These videos related
to literature are available in St. Olaf College's Rolvaag Memorial
Library.
1984 / UMBRELLA-ROSENBLUM PRODUCTIONS; DIRECTOR, MICHAEL
RADFORD.
Producer, Simon Perry; writer & director, Michael
Radford.
John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack.
Based on the novel by George Orwell which is the story of impossible
love & tragic betrayal set in the twisted, horrific world of
"1984."
PN1997.85 .N56.
THE 39 STEPS.
Videocassette release of a 1935 film.
Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock; adaptation, Charles Bennett; producer, Michael
Balcon; photographer, Bernard Knowles; editor, D. N. Twist.
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Luci Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy
Ashcroft, Wylie Watson.
A first-class thriller that even today ranks among the finest works
of director, Alfred Hitchcock, this unparalleled tale of suspense &
intrigue is a must for mystery lovers. Robert Donat stars as the classic
Hitchcock hero, an innocent man drawn into a spiraling web of terror, deception
& chaos by forces he doesn't understand & can't escape. Madeleine
Carroll is the cool & beautiful heroine in this definitive version
of John Buchan's classic adventure yarn.
PN1997.85 .T47.
AELITA / PROD. BY MEZHRABPOM-RUSS; DIR. BY YAKOV PROTAZNOV.
Based on the novel by A. Tolstoy.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1924.
English subtitles with music sound track.
Costume & set designer, Alexandra Exter.
Yulia Solntseva, Valentina Kuinzhi, Nikolai Batalov, Igor Ilinsky.
Los, an engineer living in Moscow, dreams of Aelita, the Queen of Mars,
& builds a spaceship to take him to her. They fall in love, but Los
soon finds himself embroiled in the planet's proletarian uprising.
PN1997.85 .A29.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT / UNIVERSAL-INT'L.; DIR. BY LEWIS
MILESTONE.
Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
Videocassette release of the 1930 academy award winning motion picture
by Universal Pictures.
Screenplay, George Abbott; adaptation, Maxwell Anderson; score, David
Broekman.
Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray.
This story of World War I follows a group of young German recruits
through their passage from idealism to disillusionment with war.
PN1997.85 .A44.
AMADEUS / A MILOS FORMAN FILM.
Based on the play by Peter Shaffer.
Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture.
Producer, Saul Zaentz; director, Milos Forman; choreography & staging,
Twyla Tharp; music by Mozart, conducted & supervised by Neville
Marriner.
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge.
Antonio Salieri, an 18th-century composer, is jealous of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, who becomes the victim of his animus.
PN1997.85 .P48.
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE: A TRILOGY / NEW LINE CINEMA CORP.; FINE LINE
FEATURES PRESENTS A HIBISCUS FILMS PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NEW
ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION.
Based on the autobiographies of Janet Frame.
Originally prod. as motion picture in 1989.
"Winner of over 20 major awards & prizes at film festivals
worldwide."Director,
Jane Campion; screenplay, Laura Jones; director of photography, Stuart
Dryburgh; editor, Veronika Haussler; composer, Don McGlashan; producer,
Bridget Ikin.
Kerry Fox.
Chronicles the life of one of the 20th century's most gifted writers,
Janet Frame.
PR9639.3.F7 A5.
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS / UNIVERSAL PICTURES LTD.; PRODUCER, HAL
WALLIS.
Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson.
Videocassette release of the 1969 motion picture by Universal Pictures
Ltd.
Screenplay, John Hale & Bridget Boland; adaptation Richard Sokolove;
director, Charles Jarrott; producer Hal B. Wallis.
Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle.
Richard Burton & Genevieve Bujold star as King Henry VIII of England
& Anne Boleyn in this emotionally charged drama about one of history's
most famous tragic love affairs.
PN1997.85 .A66.
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA / BBC & TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; PRODUCER,
JONATHAN MILLER.
Based on: Antony & Cleopatra by Wm. Shakespeare.
Colin Blakely, Jane Lapotaire.
A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous
consequences of an overwhelming passion.
PN1997.85 .A69.
AS IS / KARL-LORIMAR HOME VIDEO, INC., BRANDMAN PRODUCTIONS, INC.;
DIR. BY MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG; PROD. BY IRIS MERLIS.
Based on the play from 1985 by Wm. M. Hoffman.
Director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg; producer, Iris Merlis, Patrick Whitley;
writer, Wm. M. Hoffman; music, Peter Matz; photography, Rene Ohashi; editor,
Ruth Foster; presenter, Michael Brandman.
Robert Carradine, Jonathan Hadary, Joanna Miles, Alan Scarfe, Colleen
Dewhurst.
The story of a York writer who contracts AIDS. This film, originally
a Broadway production, shows how it affects him, his friends, & his
family.
PN1997.85 .A7.
AS YOU LIKE IT / PRESENTED BY BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP. & TIME-LIFE
TELEVISION; PROD. BY CEDRIC MESSINA; DIR. BY BASIL COLEMAN; LITERARY CONSULTANT,
JOHN WILDERS.
Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, Richard Pasco, Angharad Rees,
James Bolam.
PN1997.85 .A73.
THE ATTIC: THE HIDING OF ANNE FRANK / RHI ENTERTAINMENT, INC.; TELECOM
ENTERTAINMENT, INC. IN ASSOCIATION WITH YORKSHIRE TELEVISION.
Based on the book "Anne Frank Remembered" by Miep Gies.
Originally prod. for television broadcast in 1988.
Production designer, Malcolm Middleton; director of photography, Peter
Jackson; music, Richard Rodney Bennett; editor, Jerrold L. Ludwig; executive
producers, Michael Lepiner, Kenneth Kaufman; producers, MarjorieKalins,
Timothy J. Fee, Nick Gilliott; teleplay, Wm. Hanley; director, John Erman.
Mary Steenburgen, Paul Scofield, Huub Stapel, Eleanor Bron, Frances
Cuka, Miriam Karlin, Ronald Pickup, Gary Raymond, Victor Spinetti, Tom
Wilkinson,Lisa Jacobs.
During the World War II Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Miep Gies
riskseverything she has to hide two Jewish families in the attic over the
officewhere she works.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .A8.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN / PROD. BY TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Based on the autobiography by Ernest J. Gaines.
Videocassette release of the 1973 television movie.
Director, John Korty; producers, Robert Christiansen & Rick Rosenberg;
teleplay, Tracy Keenan Wynn.
Cicely Tyson, Richard A. Dysart, Katherine Helmond.
Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began
her life as a slave in the South & who marched for her civil rights
in the 20th century at the age of 110.
PN1997.85 .A97.
BABETTE'S FEAST.
Based on the story by Isak Dinesen.
In Danish & French with English subtitles.
Director of photography, Henning Kristiansen; editor, Per Nrgard.
Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Phillipe
Lafont, Bibi Andersson.
Babette, a superb French chef, lives an anonymous life among a pious
congregation on the desolate coast of Denmark. As housekeeper & cook
to two elderly, religious women, she's never called on the prepare anything
very exciting; until one day, she wins 10,000 francs & decides to spend
it all by creating the most memorable meal ever consumed, even though her
guests will have no idea what they're eating.
Originally prod. as a motion picture in 1988.
PN1997.85 .B23.
BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY / PARAMOUNT PICTURES; PROD. BY MAURICE &
LOIS ROSENFIELD; DIR. BY JOHN HANCOCK; SCREENPLAY BY MARKHARRIS.
Based on the novel by Mark Harris.
Videocassette release of the 1974 motion picture by Paramount.
Robert de Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia.
Music, Stephen Lawrence.
