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Bleak house / BBC, WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; directed by Justin Chadwick.
LIBRA DVD 011 368
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Film adaptations.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Orphans.
- Young women.
- Guardian and ward.
- Illegitimate children.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Drama.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- England--London.
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Drama.
- Social conditions.
- Illegitimate children--England--London--Drama.
- Guardian and ward--England--London--Drama.
- Young women--England--London--Drama.
- Orphans--England--Drama.
- Inheritance and succession--England--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Made-for-TV movies.
- Television mini-series.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (approximately 465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, [2006]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man.
- Participant:
- Anna Maxwell Martin, Denis Lawson, Carey Mulligan, Gillian Anderson, Tom Georgeson, Charles Dance, Lilo Baur, Pauline Collins, Charlie Brooks, Burn Gorman, Harry Eden, Tony Haygarth, Alistair McGowan, Sean McGinley, Patrick Kennedy, John Lynch, Nathaniel Parker, Anne Reid, Natalie Press, Liza Tarbuck, Roberta Taylor, Ian Richardson, Johnny Vegas, Timothy West, Warren Clarke, Joanna David, Richard Harrington, Richard Griffiths, Bryan Dick, Matthew Kelly, Alun Armstrong, Catherine Tate, Robert Pugh, Phil Davis, Michael Smiley, Hugo Speer, Tim Dantay, Dermot Crowley, Sheila Hancock.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Kiernan McGuigan ; editor, Paul Knight (episodes 1-9), Jason Krasucki (episodes 10-15) ; music, John Lunn.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
- Contains all 15 episodes from the 2005 television mini-series.
- Episodes 10-15 directed by Susanna White.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1419828614
- OCLC:
- 63148785
- Publisher Number:
- 794051250827
- E2508 Warner Home Video
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