East Baton Rouge Parish Library

A raisin in the sun, Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Paman-Doris production ; screen play by Lorraine Hansberry ; produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie

Title and credits from screenBased on the play by Lorraine HansberryOriginally released as a motion picture in 1961Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio)Special features: 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 ; 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."

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr. ; film editors, William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax ; music, Laurence Rosenthal

other

Blu-ray special edition.

9781681435015

videodisc

Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn

1 videodisc (128 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)1048419262on1048419262OCoLC

Blu-ray; region A; 16:9 presentation; LPCM 1.0 soundtrack; requires Blu-ray player

715515220613

CC2946BD -- The Criterion Collection

Blu-ray disc