A hard-nosed professional baseball team learns the meaning of friendship
& death when one of its players becomes tragically ill.
PN1997.85 .B26 1994.
BAREFOOT IN ATHENS / FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES; PRODUCER & DIRECTOR,
GEORGE SCHAEFER.
An enactment of the play of the same title by Maxwell
Anderson.
Television adaptation, Robert Hartung.
Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page, Anthony Quayle.
A bittersweet, amusing look at Socrates' last days. Centers on Socrates'
trial for "introducing new divinities" & "corrupting our young men,"
his refusal to compromise his integrity or striving after truth.
PN1997.85 .B27.
BECKET / PARAMOUNT PICTURES; PROD. BY HAL WALLIS; DIR. BY PETER
GLENVILLE; SCREENPLAY BY EDWARD ANHALT.
Based on the play by Jean Anouilh.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1964.
Photography, Geoffrey Unsworth; music, Laurence Rosenthal.
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit.
As young men, Thomas a Becket & King Henry II of 12th-century England
wench & carouse together. In middle age, Henry appoints Becket Archbishop
of Canterbury but a stormy clash develops when Becket, sobered by his office,
challenges Henry's royal edicts.
PN1997.85 .B43.
BEING THERE / LORIMAR DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL; SCREENPLAY BY
JERZY KOSINSKI; PROD. BY ANDREW BRAUNSBERG; DIR. BY HAL ASHBY.
Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.
Videocassette release of the 1980 motion picture.
Music by Johnny Mandel; executive producer, Jack Schwartzman.
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard
Dysart, Richard Basehart.
Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge
of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to a powerful
but dying tycoon.
PN1997.85 .B45.
BETRAYAL / 20TH-C. FOX CORP.
Based on the play by Harold Pinter.
A videocassette of 1983 motion picture released by 20th-C. Fox Corp.
Director, David Jones; producer, Sam Spiegel; screenplay, Harold
Pinter;director
of photography, Mike Flash; music, Dominic Muldowney; editor, John Bloom.
Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge.
Tells about a married man whose wife is having an affair with his best
friend. Pinter's Betrayal is a provocative place where feelings run high,
tempers run short & marriages begin & end with the silence of
desperation.
PN1997.85 .B48.
BILLY BUDD / A PRESENTATION OF LORIMAR; SCREENPLAY BY PETER USTINOV
& DEWITT BODEEN; PROD. & DIR. BY PETER USTINOV.
Movie version of the play by Louis Osborne Cox & Robert
H. Chapman, based on the novel by Herman Melville: story of the clash between
the young, innocent sailor, Billy Budd, & his corrupt superior,
Claggart.
Originally released as motion picture by Anglo-Allied Pictures, 1962.
Director of photography, Robert Krasker; film editor, Jack Harris;
art director, Peter Murton; technical advisor, Alan Villiers; camera operator,
John S. Harris; music composed by Anthony Hopkins.
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp.
Music conducted by Anthony Hopkins & played by the Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .B5.
BLACK NARCISSUS / THE ARCHERS FILM PRODUCTIONS; DIR., PROD., &
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER.
Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.
Videocassette release of the 1947 motion picture by The Archers Film
Productions/Universal International.
Writers-producers-directors, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Sabu, Kathleen
Byron. The awesome grandeur of the majestic Himalayas is the setting for
this haunting emotional stunner about the isolation, madness, spiritual
failures & sexual frustrations that overwhelm five missionary nuns
in a mountaintop convent.
PN1997.85 .B53.
BLACK ROBE / SAMUEL GOLDWYN CO.; ALLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS & SAMSON
PRODUCTIONS.
Based on the novel by Brian Moore.
Originally prod. as motion picture in 1991.
Director, Bruce Beresford; producers, Robert Lantos, Stephane Reichel,
SueMilliken; screenplay, Brian Moore; executive producers, Jake Eberts,
Brian Moore, Denis Heroux; music, Georges Delerue; director of photography,
Peter James.
Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo
Cardinal, Frank Wilson, Billy Two Rivers.
In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young, idealistic Jesuit priest
nicknamed Black Robe by his Algonquin Indian guides, is assigned to go
up river into the Canadian wilderness on a perilous journey to convert
the Huron Indians. His young aide & translator, Daniel, falls in love
with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own
desires & ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, &
his life & the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition
faces the elements & hostile Indians.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .B535.
BLEAK HOUSE / A BBC TV PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ARTS &
ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK; DRAMATISED BY ARTHUR HOPCRAFT; DIR. BY ROSS DEVENISH;
PRODUCERS, BETTY WILLINGALE, JOHN HARRIS.
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Originally shown on television.
Photographers, Kenneth Macmillan, John Walker; film editors, Clare
Douglas, Dave King; music, Geoffrey Burgon.
Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliot.
Denholm Elliot & Diana Rigg star in Charles Dickens' biting social
commentary on the justice system of 19th-century England. The infamous
Jarndyce case has been dragging through the courts for years, ruining lives
& leaving entire families devastated. John Jarndyce (Elliot), a good-natured
country gentleman, refuses to let it control his life. But one of his wards
is not so fortunate. Like so many before him, the young man gets caught
up in the labrynthine suit & the intrigue that surrounds it. A powerful
tale of greed & social decay.
PN1997.85 .B54.
THE BLUE ANGEL / [PRESENTED BY] CLASSIC PICTURES, INC.; SCREENPLAY
BY CARL ZUCKMAYER, KARL VOLLMUELLER, ROBERT LIEBMANN; AN ERICH POMMER
PRODUCTION;
DIR. BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG.
Adapted from the novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann.
Videocassette release of the 1930 film.
German with English subtitles.
Photography, Gunther Rittau; film editor, Walter Klee.
Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Hans Albers, Eduard von
Winterstein, Reinholt Bernt, Hans Roth.
An obsessive fascination with a cafe singer slowly destroys a quiet
professor.
PN1997.85 .B68.
THE CANTERBURY TALES / [PRESENTED BY] WATERBEARER FILMS; PEA PRODUZIONI
EUROPEE ASSOCIATE S.A.S.; PROD. BY ALBERTO GRIMALDI; WRITTEN & DIR.
BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI.
Based on the poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Originally released as motion picture in 1971.
Photography, Tonino Delli Colli; editor, Nino Baragli.
Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine
Chaplin, Alan Webb.
Pasolini's startling candor & ribald humor illuminate these classic
tales of romance, deception, murder & lust.
Dubbed in English from the Original Italian.
PN1997.85 .C36.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF / AN AVON PRODUCTION [PRESENTED BY]
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER.
Based on the novel by Tennessee Williams.
Director, Richard Brooks; producer, Lawrence Weingarten; photography,
Wm. Daniels; screenplay, Richard Brooks, James Poe; editor, Ferris
Webster.
Originally prod. as a motion picture in 1958.
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson,
Madeleine Sherwood.
A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family
as its members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
PN1997.85 .C37.
THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH ... / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE;
A LAURENCE OLIVIER PRODUCTION.
Based on the play by Wm. Shakespeare.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1944 by Two Cities.
Producer-director, Laurence Olivier; screenplay, Laurence Olivier &
Alan Dent; art director, Paul Sheriff; photography, Robert Krasker; costume
design, Roger Furse; music, Sir Wm. Walton; music director, Muir Matheson;
music score, The London Symphony Orchestra.
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Renee Asherson, Felix
Aylmer, Esmond Knight, Leo Genn.
Shakespeare's play is presented as a performance at the Globe Theatre
in 1600. The scene becomes progressively more realistic for the Battle
of Agincourt, but once again reverts to the Globe for the conclusion.
