Michael Redgrave
1) Pygmalion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
George Bernard Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique...
Series
Criterion collection volume 294
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A moving drama about an aging English schoolmaster who comes to grips with his personal and professional failures.
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM (1954): In Lewis Gilbert's memorable and gripping WWII saga, four Allied men struggle to survive in a lifeboat on the North Sea after their plane is shot down. One of the men carries secret documents that can save London from Nazi destruction. In a daring race against time, will their rescuers save them before Nazi U-boats, stormy seas, exposure, and enemy-mined waters kill them? ALBERT R.N. (1953): In this World War II...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Mr. Chips is a shy and proper classics professor who teaches at an English all-boys school. He falls in love with a London dance-hall girl and decides to marry her. The couple makes Brookfield Academy for Boys its home and brightens the school with their unlikely union.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Seemingly trapped within the spare yet surreal and terrifying confines of her husband's mansion, she begins to fear for her life when his sublimated hatred for women starts to bubble over and his strange obsession for violent deaths leads her to believe that she may be next.
16) Heidi
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
18) Uncle Vanya
Pub. Date
200u
Language
English
Description
A film of the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Checkhov's play Uncle Vanya directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusions of advancing age and the numbing boredom of provincial life in 1890's Russia, is here effortlessly performed by probably the most talented and prestigious cast ever assembled for this work. An outstanding work of significant historical importance....
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