A raisin in the sun

Petrie, Daniel, (film director.). Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 (screenwriter.). Rose, Philip, 1921-2011 (film producer.). Susskind, David, 1920-1987 (film producer.). Poitier, Sidney, (actor.). McNeil, Claudia, (actor.). Dee, Ruby, (actor.). Sands, Diana, (actor.). Dixon, Ivan, 1931-2008 (actor.). Fiedler, John, 1925-2005 (actor.). Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936- (actor.). Perry, Stephen, 1952- (actor.). Fluellen, Joel, 1907-1990 (actor.). Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 (actor.). Glenn, Roy, 1915-1971 (actor.). Lawton, Charles, 1904-1965 (director of photography.). Lyon, William A., 1903-1974 (editor of moving image work.). Weatherwax, Paul, (editor of moving image work.). Rosenthal, Laurence, 1926- (composer (expression)). Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 Motion picture adaptation of (work): Raisin in the sun. (Added Author). Paman-Doris (Firm), (production company.). Columbia Pictures Corporation, (presenter.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn. (Cast).

Summary:

Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681435022
ISBN: 1681435020
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title and credits from screen. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio). Special features: disc one. New, restored 4K digital transfer ; interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry ; A dream realized: new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine ; Poitier's Walter Lee: new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier revisited ; interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie ; trailer -- disc two. episode of Theater talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis ; excerpt from Black theatre: the making of a movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. -- in booklet: an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine."
Formatted Contents Note:	disc one. [Feature film and supplements] -- disc two. [Supplements].
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr. ; film editors, William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax ; music, Laurence Rosenthal.
Participant or Performer Note:	Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn.
System Details Note:	DVD; region 1 NTSC; 16:9 wide screen presentation (1.85:1); Dolby digital mono; black & white.
Language Note:	In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).