PN1997.85 .C57.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE / PROD. & DIR. BY STANLEY KUBRICK; SCREENPLAY
BY STANLEY KUBRICK.
Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.
Videocassette release of the 1971 motion picture released by Warner
Bros.
Executive producers, Max L. Raab, Si Litvinoff; cinematographer, John
Alcott; editor, Bill Butler; electronic music composed & realised by
Walter Carlos.
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee.
Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying
cities, murderous adolescents & nightmarish technologies of punishment
& crime.
PN1997.85 .C65.
THE COLOR PURPLE / WARNER BROTHERS.
Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture by Warner Brothers.
Executive producers, Jon Peters, Peter Guber; producer-director, Steven
Spielberg; screenplay, Menno Meyjes.
Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn
Chong. An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped
by her father, deprived of the children she bore him & forced to marry
a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two
remarkable women, acquiring self-worth & the strength to forgive.
PN1997.85 .C7.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PROD. BY SHAUN SUTTON;
DIR. BY JAMES CELLAN JONES; A BBC TELEVISION PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION
WITH TIME-LIFE TELEVISION.
Cyril Cusack (Aegeon), Charles Gray (Solinus), Michael Kitchen
(the Antipholi), Roger Daltrey (the Dromios), Wendy Hiller (Aemelia).
A dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's comedy about the confusion between
twin brothers, & their slaves who are also twins.
PN1997.85 .C77.
CYMBELINE / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PROD. BY SHAUN SUTTON; DIR. BY JANE
HOWELL; A BBC TELEVISION PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH TIME-LIFE
TELEVISION.
A dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play entitled Cymbeline.
Music, Stephen Oliver; conductor, Marcus Dods; literary consultant,
Dr. John Wilders.
Richard Johnson, Hugh Thomas, Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, Michael
Pennington,
John Kane, Nicholas Young, Paul Jesson.
PN1997.85 .C95.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC / [ORIAN PICTURES CORP.; PRESENTED BY RENE CLEITMAN
& MICHEL SEYDOUX; AN ORION CLASSICS RELEASE].
Adapted from the novel by Edmond Rostand.
Videocassette release of the 1990 motion picture.
In French with yellow English subtitles.
Screenplay by Jean-Paul Rappeneau & Jean-Claude Carriere; music
composed & dir. by Jean-Claude Petit; dir. by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.
Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Roland
Bertin.
In 17th-century Paris, a long-nosed poet & swordsman helps his
handsome friend win the girl he himself loves.
PN1997.85 .C97.
DANGEROUS LIAISONS / WARNER BROS. INC.
Based on the play by Christopher Hampton & adapted from
the novel Les Liaison dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos.
Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture by Warner Bros.
Producers, Norma Heyman & Hank Moonjean; director, Stephen Frears;
screenplay, Christopher Hampton; music, George Fenton.
Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer; Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu
Reeves, Mildred Natwick, Uma Thurman.
A rich, scheming widow, a predatory rake & a beautiful, virtuous
woman take the field in the age-old battle of the sexes in the 18th
century.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .D3.
DAVID COPPERFIELD / METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER; BY CHARLES DICKENS; DIR.
BY GEORGE CUKOR; PROD. BY DAVID O. SELZNICK; ADAPTATION BY HUGH WALPOLE;
SCREEN PLAY BY HOWARD ESTABROOK.
Originally released as a motion picture by MGM in 1935.
Photographer, Oliver T. Marsh; film editor, Robert J. Kern; music,
Herbert Stothart.
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, W.C. Fields, Edna May Oliver,
Elizabeth Allan, Freddie Bartholomew, Lewis Stone, Roland Young, Madge
Evans, Frank Lawton.
David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother
& his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone
weds David's mother & drives her to an early grave. Despised by his
stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery & poverty until he
runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles
Dickens's classic tale of growing up.
PN1997.85 .D355.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY / [WRITTEN & DIR. BY JEAN RENOIR].
Based on Une partie de campagne by Guy de Maupassant.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1936.
French with English subtitles.
Written & dir. by Jean Renoir; photography, Claude Renoir, Jean
Bourgoin; music, Joseph Kosma.
Sylvie Bataille, Georges Darnoul, Jane Marken, Paul Temps.
"Around 1880, a Parisian tradesman & his family picnic one Sunday
in the country, & one of the daughters falls in love"--Halliwell's
Film & Video Guide, 5th ed.
PN1997.85 .J47.
THE DEAD / VESTRON VIDEO.
Director, John Huston; writer, Tony Huston; producers, Wieland
Schultz-Keil & Chris Sievernich; based on the story by James Joyce.
Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Rachael
Dowling, Ingrid Craigie, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Sean
McClory & Frank Patterson.
Takes place in turn-of-the century Dublin, at a holiday feast vibrant
with food & spirit. A young couple at the party, Gretta & Gabriel
Conroy, seem to have everything to be grateful for. But that night, a tenor's
voice recalls poignant memories, & Gabriel learns of his wife's unforgotten
young love.
PN1997.85 .D358.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN / A ROXBURY & PUNCH PRODUCTION; WRITER,
ARTHUR MILLER; PRODUCER, ROBERT F. COLESBERRY; DIRECTOR, VOLKER
SCHLONDORFF.
Based on the play by Arthur Miller.
Photography, Michael Ballhaus; editor, David Ray; production designer,
Tony Walton; music, Alex North.
Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang, Charles
Durning.
A social drama about an aging traveling salesman who recognizes the
emptiness of his life & commits suicide.
PN1997.85 .D4.
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS / PARAMOUNT; PROD. BY DON HARTMAN; DIR. BY
DELBERT MANN.
Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill.
Videocassette release of 1958 motion picture.
Screenplay, Irwin Shaw; music score, Elmer Bernstein.
Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts,
Rebecca Wells.
Set in 19th-century New England, this is a classic tale of greed, lust
& family hatred which shatters a family's life.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .E86.
THE DISPLACED PERSON / A PRODUCTION OF LEARNING IN FOCUS.
An adaptation of the short story of the same title by Flannery
O'Connor.
Videocassette release of a motion picture originally prod. for Perspective
Films in 1977.
Teleplay, Horton Foote; producer, Matthew N. Herman; director, Glenn
Jordan.
Irene Worth, Shirley Stoler, Lane Smith; special guest star, John
Houseman.
Portrays the difficulties of integration experienced by a Polish refugee
who arrives with his family at a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
PN1997.85 .D58.
DOCTOR FAUSTUS / COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPS.; PRODUCERS, RICHARD BURTON,
RICHARD MCWHORTER; DIRECTORS, RICHARD BURTON, NEVILL COGHILL.
Adapted by Nevill Coghill from Christopher Marlowe's The tragical
history of Doctor Faustus.
Videocassette release of the 1967 motion picture.
Director of photography, Gabor Pogany; editor, John Shirley; music,
Mario Nascimbene.
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, actors from the Oxford University
Dramatic Society.
An aging scholar makes a bargain with the devil for youth, knowledge,
& a beautiful temptress.
PN1997.85 .D63.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO / METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER; PROD. BY CARLO PONTI; DIR.
BY DAVID LEAN.
Based on the book by Boris Pasternak.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1965.
Producer, Carlo Ponti; director, David Lean.
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger.
PN1997.85 .D635.
A DOLL'S HOUSE / TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT; WORLD FILM SERVICES;
PRODUCER-DIRECTOR,
JOSEPH LOSEY.
Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen.
Videocassette release of the 1972 motion picture by Tomorrow
Entertainment.
Producer-director, Joseph Losey; screenplay, David Mercer; music, Michel
Legrand; English translation, Michael Meyer; director of photography, Gerry
Fisher; editor, Reginald Beck.
