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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Errol Morris |
| Genre: |
Education/General Interest |
| Subgenre: |
World History/Culture |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
096898600132 |
| Release Date: |
1999 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 31min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 31min
Release Company: Lions Gate Home Entertainment (July 22, 2003)
UPC: 031398836322 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 31min
Release Company: Lions Gate Home Entertainment (July 22, 2003)
UPC: 031398836131 |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/29/1999, p.C4, Kevin Thomas): "...As a chronicler of bizarre Americana without peer, Morris seems to have found the ideal subject in Leuchter....MR. DEATH, which is shot through with one dark absurdity after another, emerges as a cautionary tale if ever there was one..." |
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| Details: |
The story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a man whose complete belief in himself as an expert in anything he devoted his time to ended up ruining his professional career. Growing up in the American prison system, where his father was an employee, Leuchter literally stumbled into his first position as the individual who perfected the electric chair, making capital punishment run more smoothly for the officials, as well as victims. This improvement convinced other prisons that he could make the same adjustments to their chosen outlets: lethal injections, gas chambers, and gallows. Soon, Leuchter was the country's predominant expert on the maintaining and designing of execution equipment. The trial of one Ernst Zundel would change all of this, however. Charged in Canada with the publishing of historical lies in the form of a pamphlet which firmly refuted the reality of the Holocaust and proposed that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were an invention by Jewish sympathizers, Zundel needed the support of an expert who... |
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