7th heaven

Publication/Creation:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2008]

Resource Type:

Video or Visual Material

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

7th heaven / William Fox presents ; Frank Borzage production ; directed by Frank Borzage

Related/Included Titles:

Frank Borzage's The River.
River.
Murnau, Borzage and Fox.

Variant Titles:

Seventh heaven

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Fox, William, 1879-1952
Borzage, Frank
Gaynor, Janet
Duncan, Mary, 1895-1993
Farrell, Charles, 1900-1990
Gran, Albert, 1862-1932
Butler, David, 1894-1979
Strong, Austin, 1881-1952
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Silent films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918--Drama
Sanitation workers--Drama
River boats--Drama
Man-woman relationships--Drama
Paris (France)--History--1914-1918--Drama
Rocky Mountains--History--19th century--Drama

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Special features: Side A - commentary by film historians Robert Birchard and Anthony Slide ; 7th Heaven screenplay ; soundtrack notes ; still gallery -- Side B - 'The river' (produced and directed by Frank Borzage) reconstruction ; optional subtitles in English and French ; still gallery.

Summary:

7th heaven : A classic romantic melodrama that centers on Chico, a lonely Parisian sewer worker who has but two dreams: to get promoted to street sweeper, and to find a blonde girl to love him.
The river : A naïve young man tries to sail his barge down a river which has been made impassable by a newly-built dam. While stranded, he meets Rosalee, the world-weary girlfriend of a dam construction worker who was convicted of murder.

Language:

English

Language Note:

Silent film with English intertitles with musical score, optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English.

Physical Type/Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Technical Note:

DVD; region 1; NTSC; mono or stereo sounds.

General Note:

7th heaven originally released as a motion picture in 1927.
7th heaven : From the stage play by Austin Strong.
The river : From the novel by Tristram Tupper, adapted by Philip Klein and Dwight Cummings.
Released as part of the set titled Murnau, Borzage and Fox.
The river was also released under the title Backwash.
Reconstruction of The river (side B of disc) based on surviving film, stills from the personal collection of the director, and the original film script.

Participant/Performer Note:

7th heaven : Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran, David Butler.
The river (reconstruction) : Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Margaret Mann, Ivan Linow.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

7th heaven : Photographed by Ernest Palmer and J.A. Valentine ; edited and titled by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell ; film editor, Barney Wolf ; scenario by Benjamin Glazer.
The river (reconstruction) : Photographed by Ernest Palmer ; editor, Barney Wolf ; musical score, Maurice Baron and Ernö Rapée ; reconstruction presented by the Cinémathèque Suisse, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française and the Svenska Filminstitutet ; reconstruction and new titles, Hervé Dumont ; image and sound editing, Vincent de Claparède.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990022915420302486

ISBN:

6312440575 (set)
9786312440574 (set)

OCLC Number:

295258213

Other Identifiers:

Universal Product Code: 024543562207

Barcode:

10002320915