Jane Fonda, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyring, David Warner.
Nora, the "model wife," commits forgery & risks destruction in
order to save her husband. But after he rejects her, she leaves her husband
& children to begin a new life.
PN1997.85 .D637.
DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING & LOVE THE BOMB
/ HAWK FILMS LTD.; COLUMBIA PICTURES.
Based on the book "Red Alert," by Peter George.
A videocassette release of the 1963 motion picture by Columbia
Pictures.
Producer & director, Stanley Kubrick; screenplay, Stanley Kubrick,
Peter George, Terry Southern.
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim
Pickens & Tracy Reed.
A satire in which the President & his military advisers struggle
ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches
a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Russians are
poisoning the water supply in the United States.
PN1997.85 .D7.
THE DRESSER / COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.
Videocassette release of the 1983 motion picture by Columbia
Pictures Industries, Inc.
Screenplay, Ronald Harwood; producer-director, Peter Yates; music,
James Horner.
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins,
Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison.
Sir, a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to
his career, but his tyrannical rule over the co. is now beginning to crack
under the strain of age & illness as he prepares for his 227th performance
of King Lear. Sir's dedicated dresser, Norman, submits to Sir's frequently
unreasonable demands, tends to his health, & reminds him of what role
he is currently playing.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997 .D7.
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK / 20TH-C. FOX.
Based on the novel by Walter D. Edmonds.
Videocassette release of the 1939 motion picture.
Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck; director, John Ford; screenplay, Lamar
Trotti & Sonya Levien.
Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver.
A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader,
his spirited wife, & their struggles in the backwoods of New York
state.
PN1997.85 .D35.
EAST OF EDEN / WARNER BROS. PICTURES; PRODUCER & DIRECTOR, ELIA
KAZAN; SCREENPLAY, PAUL OSBORN.
Based on the novel by John Steinbeck.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1954.
Photography, Ted McCord; editing, Owen Marks; music, Leonard
Rosenman.
Raymond Massey, James Dean, Julie Harris, Dick Davalos, Jo Van Fleet,
Burl Ives, Albert Dekker.
In a California farming valley in 1913, a wild adolescent rebels against
his stern father, believing that his father favors his twin brother, &
discovers that his mother, whom he had thought dead, is alive.
PN1997.85 .E38.
EDIPO RE = OEDIPUS REX.
Videocassette release of a 1967 motion picture prod. in Italy.
Director & writer, Pier Paolo Pasolini; scenario, Pasolini; photography,
Bruno Bruni.
Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Carmelo Bene, Alida Valli.
Pasolini's own translation of the original Sophocles play is set within
a modern prologue & epilogue. Oracles predict that Oedipus will someday
kill his father & marry his mother, so the infant is sent into the
hills to be killed. The baby survives & is adopted by a neighboring
King of Corinth. Oedipus returns but his origins are kept a secret until
it is too late to avert his destiny.
In Italian with English subtitles.
PN1997.85 .O36 198-?
THE ELEPHANT MAN / PROD. BY JONATHAN SANGER; DIR. BY DAVID LYNCH;
SCREENPLAY BY CHRISTOPHER DEVORE, ERIC BERGREN & DAVID LYNCH.
Based on The Elephant Man & other reminiscences by Sir
Frederick Treves & in part on The Elephant Man, a study in human dignity,
by Ashley Montague.
Videocassette release of a motion picture by Paramount Pictures.
Director of photography, Freddie Francis; film editor, Anne V. Coats;
music, John Morris.
John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller.
Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences
faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man" (Hurt) when he is discovered
by a dedicated surgeon (Hopkins). Rescued from his degrading life as a
circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort,
respect, & dignity.
PN1997.85 .E42.
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN / FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES; PRODUCER & DIRECTOR,
GEORGE SCHAEFER.
An enactment of the play of the same title by Maxwell
Anderson.
Judith Anderson, Charlton Heston.
Spotlights the tumultuous love affair & power rivalry between an
aging Elizabeth I of England & the much younger Earl of Essex.
PN1997.85 .E424.
EMMA / DRAMATIZED BY DENIS CONSTANDUROS; PRODUCER, MARTIN LISEMORE;
DIR. BY JOHN GLENISTER; BBC.
From the novel by Jane Austen.
"Originally shown on British television.
Film cameraman, Ken Westbury; film editor, Clare Douglas; music arranged
by Tom McCall.
Doran Godwin, John Carson, Donald Eccles, Constance Chapman.
Film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young
woman who finds that it is sometimes all too easy to confuse good intentions
with self-gratification.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PR4034 .E4.
THE EMPEROR JONES / JANUS FILMS COLLECTION; JOHN KRIMSKY & GIFFORD
COCHRAN PRESENT PAUL ROBESON ..., WITH DUDLEY DIGGES; DIR. BY DUDLEY
MURPHY.
Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill.
Originally released as a motion picture by United Artists Corp. in
1933.
Photography, Ernest Haller; art direction, Herman Rosse; film editor,
Grant Whytock; music, Frank Tours.
Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, Ruby Elzy,
George Stamper.
PN1997.85 .E43.
THE EMPEROR JONES.
The Emperor Jones is dir. by Budley Murphy, with screenplay
adapted by DuBose Heyward from the drama by Eugene O'Neill; starring Paul
Robeson.
Young Brutus Jones is catapulted to emperor of a Caribbean island.
Paul Robeson, tribute to an artist, is an Academy Award winning short
documentary,. written & dir. by Saul J. Terell, narrated by Sidney
Poitier.
PN1997.85 .E43 1987.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT / A SAUL ZAENTZ PRODUCTION, & ANTHONY MINGHELLA
FILM.
Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje.
Videocassette release of a 1996 motion picture.
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas.
Director/screenplay writer, Anthony Minghella; film editor, Walter
Murch; original music, Gabriel Yared.
During World War II, a mysterious stranger is rescued from a fiery
plane crash. The American allies care for him & the dangerous secrets
from his past come to light.
Winner of 9 academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,
& Best Supporting Actress.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .E54.
EQUUS / UNITED ARTISTS CORP.; PRODUCERS, LESTER PERSKY & ELLIOTT
KASTNER; SCREENPLAY, PETER SHAFFER; DIRECTOR, SIDNEY LUMET.
Based on the play by Peter Shaffer.
Videocassette release of the 1977 motion picture by United Artists
Corp.
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright.
Psychiatrist Martin Dysart is handed the most shocking case of his
career when Alan Strang, who has blinded six horses with a metal spike,
is entrusted to his care. The case leads doctor & patient to a climactic
session in which the truth will be found, but at a price which neither
dares contemplate.
PN1997.85 .E7.
EXCALIBUR / DIR. & PROD. BY JOHN BOORMAN; SCREENPLAY, ROSPO
PALLENBERG & JOHN BOORMAN.
Originally released in 1981 as a motion picture by Orion.
Adapted from Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte d'Arthur by Rospo
Pallenberg.
Executive producers, Edgar F. Gross & Robert A. Eisenstein;
cinematographer,
Alex Thomson.
Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey,
Nichol Williamson.
The legends of King Arthur live in the last great battle between magic
& reality.
PN1997.85 .E9.
FIELD OF DREAMS / A GORDON CO. PRODUCTION; WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN
BY PHIL
ALDEN ROBINSON; PROD. BY LAWRENCE GORDON & CHARLES GORDON.
Based on the book "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella.
Previously issued as motion picture in 1989.
Music, James Horner; director of photography, John Lindley; production
designer, Dennis Gassner; executive producer, Brian Frankish; producers,
Lawrence Gordon & Charles Gordon; written for the screen & dir.
by Phil Alden Robinson.
Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt
Lancaster.
If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. Ray Kinsella
(Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball
field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield,
Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return
to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second
time up at bat in life.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1995.85 .F5.
FIRST KNIGHT.
Videocassette release of the 1995 motion picture by Columbia
Pictures.
Music, Jerry Goldmsith; executive producers, Gil Netter, Eric Rattray,
Janet Zucker; film editor, Walter Murch; production design by John Box;
director of photography, Adam Greenberg; story by Lorne Cameron & David
Hoselton & Wm. Nicholson; screenplay by Wm. Nicholson; prod. by Jerry
Zucker, Hunt Lowry; director, Jerry Zucker.
Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross.
This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of breathtaking
battles, heart-pounding courage, of the undeniable love that brought an
entire kingdom to its knees...& the undying passion that made it live
forever.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .F46.
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN / UNITED ARTISTS; SCREENPLAY BY HAROLD
PINTER; PROD. BY LEON CLORE; DIR. BY KAREL REISZ.
Based on the novel by John Fowles.
Originally released as motion picture in 1981.
Director of photography, Freddie Francis; editor, John Bloom; music,
Carl Davis.
Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons.
A woman, ostracized by Victorian society & abandoned by her French
lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery
of her clandestine past.
PN1997.85 .F74.
GONE WITH THE WIND / SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL PICTURES.
Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell.
Videorecording of the 1939 motion picture by Selznick International
Pictures; copyright renewed 1967 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; package [c1989?]
by Turner Entertainment Co.
Director, Victor Fleming; screen play, Sidney Howard; music, Max Steiner;
producer, David O. Selznick.
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland.
Set during the American Civil War, this story focuses on the lives
& loves of Southerners, & the hardships they endured.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .G6.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH / 20TH-C. FOX.
Based on the novel by John Steinbeck.
Videocassette release of the 1940 motion picture.
Director, John Ford.
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewine.
Tells the story of the migration of the Joad family to California from
their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
PN1997.85 .G72.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS / A CINEGUILD PRODUCTION; PROD. BY RONALD NEAME;
DIR. BY DAVID LEAN; PINEWOOD FILMS LTD.
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Videocassette release of the 1946 motion picture.
Photography, Guy Green; editor, Jack Harris; musical score, Walter
Goehr.
John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guiness, Jean Simmons, Francis L.
Sullivan, Bernard Miles, Martita Hunt.
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped
convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery
& wealth.
PN1997.85 .G74 1988.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS / BY CHARLES DICKENS; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP.;
BBC ENTERPRISES LTD.
Director, Julian Amyes; producer, Barry Letts; dramatization,
James Andrew Hall; music, composer & conductor, Paule Reade.
Gerry Sundquist, Joan Hickson, Stratford Johns, Phillip Joseph.
Philip Pirip, or "Pip" (Gerry Sundquist) is raised by his harsh sister
& her likable husband. Later, he meets the eccentric Miss Havisham
(Joan Hickson) & is smitten by the beautiful but utterly spoiled Estella
(Sarah-Jane Varley). Pip takes on her materialistic values but suffering
& maturity eventually teach him the difference between being true to
oneself & living according to self-deluding great expectations.
PN1997.85 .G74.
THE GREAT GATSBY / PARAMOUNT PICTURES; PROD. BY DAVID MERRICK; DIR.
BY JACK CLAYTON; SCREENPLAY BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA.
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Videocassette release of 1974 motion picture.
Photographer, Douglas Slocomb; film editor, Tom Priestley; music supervised
& conducted, Nelson Riddle.
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Sam Waterson, & Bruce
Dern.
About a mysterious American millionaire whose efforts to recapture
the sweetheart of his youth results in tragedy.
PN1997.85 .G75.
HAMLET / WARNER BROS.; DIR. BY FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI.
Based on the play by Wm. Shakespeare.
Videocassette release of the motion picture.
Production designer, Dante Ferretti; music, Ennio Morricone; executive
producer, Bruce Davey; screenplay, Christopher DeVore & Franco Zeffirelli;
producer, Dyson Lovell; director, Franco Zeffirelli.
Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena
Bonham-Carter.
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, who senses treachery
behind his father's death.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .H25.
HAMLET / BBC-TV & TIME-LIFE TV.
A dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play.
Producer, Cedric Messina; director, Rodney Bennett.
Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter, Patrick Stewart.
PN1997.85 .H25 1980.
HAMLET / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; DIR. BY LAURENCE OLIVIER.
Issued also as 3/4 in. U-matic & 1/2 in. Beta
videorecording.
Originally issued as motion picture by Two Cities, Britain, 1948, as
a Laurence Olivier production.
Photographer, Desmond Dickinson; editor, Helga Cranston; music by Wm.
Walton.
Music conducted by Muir Mathieson; played by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Laurence Olivier (Hamlet), Felix Aylmer (Polonius), Jean Simmons (Ophelia),
Eileen Herlie (Gertrude), Stanley Holloway (Gravedigger), Anthony Quayle
(Marcellus).
PN1997.85 .H25 1986.
HEDDA / BRUT PRODUCTIONS; DIRECTOR, TREVOR NUNN.
Based on the play "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen.
Producer, Robert Enders; executive producer, George Barrie;
director-screenplay,
Trevor Nunn.
Glenda Jackson, Timothy West, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart, Jennie
Linden.
Frustrated by the pointlessness of her middle class, married life,
the strong-willed Hedda realizes her only satisfaction comes from manipulating
others. Casting an insidious net of influence over both her passive husband
& a volatile former lover, Hedda is soon overwhelmed by her own cynical
schemes as they spiral out of control--with tragic results.
PN1997.85 .H33.
HENRY IV, PART II / PRESENTED BY BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP. &
TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; PRODUCER, CEDRIC MESSINA; DIRECTOR, DAVID GILES.
Presents a dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play entitled
Henry IV, Part II.
Script editor Alan Shallcross; video tape editor, Stan Pou; Camera,
Jim Atkinson.
Anthony Quayle, Jon Finch, David Gwilim.
PN1997.85 .H44.
HENRY V / BBC-TV & TIME-LIFE TV.
Producer, Cedric Messina.
David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Martin Neil.
Presents Wm. Shakespeare's play which portrays the emergence &
leadership of King Henry V as he unites his people, deals justly with traitors,
tirelessly leads his soldiers to victory, & ensures peace by his marriage
to a French princess.
PN1997.85 .H45 1980.
HENRY V / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; SAMUEL GOLDWYN HOME ENTERTAINMENT;
RENAISSANCE FILMS PLC, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BBC & CURZON FILM
DISTRIBUTORS
LTD.; ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN BY KENNETH BRANAGH; PROD. BY BRUCE SHARMAN;
DIREED BY KENNETH BRANAGH.
Videocassette release of the 1989 motion picture.
Editor, Michael Bradsell; music composer, Patrick Doyle.
Kenneth Branagh, Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson,
Alec McCowen, Judi Dench, Christian Bale; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
Simon Rattle, conductor.
Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne
of France, gathering an army & embarking on a course that will lead
to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs & forever change
the face of Europe.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .H45.
HOUSEKEEPING / COLUMBIA PICTURES.
Based on the book by Marilynne Robinson.
Videocassette release of the 1987 motion picture by Columbia
Pictures.
Producer, Robert F. Colesberry; screenwriter & director, Bill Forsyth;
music, Michael Gibbs.
Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill.
Aunt Sylvie, an eccentric free spirit, returns to her Hometown, a small
mountain community in the Pacific Northwest, to care for her two oprhaned
nieces.
