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The devil is a woman /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2914BD | The Criterion Collection | (disc)CC2908BD | The Criterion Collection | (boxed set)Language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 935.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1681434601
  • 9781681434728
  • 1681434725
  • 9781681434605
Uniform titles:
  • Devil is a woman (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Louÿs, Pierre, 1870-1925. Femme et le pantin
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .D48 2018
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Josef von Sternberg ; editor, Sam Winston ; music based on Rimsky-Korsakov's Spanish caprice and old Spanish melodies ; songs by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger ; costumes, Travis Banton.
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth, Cesar Romero, Don Alvarado, Tempe Piggott, Paco Moreno.Summary: A surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar recounts to the young Antonio Galvan the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez, warning his listener to gird himself against her charms.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050306818

Special feature: "If it isn't pain", a song removed from the film because it didn't pass code.

Title from title screen ; crew credits partially from boxed set's accompanying book.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

Based on The woman and the puppet / Pierre Louÿs.

Full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio).

Issued in a boxed set: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood, which includes an accompanying book (80 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).

Blu-ray; region A; LPCM 1.0.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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