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The thin blue line
Thin blue line (Motion picture)
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Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innoc...
Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
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- Creator
- IFC Films ; an American Playhouse presentation ; an Errol Morris film ; executive producer, Lindsay Law ; produced by Mark Lipson ; directed by Errol Morris
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Morris, Errol, film director
- Law, Lindsay, film producer
- Lipson, Mark, film producer
- Adams, Randall Dale, commentator
- Harris, David, 1960-2004, commentator
- Rose, Gus, commentator
- Johnson, Jackie, commentator
- Touchton, Marshall, commentator
- Czapsky, Stefan, director of photography
- Chappell, Robert, 1952- director of photography
- Bafaloukos, Ted, production designer
- Barnes, Paul, 1951- editor of moving image work
- Glass, Philip, composer (expression)
- Riesman, Michael, conductor
- Oppenheimer, Joshua, 1974- interviewee (expression)
- Schaffer, Randy, interviewee (expression)
- Musser, Charles, writer of supplementary textual content
- IFC Films
- American Playhouse Theatrical Films
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Publication
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- Director-approved DVD special edition
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
- ©2015
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital 2.0
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- ISBNs
- 9781604659719, 1604659718
- OCLC
- ocn903552930
- Credits
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- Commentators, Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton, Dale Holt, Sam Kittrell, Hootie Nelson, Dennis Johnson, Floyd Jackson, Edith James, Dennis White, Don Metcalfe, Emily Miller, R.L. Miller, Elba Carr, Michael Randell, Melvyn Carson Bruder ; re-enactments, Adam Goldfine, Derek Horton, Ron Thornhill, Marianne Leone, Amanda Carplo, Michael Nicoll, Michael Cirilla, Phyllis Rodgers
- Directors of photography, Stefan Czapsky, Robert Chappell ; production designer, Ted Bafaloukos ; editor, Paul Barnes ; original music composed by Philip Glass ; music conducted by Michael Riesman
- Wide screen (1.78:1).
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.
- Special features: Errol Morris (interview with the director); Joshua Oppenheimer (interview with filmmaker Oppenheimer about The thin blue line); Today: "close up" (excerpt from the March 22, 1989 episode of NBC's Today show features an interview with the newly freed Randall Adams, his attorney Randy Schaffer, and director Errol Morris). Insert includes an essay by film scholar Charles Musser.
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; 1.78:1 aspect ratio; 2.0 Dolby Digital Surround.
- English language soundtrack with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- Special features: Errol Morris (interview) -- Joshua Oppenheimer (interview) -- Today : "close up" (Today show interview with Randall Adams, attorney Randy Schaffer, and director Errol Morris)