PN1997.85 .H6.
HOWARDS END / MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTIONS, LTD.
Based on the novel by E. M. Forster.
Originally released as motion picture in 1991.
Production designer, Luciana Arrighi; associate producer, Donald Rosenfeld;
editor, Andrew Marcus; photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts; executive producer,
Paul Bradley; music, Richard Robbins; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala;
producer, Ismail Merchant; director, James Ivory; prod. in association
with Nippon Film Development Finance Inc. & Film Four International.
Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson,
James Wilby, Samuel West, Prunella Scales.
Tells the story of the idealistic, independent & highly educated
Schlegel sisters & their tangled relationships with a rich businessman
& his family, & with an unhappily married young bank clerk.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .H63.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST / J. ARTHUR RANK ORGANIZATION.
Based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
Videocassette release of the 1952 motion picture.
Director, Anthony Asquith; producer, Teddy Baird.
Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans,
Dorothy Tutin, Joan Greenwood.
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose
fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
PN1997.85 .I47.
IN COLD BLOOD / COLUMBIA PICTURES; WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN &
DIR. BY RICHARD BROOKS.
Based on the book by Truman Capote.
Videocassette release of the 1967 motion picture.
Director of photography, Conrad Hall; film editor, Peter Zinner; music,
Quincy Jones.
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe.
Dramatizes a real crime in which a Kansas farmer, his wife & two
teenage children were brutally murdered by two ex-convicts. Explores the
inner workings of the criminals' minds as it follows their purposeless
meanderings through Mexico & the U.S. in evasion of the law.
PN1997.85 .T78.
THE INFERNO / DANTE; PROD. BY DENIS WIGMAN, KEES KASANDER; DIR.
BY TOM PHILLIPS, PETER GREENAWAY; CHANNEL FOUR TELEVISION, ELSEVIER VENDIX,
VPRO.
Camera, Edwin Verstegen ... [et al.]; editor, John Wilson.
John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley.
Radical, new visual techniques are used to bring Dante's Inferno to
the screen. The film illustrates & complements Dante's text, re-creating
a 600 year-old work as a late 20th-century post-modern masterpiece.
PN1997.85 .I52.
THE INFORMER / RKO RADIO PICTURES; DIR. BY JOHN FORD.
Based on the story by Liam O'Flaherty.
Videocassette release of the 1935 motion picture.
Producer & director, John Ford; associate producer, Cliff Reid;
screen play, Dudley Nichols; music, Max Steiner.
Victor McLaglen, Preston Foster, Heather Angel, Margot Grahame.
The story of hard drinking Gippo Nolan who informs on a buddy in order
to collect a reward during the Irish rebellion. He squanders the money
on women & drink, & then suffers intense emotional anguish.
PN1997.85 .I53.
THE INVISIBLE MAN / UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORP.
Based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
Videocassette release of the 1933 film.
Producer, Carl Laemmle; director, James Whale; screenplay, R. C.
Sherriff.
Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains, Wm. Harrigan, Dudley Digges, Una O'Connor,
Henry Travers, Forrester Harvey.
A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible but can't reverse
the process. He realizes with terror that he has become a prisoner of his
unseen self, & this unbearable state drives him to madness &
murder.
PN1997.85 .I55.
IRONWEED / TAFT ENTERTAINMENT PICTURES/KEITH BARISH PRODUCTIONS.
Based on the novel by Wm. Kennedy.
Videocassette release of the 1987 motion picture by Taft Entertainment
Pictures/Keith Barish Productions.
Executive producers, Joseph H. Kanter, Denis Blouin, Rob Cohen; screenplay,
Wm. Kennedy; director, Hector Babenco.
Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Fred
Gwynne, Diane Venora, Tom Waits.
It's winter, 1938 in Albany, New York. The soup kitchens & flophouses
are overflowing with homeless street people seeking food & refuge from
the unforgiving cold. Francis Phelan wanders the streets, back in his hometown
after 22 years, an aimless vagabond ready to confront the family he abandoned
long ago. While sharing his whiskey with longtime "pal" Helen, Francis
reveals the dark secrets of his past, the painful memories from which he
once tried to escape...but now must reconcile.
PN1997.85 .I7.
THE JOY LUCK CLUB / HOLLYWOOD PICTURES.
Based on the novel by Amy Tan.
Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
"This film has been modified from its original version. It has been
formatted to fit your TV."
Music, Rachel Portman; director of photography, Amir Mokri; executive
producers, Oliver Stone, Janet Yang; screenplay, Amy Tan, Ronald Bass;
producers, Wayne Wang, Amy Tan, Ronald Bass, Patrick Markey; director,
Wayne Wang.
Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren
Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, Ming-Na Wen, Michael Paul Chan, Andrew McCarthy, Christopher
Rich, Russell Wong, Vivian Wu.
Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled
with joy & heartbreak, & shows how their experiences have affected
the hopes & dreams they hold for each of their children.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .J65.
KING LEAR / BBC & TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; PROD. BY SHAUN SUTTON;
DIR. BY JONATHAN MILLER.
Michael Hordern, John Shrapnel, John Bird.
Presents Wm. Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his
realm between two ungrateful daughters.
PN1997.85 .K56.
KUMONOSU-JO = THRONE OF BLOOD / A TOHO PICTURE; [PRESENTED BY] BRANDON
FILMS; PROD. & DIR. BY AKIRA KUROSAWA.
Based on Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957 entitled: Kumonosu-jo.
Japanese dialog, English subtitles.
Screenplay, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo
Oguni; photography, Asaichi Hakai; music, Masaru Sato; English adaptation,
Donald Richie.
Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru
Sasaki, Chiako Naniwa.
A samurai lord kills his master & usurps his power in fulfillment
of a witch's prophecy.
PN1997.85 .K8.
THE LADY WITH THE DOG / SOVEXPORTFILM; DIRECTOR, JOSEF HEIFETZ.
Based on the story by Anton Chekhov.
Videocassette release of a 1959 motion picture.
Russian with English subtitles.
Director, Josef Heifitz; screenplay, Josef Heifitz; photography, Andrei
Moskvin, Dimitri Meskhiev; music, N. Simonyan.
Iya Savvina, Alexei Batalov.
In Yalta at the turn of the century, an unhappily married woman &
a married man start an affair which lasts secretly over the years.
PN1997.85 .L23.
THE LAST TYCOON / PARAMOUNT PICTURES.
Videocassette release of the 1977 motion picture.
Director, Elia Kazan; producer, Sam Spiegel; screenplay, Harold Pinter
from the novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson,
Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Dana Andrews.
A penetrating glimpse at big studio politics in the early days of Hollywood;
a spectacular translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's notorious novel.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .L33.
THE LION IN WINTER / HAWORTH PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Based on the play by James Goldman.
Videocassette release of the 1968 motion picture.
Producer, Martin Poll; director, Anthony Harvey; screenplay, James
Goldman.
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn.
This historical film takes place in England at Christmas in the year
1183. The aging King Henry II must name a successor, & he summons his
estranged wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, & their three surviving
sons. It is less a family reunion than a state of convocation, since the
king's major rival in love & politics is Eleanor. Henry has also invited
18 year old King Phillip of France, brother of his mistress, Princess Alais.
The interplay of these proud & powerful nobles is full of intrigue
& danger.
PN1997.85 .L55.
LITTLE BIG MAN / HILLER PRODUCTIONS, LTD.; [PRESENTED BY] CINEMA
CENTER FILMS; A STUART MILLAR/ARTHUR PENN PRODUCTION.
Based on the novel by Thomas Berger.
