The films of Michael Powell
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Published
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009].
Format
DVD
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
UPC
043396259195

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General Note
Special features (Age of consent): Director Martin Scorsese on Age of consent; commentary with historian Kent Jones; making Age of consent; Helen Mirren: a conversation with Cora; Down Under with Ron and Valerie Taylor.
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Special features (A matter of life and death): Director Martin Scorsese on A matter of life and death; commentary by historian Ian Christie.
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"A matter of life and death, originally released in an edited version in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven, is here presented for the first time, complete and restored."
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Age of consent originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
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A matter of life and death also known as: Stairway to heaven.
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A matter of life and death originally released as a motion picture in 1946.
General Note
Age of consent from the novel by Norman Lindsay.
Participants/Performers
Introduced by Martin Scorsese and Helen Mirren.
Participants/Performers
A matter of life and death: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey.
Participants/Performers
Age of consent: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran.
Description
A matter of life and death: British flyer Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. He falls in love with June, an American radio operator.
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Age of consent: Based on the life of controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Lindsay is a jaded painter who heads Down Under looking for a way to revitalize his creative soul. His self-imposed exile is interrupted by Cora, an uninhibited young woman on her own journey of self-discovery.
Target Audience
Not rated (Age of consent).
Target Audience
MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements (A matter of life and death).
System Details
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) and anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby Digital, NTSC.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
These DVD discs are copy protected.
Language
English dialogue, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

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