Days of Heaven [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Days of Heaven [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Terrence Malick, Harold Schneider Cast: Richard Gere
Richard Gere
, Brooke Adams
Brooke Adams
, Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
Terrence Malick
Days of Heaven [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Days of Heaven [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Terrence Malick, Harold Schneider Cast: Richard Gere
Richard Gere
, Brooke Adams
Brooke Adams
, Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
Terrence Malick

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Overview

"Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) flees to Texas with his little sister Linda (Linda Manz) and girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) after fatally erupting at his boss. Along with other itinerant laborers, they work the harvest at a wealthy, ailing farmer's ranch, but the farmer (playwright Sam Shepard) falls in love with Abby, and, believing her to be Bill's sister, asks the three to stay on at his elysian spread. Seeing it as his one real chance to escape perpetual poverty, Bill urges Abby to marry the sick man. Marriage, however, has more restorative powers, and the farmer has more magnetism, than Bill had planned. ""Nobody's perfect,"" Linda impassively observes in one of her many voiceovers, after their brief paradise is erased by plagues of locusts, fire, and lethal jealousy."

Product Details

Release Date: 11/14/2023
UPC: 0715515055710
Original Release: 1978
Rating: PG
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Language: English
Time: 1:34:00
Sales rank: 8,355

Special Features

Audio commentary featuring weber, art director Jack Frisk, costume designer Patricia Norris, and casting director Dianne Crittenden; Audio interview with actor Richard Gere; Video interviews with Bailey, Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, and actor Sam Shepard; Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Adrian Martin and a chapter from director of photography Nestor Almendro's autobiography

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Richard Gere Bill
Brooke Adams Abby
Sam Shepard The Farmer
Linda Manz Linda
Robert J. Wilke Farm Foreman,Farm Foreman
Stuart Margolin Mill Foreman
Tim Scott Harvest Hand,Harvest Hand
Gene Bell Dancer
Jackie Shultis Linda's Friend
Doug Kershaw Fiddler,Composer
Richard Libertini Vaudeville Leader
Frenchie Lemond Vaudeville Wrestler
Sahbra Markus Vaudeville Dancer
Muriel Jolliffe Headmistress
John Wilkinson Preacher,Preacher
King Cole Farm Worker
Bob Wilson Accountant
Ennio Morricone Composer
Leo Kottke Composer

Technical Credits
Terrence Malick Director,Screenwriter
Jacob Brackman Executive Producer
Barry G. Thomas Sound Mixer,Special Effects
Mel Merrells Special Effects
Harold Schneider Producer,Producer,Director
Dianne Crittenden Casting
Robert Glass Jr. Sound/Sound Designer
Barry Thomas Sound Mixer
George Ronconi Sound Mixer
John Reitz Sound/Sound Designer
Robert Thirlwell Sound/Sound Designer
John Wilkinson Sound/Sound Designer
Peter Gregory Sound/Sound Designer
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