Videocassette release of the 1971 motion picture by Hiller Productions,
Ltd. & Stockbridge Productions, Inc.
Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey, Chief Dan George, Faye
Dunaway.
Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) is 121 years old; & he's done it all.
He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant,
master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo
Bill, & is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either
the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the
Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .L57.
THE LITTLE FOXES / SAMUEL GOLDWYN; DIRECTOR, WM. WYLER.
Based on the play by Lillian Hellman.
Videocassette release of the 1941 motion picture by Samuel Goldwyn.
Producer, Samuel Goldwyn; director, Wm. Wyler; writers, Alan Campbell,
Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker.
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Dan Duryea, Teresa Wright, Richard
Carlson.
Regina Giddens is a vicious woman who destroys everyone around her
while trying to satisfy her desire for wealth & social position.
PN1997.85 .L58.
LOLITA / METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER IN ASSOCIATION WITH SEVEN ARTS
PRODUCTIONS.
Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Contains original theatrical trailer.
Producer, James B. Harris; director, Stanley Kubrick; screenplay, Vladimir
Nabokov; editor, Anthony Harvey; music, Nelson Riddle.
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon, Marianne Stone,
Diana Decker, Jerry Stovin, Gary Cockrell, Suzanne Gibbs, Roberta Shore.
The story of the passion of a middle-aged man for a young teenager.
PN1997.85 .L6.
THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER / A WOODFALL PRODUCTION.
Based on the novel by Alan Sillitoe.
A videocassette release of the 1962 motion picture.
Producer & director, Tony Richardson; screenplay, Alan Sillitoe;
music, John Addison.
Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Alex McGowan.
An 18-year-old boy, a product of a slum environment, is sent to reform
school where he becomes the top runner & the best bet to win against
a private school.
PN1997.85 .L6.
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT / JOSEPH E. LEVINE IN ASSOCIATION
WITH ELY LANDAU & JACK J. DREYFUS, JR.
Videocassette release of the 1962 motion picture by Embassy
Pictures.
Producer, Ely Landau; director, Sidney Lumet; music, Andre Previn;
director of photography, Boris Kaufman.
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Stockwell.
Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive
homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink
after realizing he is no longer a famous actor & an older brother who
is emotionally unstable & misfit, the family is reflected by their
youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive & aspiring writer.
PN1997.85 .L63.
LOOK BACK IN ANGER / WARNER BROS. PRESENTS A WOODFALL FILM; SCREENPLAY
BY NIGEL KNEALE; ADDITIONAL DIALOGUE BY JOHN OSBORNE; PROD. BY HARRY SALTZMAN;
DIR. BY TONY RICHARDSON.
Based on the play by John Osborne.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1959.
Photography, Oswald Morris; editing, Richard Best.
Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure.
PN1997.85 .L65.
M. BUTTERFLY / THE GEFFEN FILM CO.
Based on the play by David Henry Hwang.
Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture.
Producer, Gabriella Martinelli; director, David Cronenberg; screenplay,
David Henry Hwang.
Jeremy Irons, Johm Lone.
Story of a French diplomat & a Beijing Opera star who carry on
a love affair over almost 20 years before the diplomat discovers something
shocking about his lover.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .M215.
MACBETH / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; DIR. BY ORSON WELLES; [PRESENTED BY]
CHARLES K. FELDMAN; A MERCURY PRODUCTION BY ORSON WELLES.
Videocassette release of a motion picture by Republic Pictures,
1948; film restored by UCLA Film Archives & the Folger Shakespeare
Library.
Music, Jacques Ibert; director of photography, John L. Russell; art
director, Fred Ritter.
Music conducted by Efrem Kurtz.
Orson Welles (Macbeth), Dan O'Herlihy (MacDuff), Jeannette Nolan (Lady
Macbeth), Edgar Barrier (Banquo), Alan Napier (a holy father), Roddy McDowall
(Malcolm).
Presentation of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
PN1997.85 .M22 1986.
MACBETH / BBC; PROD. BY SHAUN SUTTON; DIR. BY JACK GOLD.
Nicol Williamson (Macbeth), Jane Lapotaire (Lady Macbeth),
Ian Hogg (Banquo), Tony Doyle (Macduff).
Presents a production of Wm. Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth designed
especially for television.
PN1997.85 .M22.
THE MALTESE FALCON / WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES, INC.
Based on the book by Dashiell Hammett.
Videocassette of the 1941 motion picture by Warner Brothers Pictures,
Inc.
Renewed in 1969 by United Artists Television, Inc.
Director & screenplay, John Huston.
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre.
After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into
a quest for a priceless statuette.
PN1997.85 .M33.
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS / COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES; PRODUCER-DIRECTOR,
FRED ZINNEMAN.
Based on the play by Robert Bolt.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1966.
Screenplay by Robert Bolt; prod. & dir. by Fred Zinnemann; music
by Georges Delerue.
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles,
Susannah York, Nigel Davenport, John Hurt, Corin Redgrave.
Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce
of King Henry VIII & the events which lead to More's execution.
PN1997.85 .M35.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING / LORIMAR DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling.
Videocassette release of the 1975 motion picture by Lorimar Distribution
International, Inc.
Producer, John Foreman; screenplay, John Huston, Gladys Hill; director,
John Huston; director of photography, Oswald Morris; editor, Russell Lloyd;
music, Maurice Jarre.
Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer.
Danny Dravot & Peachy Carnehan leave 19th-century India & set
out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't
seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's
treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold & priceless
rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .M357.
MANSFIELD PARK / BBC VIDEO.
Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Screenplay by Ken Taylor; prod. by Betty Willingale; dir. by David
Giles.
Starring Anna Massey, Bernard Hepton, Angela Pleasence.
True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished BBC
production of Jane Austen's celebrated novel set in 18th-century England.
Young, impoverished Fanny Price arrives at the elegant estate of her uncle,
Sir Thomas Bertram. Snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, she begins
her long struggle for accceptance by her shallow relatives who believe
wealth automatically means quality.
PN1997.85 .M37.
"MASTER HAROLD" & THE BOYS / LORIMAR.
Based on the novel by Athol Fugard.
Originally released by Lorimar Productions in 1984 as a motion
picture.
Producer, Iris Merlis; director, Michael Lindsay-Hogy.
Matthew Broderick, Zakes Mokae, John Kani.
A young white man's frustration with the return home of his alcoholic,
handicapped father turns into racist viciousness against the two black
men who work for the family.
PN1997.85 .M376.
MAURICE / CINECOM PICTURES.
Based on the book by E. M. Forster.
Videorecording of the 1987 motion picture.
Dir. by James Ivory; prod. by Ismail Merchant; screenplay, Kit
Hesketh-Harvey
& James Ivory; music by Richard Robbins.
James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow,
Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls & Ben
Kingsley.
Set in pre-World War I England, this film concerns the coming of age
of two young men who meet at Cambridge & fall in love. Maurice &
Clive struggle with the desires of their hearts & the rigid constraints
of society.
PN1997.85 .M38.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PRESENTED BY BBC-TV IN
ASSOCIATION WITH TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; PROD. BY CEDRIC MESSINA; DIR. BY
DESMOND DAVIS.
v. 1. Pt. 1 -- v. 2. Pts. 2-3.
Kenneth Colley, Kate Nelligan, Tim Pigott-Smith, John McEnery, Christopher
Strauli, Jacqueline Pearce, Kevin Stoney.
Presents a dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play entitled Measure
for Measure.
PN1997.85 .M42.
