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A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Artistas Argentinos Asociados (film production company.), UCLA Film and Television Archive (restorationist (expression)), Film Noir Foundation
Other Authors: Leonardo, Sergio, 1921-1989 (Screenwriter), Cores, Carlos (Actor), Sandoval, Julia (Actor), Lambrinos, Vassili (Actor), Jasca, Adolfo, Younis, Ricardo (director of photography.), Piazzolla, Astor (composer (expression)), Muller, Eddie (Commentator), Peña, Fernando M. (Fernando Martín), 1968- (Commentator), Smith, Imogen Sara (Commentator), Smith, Steven C. (Commentator)
Format: Video DVD
Language:Spanish
Language Notes:In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Published: [Los Angeles, California] : Flicker Alley, [2021]
Edition:Blu-ray disc/DVD dual-format edition.
Subjects:
Journalists > Drama.
Immigrants > Hungary > Drama.
Impostors and imposture > Drama.
Jasca, Adolfo > Film adaptations.
Detective and mystery films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Description
Summary:A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
Item Description:Originally issued as part of deluxe Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.
Based on the novel by Adolfo Jasca.
Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Booklet (23 pages ; illustrated) with credits and a historical essay by Maria Elena de las Carreras in English inserted in container.
Special features include: Introduction by author, historian, and "noirchaeologist" Eddie Muller ; New In-Depth- Conversation with Argentine film archivist and historian Fernando Martín Peña ; audio commentary by film historian Imogen Sara Smith; profile of composer Astor Piazzolla by author and historian Steven C. Smith.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages ; 17 cm).
Format:DVD, NTSC.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Photography by Ricardo Younis ; music composed by Astor Piazzolla.
ISBN:1893967964
9781893967960