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Call Number: DVD00640

by Lewis Gilbert; Bill Naughton; Michael Caine; Shelley Winters; Millicent Martin; Julia Foster; Jane Asher; Shirley-Anne Field; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Hollywood, CA : Paramount, ©2000.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1965 (113 min). Based on the play by Bill Naughton. Special features: Interactive menus ; scene selection ; theatrical trailer. Videodisc release of the 1965 motion picture.

Summary: An unrepentant ladies’ man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

OCLC #: 46381459

Added: October 14, 2010

Call Number: VHS00956

by Lewis Gilbert; Michael Caine; Julie Walters; HGV Video Productions.; Columbia Pictures.; Acorn Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video ; Ajax, Ontario : HGV Video Productions, 1989, ©1983

Notes: Originally released in 1983 (111 mins.); Nominated for three Oscars and four Golden Globes in 1984.

Summary: Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed into a free spirit, Frank is forced to confront his own life.

OCLC #: 319845828