Goodnight And Good Luck (DVD)

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Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of US broadcast. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television news pioneer Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, the ground-breaking Murrow, and his dedicated staff, headed by his producers Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'.

In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on regardless and their tenaciousness eventually pays off when McCarthy is brought before the US Senate.

In black & white.


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Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of US broadcast. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television news pioneer Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, the ground-breaking Murrow, and his dedicated staff, headed by his producers Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'.

In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on regardless and their tenaciousness eventually pays off when McCarthy is brought before the US Senate.

In black & white.

Product Features

  • Interactive Menus
  • Enhanced WS tv
  • Bonus Footage
  • Trailers
  • Commentary: George Clooney (Writer/Director) and Grant Heslov (Writer)
  • Other Documentary: 'Good Night, and Good Luck' companion piece

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First rate, highly intelligent acting, and a preview of the problems TV have caused up until today.

Product Details

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Studio

Lions Gate Home Entertainment

Release date

June 2006

Availability

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Movie released

2005

Actors

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Dimensions

192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)

Format

DVD

Running time

1 hour, 30 minutes

Region encoding

Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players. Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.

Audio format

Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS

Video format

Widescreen 16:9 (1.78:1)

Languages

value

Age restriction

PGL

Categories

LSN

XJ7-F64-8PE-4



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