Wessex tales /
Hardy Thomas
Wessex tales / Thomas Hardy - Delhi : Rohan Book Company, 2004. - ill. ; 18 cm. - Popular illustrated classics .
Disc 1: The withered arm / adapted by Rhys Adrian ; directed by Desmond Davis ; and starring Billie Whitelaw ; Fellow townsmen / adapted by Douglas Livingstone ; directed by Barry Davis ; starring Jane Asher ; A tragedy of two ambitions / adapted by Dennis Potter ; directed by Michael Tuchner ; starring John Hurt -- disc 2: An imaginative woman / adapted by William Trevor ; directed by Gavin Millar ; starring Claire Bloom ; The melancholy hussar / adapted by Ken Taylor ; directed by Mike Newell ; starring Ben Cross ; Barbara of the House of Grebe / adapted by David Mercer ; directed by David Jones ; starring Nick Brimble and Ben Kingsley.
Billie Whitelaw, Kenneth Haigh, Jane Asher, John Hurt, David Troughton, Edward Petherbridge, Claire Bloom, Norman Rodway, Ben Cross, Ben Kingsley, Leslie Sands.
"In 1973, the BBC commissioned six writers, six directors, and an exceptional cast of actors to undertake the Wessex tales of Dorset author Thomas Hardy. These tales-- of witchery, revenge, thwarted passion, costly ambition, buried desire, madness and betrayal-- find their participants entrapped repeatedly by fate-- always at liberty to make choices but inevitably confronted by their destiny"--Container.
Rating: Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over; contains moderate violence and horror.
DVD; region 2; PAL; aspect ratio 4:3; Dolby Digital.
8178264366
AV9706 Acorn Media
2013600744
England--Social life and customs
PR4749 / .A1 2004
Wessex tales / Thomas Hardy - Delhi : Rohan Book Company, 2004. - ill. ; 18 cm. - Popular illustrated classics .
Disc 1: The withered arm / adapted by Rhys Adrian ; directed by Desmond Davis ; and starring Billie Whitelaw ; Fellow townsmen / adapted by Douglas Livingstone ; directed by Barry Davis ; starring Jane Asher ; A tragedy of two ambitions / adapted by Dennis Potter ; directed by Michael Tuchner ; starring John Hurt -- disc 2: An imaginative woman / adapted by William Trevor ; directed by Gavin Millar ; starring Claire Bloom ; The melancholy hussar / adapted by Ken Taylor ; directed by Mike Newell ; starring Ben Cross ; Barbara of the House of Grebe / adapted by David Mercer ; directed by David Jones ; starring Nick Brimble and Ben Kingsley.
Billie Whitelaw, Kenneth Haigh, Jane Asher, John Hurt, David Troughton, Edward Petherbridge, Claire Bloom, Norman Rodway, Ben Cross, Ben Kingsley, Leslie Sands.
"In 1973, the BBC commissioned six writers, six directors, and an exceptional cast of actors to undertake the Wessex tales of Dorset author Thomas Hardy. These tales-- of witchery, revenge, thwarted passion, costly ambition, buried desire, madness and betrayal-- find their participants entrapped repeatedly by fate-- always at liberty to make choices but inevitably confronted by their destiny"--Container.
Rating: Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over; contains moderate violence and horror.
DVD; region 2; PAL; aspect ratio 4:3; Dolby Digital.
8178264366
AV9706 Acorn Media
2013600744
England--Social life and customs
PR4749 / .A1 2004