Archive for the ‘Romance’ Category

MiddleMarch

Monday, October 6th, 2008
 
MiddleMarch
Call Number: DVD00005
by Anthony Page; Andrew Davies; Juliet Aubrey; Robert Hardy; Douglas Hodge; Michael Hordern, Sir.; Peter Jeffrey; Patrick Malahide; Trevyn McDowell; Rufus Sewell; BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm); George Eliot;
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005, ©1994.
Notes: One DVD disc (420 min.); DVD release of the original 1994 BBC television broadcast ; episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on the novel by George Eliot;  Special features: Middlemarch– a reader’s guide: 40 minute featurette on the book.
Summary: A dramatization of George Eliot’s novel describing life in a provincial town on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
OCLC #: 58846406
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Friday, September 12th, 2008
 
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Call Number: DVD00014
by Frank Capra; Robert Riskin; Gene Havlick; Howard Jackson; Clarence Budington Kelland; Gary Cooper; Jean Arthur; George Bancroft; Lionel Stander; Douglass Dumbrille; Raymond Walburn; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936 (115 mins); Based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Special features include: a featurette: Frank Capra Jr. remembers “Mr. Deeds goes to town”, theatrical trailers, vintage advertising, talent files; Interactive menus include: scene selection, language & subtitle selection, audio commentary track with Frank Capra Jr.; Nominated for five 1937 Academy Awards;
Summary: Longfellow Deeds, a small-town poet, inherits $20 million from his uncle and wants to give it away to needy people. Petty moochers, greedy relatives, conniving lawyers and big executives, who all want a piece of the pie, attempt to have Deeds declared incompetent.
OCLC #: 43802354
Also: This item also available in VHS format at VHS00015
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection