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Hollywoodland / [videorecording]

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 100376 | Alliance AtlantisLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Montreal : Alliance Atlantis, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Widescreen [edition]Description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.D4 H655 2007

Contents:

Superhero is killed -- Real detective work -- Being noticed -- Next morning -- New take -- Leave the bow tie on -- Publicity stunt -- Behind the glamour -- On television -- Putting in a word -- Typecast -- Deceived -- Meaning of justice -- Deserves a statue -- Leonore Lemmon -- Straight arrow George -- It just gets buried -- Picture business -- Seeing the pieces -- End titles.

Production credits:

Director of photography, Jonathan Freeman ; editor, Michael Berenbaum ; music by Marcelo Zarvos ; production designer, Leslie McDonald ; costume designer, Julie Weiss.

Cast: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Lois Smith, Robin Tunney, Jeffrey DeMunn.Summary: On June 16, 1959, police detectives arrive at a Benedict Canyon home to find Superman dead, felled by a single gunshot to the head. LAPD calls it suicide, but Reeves' grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, isn't so sure. She hires private detective Louis Simo to validate her suspicions, centered on George's fiancée, aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon. Simo turns up suspects 2 and 3: Toni Mannix, aging trophy wife to MGM honcho Eddie Mannix, a tough little man with long-standing mob ties. George had been Toni's consort for years, and their breakup seriously wounded her. George Reeves wanted Clark Gable's career and instead got television stardom, becoming the idol of millions of children. Was he murdered, or just a victim of the sensitivities and insecurities of an actor who was never talented enough to be taken seriously?

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 1268 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050124140

Aspect ratio 1.85:1.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.

Special features: Feature commentary with director Allen Coulter [audio feature]; Re-creating old Hollywood [featurette] (7 min.); Behind the headlines [featurette] (8 min.); Hollywood then and now [featurette] (8 min.); Deleted scenes (5 min.).

MPAA rating: R; for language, some violence and sexual content.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.

In English or dubbed French; optional subtitles in English SDH, Spanish, or French.

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