| Description |
1 videodisc (530 min.) : si., sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD (double-sided). |
| Contents |
Side A: Jamaica Inn -- Sabotage. Side B: The 39 steps -- Easy virtue. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Jamaica Inn: Charles Laughton, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara. |
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Sabotage: Sylvia Sydney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester, William Dewhurst. |
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The 39 steps: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft. |
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Easy virtue: Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Ian Hunter. |
| Credits |
Jamaica Inn: Mayflower Pictures presents ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; producer, Erich Pommer ; screenplay, Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison ; music, Eric Fenby ; editor, Robert Hamer ; director of photography, Harry Stradling. |
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Sabotage: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation presents ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Charles Bennett ; music, Louis Levy ; art director, O. Werndorff ; editor, Charles Frend ; director of photography, Bernard Knowles. |
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The 39 steps: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation presents ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Charles Bennett ; music, Louis Levy ; art director, O. Werndorff ; editor, D.N. Twist ; director of photography, Bernard Knowles. |
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Easy virtue: CM Woolf, Michael Balcon, and Gainsborough Pictures present ; director, Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Eliot Stannard ; art director, Clifford Pember ; director of photography, Claude McDonnell. |
| Note |
Easy virtue is a silent film with title cards. |
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Jamaica Inn was based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Sabotage was based on the novel Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. The 39 steps was based on the novel by John Buchan. Easy virtue was adapted from the play by Noel Coward. |
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Jamaica Inn was originally produced as a motion picture in 1939. Sabotage was originally produced as a motion picture in 1936. The 39 steps was originally produced as a motion picture in 1935. Easy virtue was originally produced as a motion picture in 1928. |
| Summary |
Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area. |
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Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. |
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The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. |
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Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts to overcome the tarnished reputation that accompanies it. |
| Subject |
Orphans -- Drama.
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Pirates -- Drama.
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Sabotage -- Drama.
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Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Department. -- Drama.
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Espionage, British -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Divorce -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical films.
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Mystery films.
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Suspense films.
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Silent films.
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| Added Author |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.
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Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962.
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Banks, Leslie, 1890-1952.
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Williams, Emlyn, 1905-1987.
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Newton, Robert, 1905-1956.
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O'Hara, Maureen, 1920-2015
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Sidney, Sylvia.
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Homolka, Oscar, 1898-1978.
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Loder, John, 1898-1988.
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Tester, Desmond, 1919-2002.
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Donat, Robert, 1905-1958.
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Carroll, Madeleine, 1906-1987.
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Mannheim, Lucie, 1895-1976.
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Tearle, Godfrey, 1884-1953.
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Ashcroft, Peggy, 1907-1991.
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Jeans, Isabel, 1891-1985.
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Irvine, Robin, 1901-1933.
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Dyall, Franklin.
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Williams, Eric Bransby.
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Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975.
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Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
Jamaica Inn.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Secret agent.
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Buchan, John, 1875-1940.
Thirty-nine steps.
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
Easy virtue.
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Mayflower Pictures, Inc.
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Gaumont British Picture Corp.
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Gainsborough Studios.
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Digiview Productions.
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| Added Title |
Jamaica Inn.
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Sabotage.
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39 steps.
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Easy virtue.
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| Standard No. |
842718000879 |
| Music No. |
MV-12C Digiview Entertainment |
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