7th heaven /
7th heaven : A classic romantic melodrama that centers on Chico, a lonely Parisian sewer worker who has but two dreams: to get promoted to street sweeper, and to find a blond girl to love him.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Silent film with music score and English intertitles; optional French and Spanish subtitles. |
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Beverly Hills, Calif. :
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
2008.
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| Summary: | 7th heaven : A classic romantic melodrama that centers on Chico, a lonely Parisian sewer worker who has but two dreams: to get promoted to street sweeper, and to find a blond girl to love him. The river : A naïve young man tries to sail his barge down a river which has been made impassable by a newly-built dam. While stranded, he meets Rosalee, the world-weary girlfriend of a dam construction worker who was convicted of murder. |
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| Item Description: | 7th heaven : From the stage play by Austin Strong. The river : From the novel by Tristram Tupper, adapted by Philip Klein and Dwight Cummings. 7th heaven originally released as a motion picture in 1927. Released as part of the set titled Murnau, Borzage and Fox. "We have brought this film to DVD using the best surviving source material available." - Note at start of each film. The river was also released under the title Backwash. Reconstruction of The river (side B of disc) based on surviving film, stills from the personal collection of the director, and the original film script. Videorecording] ; The river. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (119 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; region 1; NTSC; double-sided disc; Mono or stereo audio. |
| Awards: | Academy Awards, 1929: Best Director (Frank Borzage), Best Actress (Janet Gaynor), Best Adapted Screenplay (Benjamin Glazer) 7th Heaven was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1995. |
| Production Credits: | 7th heaven : Photographed by Ernest Palmer and J.A. Valentine ; edited and titled by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell ; film editor, Barney Wolf ; scenario by Benjamin Glazer. The river (reconstruction) : Photographed by Ernest Palmer ; film editor, Barney Wolf ; musical score, Maurice Baron and Ernö Rapée ; reconstruction presented by the Cinémathèque Suisse, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française and the Svenska Filminstitutet ; reconstruction and new titles, Hervé Dumont ; image and sound editing, Vincent de Claparède. |
| ISBN: | 6312440575 (set) 9786312440574 (set) |