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Title:

Ms. 45 / Drafthouse Films and Rochelle Films present ; a Navaron Film production ; directed by Abel Ferrara ; screenplay by Nicholas St. John ; produced by Navaron Films.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher:

Drafthouse Films,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Mute persons--Drama.
Rape victims--Drama.
Murderers--Drama.
Revenge--Drama.
Feature films.
Crime films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Ferrara, Abel, 1951- film director.
St. John, Nicholas, screenwriter.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Zoë Tamerlis Lund, Peter Yellen, Jack Thibeau, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto.

Summary:

In Manhattan, a mute seamstress Thana, is a timid woman who works in the fashion industry and spends most of her time at home. One night, she is raped in an alley near her, and before she arrives at her house, she is raped a second time by another criminal. But this time, she reacts and kills her assaulter. Now a disturbed Thana loses her sanity and uses the rapist's pistol to begin killing men on the streets of New York.

Series:

Drafthouse films ; no. 16.

UPC:

025192219610

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)