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Hamlet (DVD)
Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Richard Briers, Brian Blessed, …
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Discovery Miles 2 710
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Director and star Kenneth Branagh brings another Shakespearean
adaptation to the screen. Hamlet (Branagh), Prince of Denmark, vows
revenge when informed by the ghost of his murdered father (Brian
Blessed) that the present king Claudius (Derek Jacobi) was
responsible. Spurning the romantic advances of his sweetheart
Ophelia (Kate Winslet), Hamlet attempts to open the eyes of his
mother Gertrude (Julie Christie), whom Claudius has now wed.
However, Hamlet's procrastination when it comes to killing Claudius
costs more lives.
Period action adventure set in the late 19th century, directed by
Hugh Hudson ('Chariots of Fire'). Christopher Lambert stars as
Tarzan of Greystoke, who as an infant was orphaned on the west
coast of Africa following a shipwreck, and was rescued and brought
up by a family of highly-evolved apes. Twenty years later, a
Belgian hunter, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot (Ian Holm), encounters
the man who has now become Tarzan, Lord of the Apes when the
ape-man rescues him from a terrible death. When the Captaine finds
evidence to prove that Tarzan is the direct descendant of the Earl
of Greystoke, he takes it upon himself to return the man to
civilization. But Edwardian England is very different to the wilds
of the African jungle, and Tarzan finds himself torn between two
irreconcilable worlds...
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Mansfield Park (DVD)
Anna Massey, Bernard Hepton, Angela Pleasence, Nicholas Farrell, Sylvestra le Touzel, …
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1986 BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen. When Fanny Price
(Sylvestra Le Touzel) is sent to live with her rich aunt and
cousins by her debt-ridden mother, she struggles to adjust to her
new aristocratic lifestyle. Her 'superior' relatives constantly
ignore her, and only her cousin, Edmund (Nicholas Farrell), shows
Fanny any interest. However, Fanny's charm and wit win her many
potential suitors, and before long she has to decide whether she
wishes to wed for love or status.
British miniseries starring Ian McDiarmid, covering the 37 days
between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Britain's
declaration of war against Germany in 1914. The episodes comprise:
'One Month in Summer', 'One Week in July' and 'One Long Weekend'.
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Playing Away (DVD)
Norman Beaton, Robert Urquhart, Helen Lindsay, Nicholas Farrell, Brian Bovell, …
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Discovery Miles 2 900
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Friendships and hostilities vie for attention when a West Indian
cricket team from Brixton plays a team from a Suffolk village.
Invited to participate in their 'Third World Week' celebrations, a
cricket team made up of West Indians from Brixton arrives in a
small, upmarket Suffolk village to play the locals. Cross-cultural
relations soon take a knock, however, as the members of the rival
teams choose to settle their own internal issues, before moving on
to those of the opposition during the match itself.
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Vond-Mages (Paperback)
Nicholas Farrell, James Farrell
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R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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Often described as 'the father of realism', Henrik Ibsen was a
pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as
George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently
performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Included in
this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The
Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic
drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman. Ibsen's A Doll's
House is relocated to 1879 India in Tanika Gupta's Audio Drama
Award-winning dramatisation, while the provocative and scandalous
Ghosts is adapted by Richard Eyre, with the cast of his Olivier
Award-winning Almeida Theatre production. Also featured are vibrant
dramatisations of Hedda Gabler, whose desperate heroine is trapped
in a suffocating marriage; The Lady from the Sea, about a woman
torn between security and passion; and An Enemy of the People, in
which a whistleblower reveals an inconvenient truth and is vilified
for it. The casts of these stunning dramas include David Threlfall,
Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville
and Harriet Walter.
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The Jane Austen Collection (DVD)
Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor, …
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A collection of six BBC dramatisations of Jane Austen classics.
Adapted by Andrew Davies after his success with his work on George
Elliot's 'Middlemarch' for television, 'Pride and Prejudice' was
the BBC's flagship drama in the schedule for autumn 1995. The story
revolves around the arrival of the wealthy Mr Darcy (Colin Firth)
and party and the excitement he causes amongst the five daughters
of the Bennett family. In 'Persuasion' (1995), Anne Elliott (Amanda
Root) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain
Wentworth's (Ciaran Hinds) proposal of marriage. When he returns
from sea they meet, but instead of finding romance are kept apart
through a series of misunderstandings. Anne is being pursued by her
cousin, Mr Elliott (Samuel West), while Captain Wentworth is now
regarded as a very eligible bachelor. 'Northanger Abbey' (1986)
stars Peter Firth and Robert Hardy. The story follows the
adventures of Catherine Moorland (Katharine Schlesinger), who is
invited by the romantic Henry Tilney to stay at the Abbey - and
finds it to be shrouded in mystery and intrigue. In 'Sense and
Sensibility' (1980), sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Irene
Richard and Tracey Childs) lose their family fortune to spiteful
relatives, and are forced to seek out suitable husbands in order to
survive. While Marianne falls for the heartless John Willoughby
(Peter Woodward), Elinor finds herself attracted to Edward Ferrars
(Bosco Hogan) - who is himself betrothed to Lucy Steele (Julia
Chambers). In 'Mansfield Park' (1983), Fanny Price (Sylvestra Le
Touzel) struggles to adjust to her new aristrocratic lifestyle when
she is sent by her debt-ridden mother to live with her rich aunt
and cousins. Her 'superior' relatives constantly ignore her, and
only her cousin Edmund (Nicholas Farrell) shows Fanny any interest.
However, Fanny's charm and wit eventually win her many potential
suitors, and before long she has to decide whether she wishes to
wed for love or for status. Doran Godwin stars in 'Emma' (1972),
which tells the stroy of the eponymous heroine whose chief joy in
life is organising the lives of the friends with whom she surrounds
herself. She is soon the apple of Mr Knightly (John Carson)'s eye,
an older family friend who has watched her grow and advised her on
many things in life.
British miniseries starring Ian McDiarmid, covering the 37 days
between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Britain's
declaration of war against Germany in 1914. The episodes comprise:
'One Month in Summer', 'One Week in July' and 'One Long Weekend'.
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