Something the Lord made

Resource Information

The work Something the Lord made represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Something the Lord made

Statement of responsibility

HBO Films presents a Cort/Madden production, a Joseph Sargent film ; producer, Julian Krainin and Mike Drake ; written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell ; directed by Joseph Sargent

Contributor

• Young, Christopher, 1957-
• HBO Video (Firm)
• Caswell, Robert
• Krainin, Julian
• Masterson, Mary Stuart, 1966-
• McCabe, Katie
• Morgan, Donald M., (Donald Maxwell), 1932-
• Mos Def, (Rapper)
• Richman, Alan
• Sargent, Joseph, 1925-2014
• Sedgwick, Kyra
• Silverman, Peter, (Television writer)
• Union, Gabrielle
• Wever, Merritt

Actor

• Mos Def, (Rapper)
• Union, Gabrielle
• Richman, Alan
• Sedgwick, Kyra
• Masterson, Mary Stuart, 1966-
• Wever, Merritt

Director of photography

• Morgan, Donald M., (Donald Maxwell), 1932-

Film director

• Sargent, Joseph, 1925-2014

Film producer

• Krainin, Julian

Screenwriter

• Caswell, Robert
• Silverman, Peter, (Television writer)

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Heart -- Surgery | History -- 20th century -- Drama
• Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964 -- Drama
• Made-for-TV movies
• Racism -- Drama
• Tetralogy of Fallot -- Drama
• Thomas, Vivien, 1910-1985 -- Drama

Genre

• Made-for-TV movies
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Feature films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear them apart

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Director of photography, Donald M. Morgan ; editor, Michel Brown ; music composer, Christopher Young ; costume designer, Karyn Wagner ; production designer, Vincent Peranio

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English, French, or Spanish dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Alan Richman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever, Clayton LeBouef, Charles Dutton, Mary Stuart Masterson

Runtime

110

Target audience

general

Technique

live action