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The thin red line [videorecording (DVD)].

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c1999.

Guadacanal (Solomon Islands), Battle of, 1942-1943 -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Drama.

Criterion collection 536.

Video Difference legacy collection.

9781604653199 (2010 Criterion Collection ed.)

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 (or 2) videodisc(s) (170 min. + extras) : Dolby Surround, stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm + 1 booklet.

Based upon the novel by James Jones.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.

Special features : Interactive menus, scene selection ; Melanesian songs.

Special features (2010 Criterion Collection Director-Approved 2-DVD special ed.): Disc 1: New audio commentary by Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill ; original theatrical trailer ; Disc 2: Interviews with several of the film's actors ; new interview with casting director ; fourteen minutes of outtakes from the film ; World War II newsreels from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands ; Melanesian chants ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 reprint by James Jones.

"7 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture"--Container.

Widescreen format with 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

In English with optional English and Spanish subtitles. Criterion Collection editions have English (SDH) subtitles only.

Closed-captioned.

Music, Hans Zimmer ; producers, Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill ; screenwriter/director, Terrence Malick.

Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte and John C. Reilly.

"After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones's 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema's finest actors - Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, Milk), Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides, Affliction), Elias Koteas (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt) among them - The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema's greatest war films."--Container (Criterion Collection ed.)

May be available in Blu-Ray at some branches (not requestable).

Films for the hearing impaired.

Anti-war films.

Jones, James, 1921-1977. Thin red line.

Malick, Terrence, 1943-

Penn, Sean, 1960-

Caviezel, Jim, 1968-

Clooney, George.

Cusack, John, 1966-

Harrelson, Woody.

Koteas, Elias, 1961-

Reilly, John C., 1965-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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