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Title British cinema collection.

Publication Info. [La Crosse, Wis.] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, [2012]
©2012

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 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD BRITISH CINEMA COLLECTION    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (397 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD.
Note Title from container.
Cast The inheritance: Meredith Baxter, Tom Conti, Cari Shayne, Thomas Gibson.
Note The inheritance is based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.
The inheritance originally broadcast on television in 1997.
Audience The inheritance: not rated.
Summary The inheritance: "From Louisa May Alcott comes this passionate story of forbidden love and dangerous rivalry in 19th century New England. Beautiful orphan Edith Adelon lives as a paid companion to the wealthy Hamilton family's daughter, Amy. When Edith falls in love with an eligible bachelor -- visiting to court a Hamilton cousin -- she struggles to make sense of her position within the household"--Container.
Cast Love among the ruins: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Richard Pearson, Joan Sims, Leigh Lawson.
Note Love among the ruins originally broadcast on television in 1975.
Audience Love among the ruins: not rated.
Summary Love among the ruins: "Past lovers Arthur (Laurence Olivier) and Jessica (Katharine Hepburn) are reunited when Jessica is charged with breach of promise by a much younger man and Arthur serves as her lawyer. But when Arthur reveals his devotion to her, he is met with a problem -- she doesn't seem to remember him"--Container.
Cast Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge.
Note Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is based on the novel.
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
Audience Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: not rated.
Summary Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: "Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh) is a Russian noblewoman who becomes tangled in a torrid affair with a dashing young man. As rumors begin to spread, the ensuing scandal threatens to destroy her upstanding image, her family and her life"--Container.
Cast Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives: Jean Marc Barr, Miranda Richardson, Richard E. Grant, Anna Friel, Michael Gough, Jason Isaacs, Cecile Pallas.
Note Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives is based on the novel.
Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Audience Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives: MPAA rating: R for some sexuality/nudity and violence.
Summary Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives: "During the Napoleonic Wars, a handsome French officer is captured in battle and brought to a prisoner of war camp in Scotland. Once there, adventure awaits when he falls in love with a beautiful local woman, befriends the prison camp's British major, and discovers his long-lost grandfather living just down the road"--Container.
Contents Louisa May Alcott's The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / produced by Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth ; a Cosgrove Meurer Productions ; Televast ; Alliance Atlantis -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / an ABC Circle film ; produced by Allan Davis ; written by James Costigan ; directed by George Cukor -- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1948; 111 min.) / 20th Century Fox ; London Film Productions present ; Alexander Korda's production ; screen play by Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan and Julien Duvivier ; directed by Julien Duvivier. -- Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives (1998; 90 min.) / a Miramax Films presents ; in association with Majestic Films ; a Little Bird production for BBC Films and in association with Tatfilm and Compagnie des Phares et Balises ; director, Harry Hook ; producers, Jonathan Cavendish, James Mitchell ; writer, Allan Cubitt ; co-producers, Martha O'Neill ... [et al.].
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Television adaptations.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Film adaptations.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Film adaptations.
Genre/Form Feature films -- Great Britain.
Made-for-TV-movies -- United States.
Made-for-TV movies -- Great Britain.
Added Author Roth, Bobby, 1950-
Self, Edwin.
Nation, Maria.
Baxter, Meredith, 1947-
Conti, Tom.
Shayne, Cari, 1972-
Television adaptation of (work): Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Inheritance.
Cukor, George, 1899-1983.
Davis, Allan, 1913-2001.
Costigan, James, 1928-2007.
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003.
Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.
Blakely, Colin.
Duvivier, Julien, 1896-1967.
Korda, Alexander, Sir, 1893-1956.
Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987.
Morgan, Guy.
Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967.
Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983.
Moore, Kieron, 1924-2007.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
Hook, Harry.
Cavendish, Jonathan.
Mitchell, James, 1948-
Cubitt, Allan.
O'Neill, Martha.
Barr, Jean-Marc, 1960-
Richardson, Miranda.
Grant, Richard E., 1957-
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. St. Ives.
Cosgrove/Meurer Productions.
Televast (Firm)
Alliance Atlantis (Firm)
ABC Circle Films.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
London Film Productions.
Miramax Films.
Majestic Films (Firm)
Little Bird (Firm)
BBC Films.
Tatfilm (Firm)
Compagnie des Phares et Balises.
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
Added Title Anna Karenina (Motion picture : 1948)
Louisa May Alcott's The inheritance.
Inheritance.
Love among the ruins.
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Anna Karenina.
Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives.
St. Ives.
Standard No. 096009115449
Music No. 11544 Echo Bridge
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