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1) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. In Bed Among the Lentils, a vicar's wife discovers a semblance of happiness with an Indian shop owner. In A Chip in the Sugar, a man's life begins to unravel when he discovers his aging mother has rekindled an old flame. In A Lady of Letters, a busybody
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Death of a salesman: a social drama about an ageing travelling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide.
Private conversations: takes a candid look at the filming of Arthur Miller's play, Death of a salesman. Includes conversations about the sets, lighting, camera placement and performances.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Christmas party: Created for the 1953 holiday season, this represents another side (or sides) of Gleason as he portrays four delightful characters. Forgot to register: Ralph and Ed are hard at work campaigning for their favorite candidate. Champagne and cavier: Ralph "puts on the dog" as he schemes to get a promotion by inviting his boss to dinner. Finger man: While driving his bus, Ralph helps nab a wounded criminal in the middle of the day. His...
Publisher
CBS Worldwide Inc
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In Time enough at last, Burgess Meredith plays a bank teller and avid reader who is the lone survivor of an H-Bomb attack and finally finds the time to read. In The monsters are due on Maple Street, hysteria grips a small community as residents suspect a power failure has been caused by invaders from outer space disguised as humans. In Nightmare at 20,000 feet, William Shatner sees a gremlin on the wing of his plane. In The odyssey of flight 33, air...
9) Scarecrow
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a 17th century Massachusetts town, a scarecrow is magically transformed into a man and charged with the mission of destroying true love.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era. Each episode concludes with an after word by Erich Segal containing biographical information on Eugene O'Neill.
13) Follow the river
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lola: A romantic drama that casts Bronson in an atypical role as a middle-aged American writer named Scott who is visiting London. There he meets a young British girl named Lola who lies about her age in order to capture the older man's affections. U.S. Marshal: Pursuit: Charles Bronson is a soldier who goes AWOL by blasting his way out of camp. Having turned on his fellow combatants, Bronson knows that he's committed the ultimate sin and will...
15) Coming through
Publisher
BFS Ltd
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of the great love affair of writer D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley, who caused a major scandal when they eloped in 1912, because Frieda abandoned her husband and three children to be with Lawrence.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A production by the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Trepleff, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions.
18) Years of minutes
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Collects segments from the television show 60 minutes by Andy Rooney spanning twenty-five years of the show.
19) Twelfth night
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job-- any job-- was everything.
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