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The Journey of the Fifth Horse (Broadway Theatre Archive) |
starring: Susan Anspach, Michael Tolan, Charlotte Rae, Dustin Hoffman
directed by: Larry Arrick, Earl Dawson
directed by: Larry Arrick, Earl Dawson
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769796123
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769796125
Label: Kultur Video
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Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 14, 1966
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Editorial Review:
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Dustin Hoffman gives an amazing early performance in this drama about the "superfluous" man. Hoffman plays Zoditch, a reader in a publishing house, who has a humiliating job, a squalid apartment, and grandiose fantasies. He is assigned to read the diary of a dead man, whose story begins to weave with Zoditch's own life. The play makes good use of double casting, as Zoditch imagines people from his own life as characters in the diary. Though a few of the performances in this adapted play still feel stagy, the production is visually playful--at one point a hand winding an elegant pocket watch cross-fades into a hand churning a meat grinder. The play's message is satisfyingly complex; though Zoditch is routinely humiliated, he is far from blameless in the matter. This is a fascinating play, at once about the way people and events intertwine as well as the failure to connect. --Ali Davis
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The trailblazing genius that is Dustin Hoffman is hugely apparent in this, his first starring role on television. Originally produced Off-Broadway, Dustin Hoffman recreates his Obie Award-winning portrayal of Zoditch, a lonely, minor functionary in a publishing house. "Towering performances by Dustin Hoffman and Michael Tolan." --The New York Times. With Charlotte Rae, Michael Nolan, Susan Anspach, and William H. Bassett.
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- A pearl.If you like action car chase scenes and special effects - go away.
How about really good theater with Hamlet-like soliloquy in black & white? Quirky as all hell, but you will find yourself pointing into the empty air and asserting 'assets! . . . assets!'
I looked for a revival of this play for YEARS! There it was on DVD! Assets! The original play as was on public television way back then. Captures the old Russian psyche as well as anything. The faces will be startlingly ... Read More
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- "Lust is the devil's monastery on the road to hell."Winner of an Obie Award in 1966 for his role as Zoditch in this play by Ronald Ribman, Dustin Hoffman reprises his role here in his first television appearance, an adaptation for NET Playhouse, directed by Larry Arrick. Hoffman is the neurasthenic "first reader" of a small publishing house in Petersburg, Russia, at the turn of the century. Speaking with a high-pitched, nasal whine and with posture resembling a crane--shoulders stooped, head forward, stomach protruding--Zoditch/Hoffman is "an interruption ... Read More
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