Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's lost in the stars / American Express Films Inc. and the Ely Landau Organization Inc. present the American Film Theatre ; screenplay by Alfred Hayes ; producer, Ely Landau ; director, Daniel Mann.
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
1 videocassette (97 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Brock Peters (Stephen Kumalo), Melba Moore (Irina), Raymond St. Jacques (John Kumalo), Clifton Davis (Absalom), Paul Rogers (James Jarvis), Paula Kelly (Rose). Based on the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton. VHS release of the 1974 motion picture.
Contents:
Features the songs The hills of Ixopo ; Thousands of miles ; Train to Johannesburg ; Search ; The little gray house ; Who'll buy? ; Trouble man ; Murder in Parkwold ; Fear ; Lost in the stars ; Wild justice ; O Tixo, Tixo, help me ; Stay well ; Cry, the beloved country ; Big mole ; Chapel scene ; A bird of passage ; Four o'clock.
Summary:
Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his pregnant sweetheart, and his heroic determination to tell the truth set the stage for a tragic climax.
Series:
American Film Theatre. Collection 3
OCLC:
(OCoLC)54482457
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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