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Academy Award Winners Susan Sarandon & Christopher Walken star in Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr.’s:
"An off beat delight. One of the best on Television" - Los Angeles Times
60 min/Color/Cat# 34818
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Under the Biltmore Clock
Sean Young in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s:
"One
of the examples of what 'American Playhouse' did best could be 'Under the
Biltmore Clock'." - The New York Times
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"A Look at the Past Season, The Best We Saw... Honorable Mention: 'Under
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Academy Award Winner Helen Hunt in Mary Austin’s:
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Mary MCDONNELL,
Richard THOMAS, Sada THOMPSON,George GRIZZARD, John GLOVER in: "3 _ Stars. Highly recommended. This touching story beautifully illustrates how the decisions we make regarding our own lives and relationships impacts the lives of those around us. Carries its powerful, emotional message simply, in a top-notch production that plays like a motion picture." - Video Librarian 60 min/Color/Cat#32019 |
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Willa CATHER,
Henrik IBSEN, Terrence MCNALLY, Arthur MILLER O’ Pioneers! "The American Playhouse attitude is a rare and wondrous thing." - The New York Times 118 min/Color/Cat#33271 |
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TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN "A remarkable film. Powerful enough to lift us off the ground ' it soars! " - The Wall Street Journal "A taughtly compelling and tremendously moving drama." - The New York Times To be black in America. To seek both salvation and understanding in the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem. From the celebrated James Baldwin novel. Stars Paul Winfield, Alfre Woodard. Color/100min/PBS/1984 |
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RAISIN IN THE SUN "Exceptional." - LA Times "****" - Chicago Sun Times "Don't miss it." - New York Magazine Danny Glover stars in this highly acclaimed adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's Award- winning play about the dreams and often unforgiving reality of a Black family's life in Chicago. (1988) Color/165min/CC/PBS |
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Run time: 100 minutes Color ISBN 1 56994 012 6 UPC 012233 1954 3 9 |
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SOLOMON
NORTHUP'S ODYSSEY "…an outstanding movie." - Miami News "This is a winning choice." - Booklist Solomon Northup would live a nightmare. He was kidnapped and carried off into slavery for twelve long years. A harrowing story, even more powerful because... this story is true. Stars Avery Brooks Color/115min/PBS/1984 |
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AMERICAN
PLAYHOUSE CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY Three outstanding titles : "Go Tell it on the Mountain," "A Raisin in the Sun," and "Solomon Northup's Odyssey"
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Run time: 115 minutes Color ISBN 1 56994 016 9 UPC 012233 3975 3 6 |
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Winner of the coveted Cine Golden Eagle award, this compelling film transports us into the world of a 1960's New York cafeteria and the isolated people who find one another. Bob Dishy stars as a European-born refugee, who is fascinated by a young woman (Zohra Lampert), a refugee and survivor of the holocaust. $29.00 |
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captivated its audiences as this Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece. This
five time ACE Award nominated production stars Academy Award-winning
actress Jessica Lange inhabiting one of literature’s most complex and
sensual ladies, Maggie the Cat. Joining her is Academy Award winner
Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn and, in her EMMY Award-winning performance,
Kim Stanley. |
Run time: 53 minutes Color Close Caption Suitable for family viewing ISBN 1 56994 206 4 UPC 0 12233 41223 9 |
"A
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American Playhouse at its best." Winner of the Cine Golden Eagle Award |
Run time: 144 minutes Color Close Caption Suitable for family viewing ISBN 1 56994 207 2 UPC 0 12233 38933 3 |
"Flickering,
effervescent, fiercely charged. A superb cast."
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Scrooge may be alive and well and living
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Run time: 56 minutes Color Suitable for family viewing ISBN 1 56994 220 X |
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