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Les misérables
Title
Les misérables [videorecording] / 1935 version: 20th Century Pictures ; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck ; written by W.P. Lipscomb ; directed by Richard Boleslawski. 1952 version: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; produced by Fred Kohlmar ; written by Richard Murphy ; directed by Lewis Milestone.
Published
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from container.
From the novel by Victor Hugo.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1935 and 1952.
Side A: The 1935 version ; Side B: The 1952 version.
1935 version: Cinematography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Barbara McLean ; costume designer, Omar Kiam.
1952 version: Cinematography, Joseph LaShelle ; editor, Hugh S. Fowler ; music, Alex North ; costume designers, Dorothy Jeakins, Charles Le Maire.
1935 version: English; French or Spanish subtitles. Closed-captioned.
1952 version: English; dubbed Spanish dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles. Closed-captioned.
Summary
Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
Variant and related titles
Miserables (Motion picture : 1935)
Miserables (Motion picture : 1952)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 26, 2007
Series
Credits
1935 version: Cinematography, Gregg Toland ; editor, Barbara McLean ; costume designer, Omar Kiam.
1952 version: Cinematography, Joseph LaShelle ; editor, Hugh S. Fowler ; music, Alex North ; costume designers, Dorothy Jeakins, Charles Le Maire.
Performers
1935 version, cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, Florence Eldridge, John Beal, Frances Drake, Ferdinand Gottschalk.
1952 version, cast: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester.
System details note
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, double-sided.
Audience
Not rated.
Contents
Misérables / directed by Richard Boleslawski (1935, 110 min.)
Misérables / directed by Lewis Milestone (1962, 106 min.).
Videorecording number
2242579 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Subjects
Genre/Form
Melodrama.
Feature films.
Police films.
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