Vernel Bagneris
2) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Arthur Parker says, 'I want to live in a world where the songs come true.' In that world, bank tellers would eagerly hand out sacks of Depression-era dough to him, every cloud would have a silver lining, and Arthur's loveless marriage to Joan would give way to boop-boop-a-doop bliss with passionate Eileen. [A] razzle-dazzler in which lip-synched 1930s songs contrast with characters' lives, Herbert Ross directs Dennis Potter's movie adaptation of...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A couple find out the hard way they are made for each other. Colette, a Louisiana bank teller marries mechanic Paul because he is good looking and a great dancer. Paul has no ambition, but Colette has and she leaves him for California. He follows, life is hard, they return. She becomes pregnant, he nearly dies fishing for shrimp, they fight, they divorce, they reunite.