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Stephen Crane's The blue hotel [digital videodisc] / Monterey Video ; a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities ; a production of Learning in Focus ; a film by Jan Kadar ; story adapted by Harry Mark Petrakis ; produced by Ozzie Brown ; directed by Jan Kadar.

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Thousand Oaks, CA : Monterey Video : Distributed by Monterey Media, Inc., c2005.

Frontier and pioneer life -- Drama.

United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama.

American short story collection.

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Scene 1. Blue hotel -- Scene 2. Card game -- Scene 3. Crazy Swede -- Scene 4. Deadly game -- Scene 5. Stranger -- Scene 6. Truth.

Nebraska in the 1880's is bleak, lonely, and far from what the Wild West is purported to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of the blue hotel represent the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince the Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him; the story inevitably ends in tragedy. However, who is responsible? The negative Swede? Or the cliquish hotel guests?

MPAA rating: Not rated.

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