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Title:
A jury of her peers [videorecording] / produced, directed, edited by Sally Heckel ; research, script, Bette Fried.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Distributed by Women Make Movies,
Copyright Date:
199-?
Description:
1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Subject:
Farm life.--Drama.
Wife abuse--Drama.
Murder.--Drama.
Short films.
United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918--Drama.
Other Authors:
Heckel, Sally.
Fried, Bette.
De Lorian, Diane.
Lancaster, Dorothy.
Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948. Jury of her peers.
Women Make Movies (Firm)
Notes:
Videocassette release of a motion picture released in 1980. Diane de Lorian, Dorothy Lancaster.
Summary:
Dramatizes the short story by Susan Glaspell about the isolation and oppression of a farmwoman in rural America in 1900. A farmer is found murdered at a remote farmhouse, and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A motive for the murder gradually comes to light as evidence of the physical and emotional abuse of the suspect emerges.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)57466307
Locations:
SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

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