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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #1052
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1974
"While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine (Carroll) meets a charming garbage man, Roop (James Earl Jones). But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love"--Container
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Special features: commentary soundtrack from 2003 featuring actors Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, filmmaker George Tillman Jr., and Dan Pine, son of screenwriters Lester Pine and Tina Pine; new conversation on the film between filmmaker Robert Townsend and programmer Ashley Clark; illustrated audio excerpts from a 1974 AFI Harold Lloyd master seminar featuring Carroll; new interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith on director John Berry; essay by Danielle A. Jackson
Director of photography, Gayne Rescher ; film editor, Louis San Andres ; music, Curtis Mayfield
James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu, David Kruger, Yvette Curtis, Eric Jones, Socorro Stephens, Adam Wade, Roxie Roker
MPAA rating: PG
DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby digital monaural
English dialogue
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)