girl: A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Lazybones: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing...
223) On the waterfront
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
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