Dressed to kill / Filmways Pictures, Inc. ; Samuel Z. Arkoff presents a George Litto production ; a Brian De Palma film ; produced by George Litto ; written and directed by Brian De Palma.

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"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Dressed to kill (Motion picture : 1980)
Criterion collection ; 770.
Corporate Authors: Filmways Pictures (Production company)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Film distributor)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: De Palma, Brian (Screenwriter, Film director)
Litto, George (Film producer)
Arkoff, Samuel Z., 1918-2001 (Presenter)
Caine, Michael (Actor)
Dickinson, Angie (Actor)
Allen, Nancy, 1950 June 24- (Actor)
Gordon, Keith, 1961- (Actor)
Franz, Dennis (Actor)
Bode, Ralf, 1941-2001 (director of photography.)
Greenberg, Gerald B. (Editor of moving image work)
Donaggio, Pino (composer (expression))
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
English dialogue with optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf or hard of hearing.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Edition:Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 770.
Subjects:
Psychiatrists > Drama.
Women > Crimes against > Drama.
Murder > Investigation > Drama.
Murder > Investigation.
Psychiatrists.
Women > Crimes against.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Genre:
Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 folded leaflet.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980.
Special features: new conversation between Brian de Palma and filmmaker Noah Baumbach; new interviews with actress Nancy Allen, producer George Litto, composer Pino Donaggio, shower-scene body-double Victoria Lynn Johnson and poster photographic art director Stephen Sayadian; "making of" documentary; new profile of cinematographer Ralf Bode; interview with actor-director Keith Gordon from 2001; pieces from 2001 about the different versions of the film and the cuts made to avoid an X rating; storyboards gallery; trailer.
"New, restored 4K digital transfer of Brian De Palma's preferred unrated version, supervised by the director"--Container.
Accompanied by folded leaflet with an essay "The power of two" written by Michael Koreskey, staff writer at the Criterion Collection.
Call Number:PN1995.9.H6 D747 2015 VideoDVD
ISBN:1681430371
9781681430379
Credits:Director of photography, Ralf Bode ; editor, Jerry Greenberg ; original music, Pino Donaggio.
System Details:DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Cast:
Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies.