DVD
Deadly drifter / Blood tide [videorecording].
Deadly drifter: Off-beat, satirical road movie chronicling two decades in the life of a traveling mercenary who philosophizes about American culture and hopes to find himself while carrying out the orders of his enigmatic employer, who gives him assignments via bowls of vegetable soup.
Blood tide: Searching for his sister, a lonely man and his wife come to a beautiful, mysterious Greek island. Obsessed with their quest, they are unaware that lurking on this Mediterranean paradise dwells a cunning mythical beast desiring to consume human flesh.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 172 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: La Crosse, WI : Platinum Disc Corp., ©2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Two feature films on one DVD: Deadly drifter, and Blood tide. Double-sided disc. Deadly drifter on side A ; Blood tide on side B. Both films originally produced as motion pictures in 1982. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Deadly drifter (ca. 90 min.) / [presented by] Osprey Ltd. ; directed by Eli Hollander ; screenplay by Ronald Sukenick and Eli Hollander, based on novel by Ronald Sukenick -- Blood tide (ca. 82 min.) / [presented by] Donald Langdon for Raptage ; screenplay by Richard Jeffries & Nico Mastorakis ; produced by Nico Mastorakis & Donald Langdon ; directed by Richard Jeffries. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Deadly drifter: Cinematography by Robert Ball ; film editing by Eli Hollander ; original music by David Cope ; production design by Antony Chapman. Blood tide: Director of photography, Aris Stavrou ; supervising editor, Robert Leighton ; music by Jerry Moseley ; art director, Aurelio Crugnola ; costume director, Moss Mabry ; co-producer & creative consultant, Brian Trenchard Smith ; executive producer, John D. Schofield. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Deadly drifter: Peter Coyote, Danny Glover, O-Lan Shepard. Blood tide: James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove, Lydia Cornell, Deborah Shelton. |
| Target Audience Note: | Deadly drifter, rated 18 (not suitable under 18 years) ; Blood tide, rated 13 (not suitable under 13 years) -- Container. |
| System Details Note: | DVD ; full screen presentation. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Travelers > Drama. Drifters > Drama. Counterculture > United States > Drama. Animals, Mythical > Greece > Drama. |
| Genre: | Road films. Horror films. Feature films. |
