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Title:

Barbarians at the gate [videorecording] / HBO Pictures presents in association with Columbia Pictures a Rastar production ; produced by Ray Stark ; screenplay by Larry Gelbart ; directed by Glenn Jordan.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

HBO Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

RJR Nabisco (Firm)--Drama.
Leveraged buyouts--Drama.
Consolidation and merger of corporations--Drama.
Conglomerate corporations--Drama.
Comedy films.

Other Authors:

Stark, Ray.
Gelbart, Larry.
Jordan, Glenn, 1936-
Garner, James.
Pryce, Jonathan.
Riegert, Peter.
Cassidy, Joanna, 1944-
Burrough, Bryan, 1961- Barbarians at the gate.
HBO Pictures.
Columbia Pictures.
Rastar Productions, Inc.
HBO Video (Firm)

Notes:

James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy. Based on the book: Barbarians at the gate / by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. Originally broadcast on HBO as a TV movie in 1993. Anamorphic widescreen format.

Summary:

In the 1980s, everyone was making the big bucks and F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, wants to make his fortune. He decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company in order to escape the tyranny of the stockholders. Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis, but afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer, he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen. Kravis mounts his own buy-out campaign, which leads to a battle for control of Nabisco.

ISBN:

9780783118628
0783118627

UPC:

026359083525

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)