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Title:

La poison / directed and written by Sacha Guitry ; produced by Paul Wagner.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

2 videodiscs (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Murder--France--Drama.
Married people--France--Drama.
Defense (Criminal procedure)--France--Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films--France.
Crime films.

Other Authors:

Guitry, Sacha, 1885-1957, screenwriter. screenwriter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Titles:

Poison (Motion picture : 1951)

Notes:

Special features: new interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On life on-screen: miseries and splendour of a monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon. Booklet contains an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for guitry by François Truffaut. 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951. Michel Simon, Germaine Reuver, Jean Debucourt, Marcelle Arnold, Pauline Carton, Jacques Varennes.

Summary:

After thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 891.

ISBN:

168143346X
9781681433462

UPC:

715515202411

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)