Ladies in retirement
(DVD)

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Subjects

LC Subjects
Dark comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Mansions -- England -- Drama.
Mentally ill women -- England -- Drama.
Thames River (England) -- Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings.
Women household employees -- England -- Drama.

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Published
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home entertainment, [2010].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
043396368439

Notes

General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941.
General Note
"Based on the play by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy produced in New York and London."
Creation/Production Credits
Music, Ernst Toch ; musical director, M.W. Stoloff ; production designed by David Hall ; photographed by George Barnes ; art direction, Lionel Banks ; film editor, Al Clark ; costumes designed by Walter Plunkett. [Assistant director, George Rhein].
Participants/Performers
Ida Lupino (Ellen Creed) and Louis Hayward (Albert Feather), Evelyn Keyes (Lucy), Elsa Lanchester (Emily Creed), Edith Barrett (Louisa Creed), Isobel Elsom (Leonora Fiske), Emma Dunn (Sister Theresa), Clyde Cook (Bates), Queenie Leonard (Agatha).
Description
A psychopathic companion-housekeeper strangles her employer, a retired actress, to prevent the institutionalization of the her two mentally ill sisters. Set in a lonely mansion on the Thames estuary.
System Details
DVD.
Local note
DVD

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Fort, G., Denham, R., Cowan, L., Miller, G., Vidor, C., Toch, E., Stoloff, M., Hall, D., Barnes, G., Banks, L., Clark, A., Plunkett, W., Lupino, I., Hayward, L., Keyes, E., Lanchester, E., Barrett, E., Elsom, I., Dunn, E., Cook, C., & Percy, E. (2010). Ladies in retirement . Sony Pictures Home entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Garrett, Fort et al.. 2010. Ladies in Retirement. Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Garrett, Fort et al.. Ladies in Retirement Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home entertainment, 2010.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Fort, G., Denham, R., Cowan, L., Miller, G., Vidor, C., Toch, E. and Stoloff, M. et al (2010). Ladies in retirement. Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home entertainment.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Fort, Garrett,, et al. Ladies in Retirement Sony Pictures Home entertainment, 2010.

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