AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Kirk Douglas (1991) DVD-R

Starring Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Patricia Neal, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall
Print: Color
Runtime: 60 min
Genre: Documentary

Receiving the 19th American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, Kirk Douglas celebrates a distinguished forty-five years as one of Hollywood’s finest actors and most vibrant and intriguing personalities. This award, however, is no nostalgic look back upon work completed, but a deserved breather in a career that continues unabated. Douglas has only recently returned from a prolonged location shoot in the Pyrenees Mountains filming VERAZ, which will be released later this year. He has published two acclaimed and successful books, and is toiling away on the third. And SPARTACUS (1960), which he produced and starred in, will soon be seen again on the big screen in its original Super Technirama 70 splendor. This is not a man who is ready for the rocking chair.