Straight time [videorecording] / Warner Bros. ; First Artists presents a Sweetwall production ; produced by Stanley Beck and Tim Zinnemann ; screenplay by Alvin Sargent, Jeffrey Boam, Edward Bunker ; directed by Ulu Grosbard. - Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007] - 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Based on the novel "No beast so fierce" by Edward Bunker. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.

Director of photography, Owen Roizman ; editors, Sam O'Steen, Randy Roberts ; music, David Shire ; costume designer, Bernie Pollack ; production designer, Stephen B. Grimes Director of photography, Owen Roizman ; editors, Sam O'Steen, Randy Roberts ; music, David Shire ; costume designer, Bernie Pollack ; production designer, Stephen B. Grimes

Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, Rita Taggart, Kathy Bates, Sandy Baron, Jacob Busey

A paroled burglar tries to get a job and keep on the straight-and-narrow. His hard-core parole officer has different ideas and sends him back to jail. When he gets out again, he goes after the parole officer, steals his car, and returns to crime.


DVD.


Ex-convicts--Drama
Recidivists--Drama
Feature films

791.4372 / STR 2007