| Description |
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical monaural rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion picture |
| Series |
Criterion collection
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| System Details |
DVD; region 1. |
| Language |
Italian dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Note |
Originally released in 1949. |
| Cast |
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano. |
| Summary |
During planting season in Northern Italy2s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence. |
| Credits |
Director, Giuseppe De Santis. |
| Subject |
Rice farming -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Agricultural laborers -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Melodramas (Motion pictures)
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Fiction films.
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DVD-Video discs.
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Foreign films, Italian.
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| Added Author |
De Santis, Giuseppe, film director.
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Gassman, Vittorio, actor.
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Dowling, Doris, 1921-2004, actor.
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Mangano, Silvana, 1930-1989, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515165211 |
| Music No. |
CC2567DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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