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Title

  • Badlands

Summary

  • This provocative study of two characters numbingly alienated from normal life is loosely based on the 1950's killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. Set in 1959, Kit and Holly are driving through South Dakota on an odyssey of meaningless murder.

Names

  • Malick, Terrence, 1943- direction, production, writing.
  • Sheen, Martin, cast.
  • Spacek, Sissy, cast.
  • Pressman-Williams (Firm)
  • Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
  • Warner Home Video (Firm)
  • LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Warner Bros., 1973 ; United States : Warner Home Video, [1984]

Headings

  • -  Spree murderers--United States--Drama
  • -  Murder--United States--Drama
  • -  Alienation (Social psychology)--United States--Drama
  • -  Teenage girls--United States--Drama
  • -  Young men--United States--Drama
  • -  Middle West--Drama
  • -  Badlands--Montana--Drama

Genre

  • Crime films
  • Fiction films
  • Feature films
  • Videodiscs

Notes

  • -  LP43811 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Pressman-Williams, Badlands, Ltd.; 24Mar74 (in notice: 1973); LP43811.
  • -  Copyright notices on videodisc jacket: Pressman-Williams-Badlands, Ltd. ; 1973 (program content); Warner Bros., Inc. ; 1973 (jacket design).
  • -  Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter.
  • -  Executive producer, Edward R. Pressman ; camera, Brian Probyn, Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner ; editing, Robert Estrin ; associate editor, William Weber ; art direction, Jack Fisk ; music, George Tipton.
  • -  Reissue date is copyright date from videodisc jacket.
  • -  Summary from videodisc jacket.
  • -  On videodisc jacket: 11135LV.
  • -  LC also holds a 35 mm. viewing print in the Copyright Collection. Videodisc and viewing print have not been compared for content.
  • -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
  • -  Sources used: videodisc jacket; Copyright catalog, motion pictures, July-December, 1974.
  • -  Not viewed.

Medium

  • viewing copy 1 videodisc of 1 (optical) (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DAA 0090 (viewing copy)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96524346

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sheen, Martin, Cast, Sissy Spacek, Pressman-Williams, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video, and Lc Purchase Collection. Badlands. produceds by Malick, Terrence, Directionuction, Writing [United States: Warner Bros., ; United States: Warner Home Video, 1984, 1984] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96524346/.

APA citation style:

Sheen, M., Spacek, S., Pressman-Williams, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video & Lc Purchase Collection. (1984) Badlands. Malick, T., prod [United States: Warner Bros., ; United States: Warner Home Video, 1984] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96524346/.

MLA citation style:

Sheen, Martin, Cast, et al. Badlands. prod by Malick, Terrence, Directionuction, Writing [United States: Warner Bros., ; United States: Warner Home Video, 1984, 1984] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/96524346/>.