Product Details

• Actors: Chester Himes
• Directors: Bill Barnett
• Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Full length, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: History On Video
• DVD Release Date: July 1, 2005
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000B51SIW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,500 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars very basic trot through Himes' life, October 19, 2005

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This review is from: Chester Himes/The Long Climb (DVD)

I bought this on spec hoping it might be interesting. It isn't. It's about 40 minutes long, and is a couple of talking heads running through an outline of Chester Himes' life. The odd photo is shown but no interviews with Himes himself - or with anyone who knew him - or with incisive scholars or analysts. It feels like some ultra-cheap educational leftover, and I can't imagine anyone who knew enough about Himes to find it on Amazon learning anything useful or interesting from it. Oh well.