Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Film est intitulé La poison
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| Other uniform titles: | Poison (Motion picture : 1951).
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| Other authors / contributors: | Guitry, Sacha, 1885-1957, film director, screenwriter.
Wagner, Paul (Film producer), film producer.
Bachelet, Jean, 1894-1977, director of photography.
Guy, Louis, 1916-1991, composer (expression)
Lamy, Raymond, editor of moving image work.
Dumesnil, Robert, production designer.
Simon, Michel, 1895-1975, actor.
Reuver, Germaine, 1885-1953, actor.
Debucourt, Jean, 1894-1958, actor.
Arnold, Marcelle, 1917- actor.
Carton, Pauline, 1884-1974, actor.
Varennes, Jacques, 1894-1958, actor.
Duvaleix, Jean Albert, 1893-1962, actor.
Bever, Georges, actor.
Gaumont (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| ISBN: | 9781681433462
168143346X
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| Physical medium: | DVD video 4 3/4 in.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital optical mono
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| Projection characteristics: | fullscreen
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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: | Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Special features: new interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On life on-screen: miseries and splendour of a monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon. Booklet contains an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for Guitry by François Truffaut.
Music and songs, Louiguy ; cinematography, Jean Bachelet ; edited by Raymond Lamy ; production design by Robert Dumesnil.
Michel Simon, Germaine Reuver, Jean Debucourt, Marcelle Arnold, Pauline Carton, Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jean Duvaleix, Georges Bever.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); monoaural.
French dialogue with English subtitles.
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| Summary: | After thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.
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| Standard no.: | 715515202411
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| Publisher's no.: | CC2796DDVD The Criterion Collection
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