Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Samurai
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| Other authors / contributors: | Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973, film director.
Delon, Alain, 1935- actor.
Périer, François, actor.
Delon, Nathalie, 1941- actor.
Chateau, René.
Rosier, Cathy, actor.
Boisrond, Michel, 1921-2002, actor.
Janus Films.
Société nouvelle Prodis.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781681433820
1681433826
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| Sound characteristics: | digital optical mono Dolby Digital 2.0
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file DVD video region 1
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| Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.
Special features: Interviews from 2005 with Jean-Pierre Melville historians Rui Nogueira and Ginette Vincendeau ; collection of excerpts from archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Cathy Rosier, Nathalie Delon and François Périer ; "Melville-Delon: d'honneur et de nuit" short documentary about the friendship of the director and actor ; theatrical trailer ; booklet with essay by film scholar David Thomson, a tribute by filmmaker John Woo, and an excerpt from Rui Nogueira's book Melville on Melville.
Directeur de la photographie, Henri Decaë ; montage, Monique Bennot, Yo Maurette ; musique de François de Roubaix.
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Caty Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital monaural.
In French with optional English subtitles.
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| Summary: | Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
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| Standard no.: | 715515206716
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| Publisher's no.: | CC2833D The Criterion Collection
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