MEDEA / FREELY ADAPTED FROM EURIPIDES BY ROBINSON JEFFERS; MARK
CULLINGHAM, DIRECTOR; MARY RAWSON, PRODUCER.
Dir. for stage by Robert Whitehead.
Zoe Caldwell, Judith Anderson, Mitchell Ryan.
Filmed at the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts.
PN1997.85 .M43 1982.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE / BBC & TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER, JONATHAN MILLER.
Warren Mitchell, Gemma Jones, John Franklyn-Robbins.
A dramatization of Shakespeare's play entitled The merchant of Venice.
PN1997.85 .M47.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM / BBC & TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; PRODUCERS,
CEDRIC MESSINA & JONATHAN MILLER.
Originally broadcast on PBS.
Issued as U-matic 3/4 in. or Beta II 1/2 in. or VHS 1/2 in.
Helen Mirren (Titania), Peter McEnery (Oberon), Pippa Guard (Hermia),
Brian Glover (Bottom).
Presents Wm. Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers,
& tradesmen-actors.
PN1997.85 .M52.
THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR / UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS; DIR. BY ROBERT
REDFORD.
Based on the novel by John Nichols.
Prod. & dir. by Robert Redford; co-producer, Moctesuma Esparza;
screenplay by David Ward & John Nichols.
Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon,
Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Carlos Riquelme, Daniel Stern, Christopher
Walken, Chick Vennera.
When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate
his small beanfield by "borrowing" some water from a large & potentially
destructive development site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction
that erupts into a humorous culture clash. The developers then try to stamp
out the modest plantings, forcing the handyman's friends to team up with
the spirited "rebel" to protect & preserve their way of life.
PN1997.85 .M55.
LES MISERABLES / WARNER BROS. PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH LES FILMS
13/TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION; WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF CANAL+; A CLAUDE LELOUCH
FILM.
Inspired by Victor Hugo's classic novel.
Originally released as motion picture in 1995.
Music, Francis Lai, Philippe Servain, Erik Berchot, Michel Legrand,
Didier Barbelivien; written & dir. by Claude Lelouch.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot,
Clementine Celarie, Philippe Leotard.
During the Nazi occupation of France, Henri Fortin is a true &
simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of the novel,
Les Miserables.
In French with white English subtitles.
Winner of the "Golden Globe Award as 1995's Best Foreign Language
Film."
PN1997 .M565.
MOTHER / MEZHRABPOM-RUSS; DIR. BY V.I. PUDOVKIN.
Based on: Mat / Maxim Gorki.
Videocassette release of a silent motion picture from 1926.
Silent film with English subtitles & musical accompaniment.
Photography, A. N. Golovnia; scenario, N. Zarkhi, V.I. Pudovkin.
Vera Baranovskaia, Nickolai Batalov, A. Christiakov.
A heroic young revolutionary gives his life fighting against the misery
& poverty of Tsarist Russia in the futile prewar revolution of 1905,
&, in so doing, brings about the political awareness of his own
mother.
PN1997.85 .M67.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PROD. BY SHAUN SUTTON;
DIR. BY STUART BURGE.
A BBC Television production in association with Time-Life
Television.
Vol. 1. Pt. 1 -- Vol. 2. Pts. 2+3.
Music, Simon Rogers; literary consultant, Dr. John Wilders.
Lee Montague, Cherie Lunghi, Katharine Levy, Jon Finch, Robert Lindsay,
Robert Reynolds.
A dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play.
PN1997.85 .M82.
MY BRILLIANT CAREER / TIME LIFE VIDEO.
Based on the novel by Miles Franklin.
Originally released as a film in 1980 by New South Wales Film Corp.
Director, Gill Armstrong; producer, Margaret Fink; screenplay, Eleanor
Witcombe.
Judy Davis & Sam Neill.
A young woman from the Australian Outback must choose between love
& independence.
PN1997.85 .M9.
MY LEFT FOOT / MIRAMAX FILMS PRESENTS A GRANADA FILM.
Based on the book by Christy Brown.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Videocassette release of the 1989 motion picture.
"1989 Academy Award winner: Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis; Best Supporting
Actress, Brenda Fricker".
Music composed & dir. by Elmer Bernstein; executive producer, Paul
Heller & Steve Morrison; screenplay by Shane Connaughton & Jim
Sheridan; prod. by Noel Pearson; dir. by Jim Sheridan.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack, Fiona
Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan.
Based on Christy Brown's true life story, My Left Foot features Daniel
Day-Lewis' Academy Award winning performance as a man who triumphs over
impossible odds to achieve greatnesss.
PN1997.85 .M93.
THE NATURAL / TRI-STAR PICTURES.
Based on the novel by Bernard Malamud.
Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture by Tri-Star Pictures.
Director, Barry Levinson; executive producers, Roger Towne, Philip
M. Breen; producer, Mark Johnson; screenplay, Roger Towne, Phil Dusenberry;
music, Randy Newman.
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley,
Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth.
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream
of baseball stardom. As a 14-year-old he fashions a baseball bat from an
oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent
also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental
in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters
his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights
& has an opportunity to share in their race for the pennant.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .N37.
NEVER TOO LATE.
Based on the book by Charles Reade.
Videocassette release of the Medallion TV/Hyams TV Films presentation
of the 1937 motion picture entitled It's never too late.
Dir. by David Macdonald.
Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor, Ian Colin, Lawrence Hanray,
D. J. Williams, Roy Russell, Johnny Singer.
The evil squire schemes to wed the beautiful farmer's daughter by jailing
her fiance.
PR5214.I87 A23 1994.
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA / METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER.
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams.
Videocassette release of the 1964 motion picture.
Producer, Ray Stark; director, John Huston; screenplay, Anthony Veiller
& John Huston.
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr & Sue Lyon.
Richard Burton plays a defrocked clergyman who travels to Mexico &
becomes a tour guide for a busload of spinster school teachers & a
sexy 18-year-old girl. Eventually he falls for the granddaughter of an
expatriate poet, a wise woman who starts to restore his world, but his
life is complicated by the arrival of an old flame.
PN1997.85 .N47.
NORTHANGER ABBEY / A BBC TV PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ARTS
& ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK; PROD. BY LOUIS MARKS; DIR. BY GILES FOSTER;
DRAMATIZED BY MAGGIE WADEY.
A dramatization of a Jane Austen novel prod. for television.
Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy, Katherine Schlesinger.
In 18th-century Bath, a girl bursting with freshness & passion
for macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, & romance,
espeically when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral
home.
PR4034 .N6 1992.
OEDIPUS REX / BY SOPHOCLES, IN A VERSION BY WM. BUTLER YEATS; A
STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL FOUNDATION OF CANADA PRODUCTION; DIR.
BY TYRONE GUTHRIE; PROD. BY LEONID KIPNIS.
Videocassette version of a 1957 film production of Sophocles's
tragedy, performed in masks.
Photography, Roger Barlow; music, Cedric Davie, Louis Applebaum.
Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, Douglas Rain.
PN1997.85 .O36.
OEDIPUS THE KING / BY SOPHOCLES; A NEW TRANSLATION BY DON TAYLOR;
A BBC TV CO-PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH BIOSCOPE INC.; PRODUCER, LOUIS
MARKS; DIR. BY DON TAYLOR.
Videocassette release of a 1987 production.
Camera supervisor, John Dailley; designer, David Myerscough-Jones;
videotape editor, Dave Hambelton; music, Derek Bourgeois; classical adviser,
Geoffrey Lewis.
Michael Pennington (Oedipus), Cyril Cusack (Priest), John Shrapnel
(Creon), John Gielgud (Teiresias), Claire Bloom (Jocasta), Norman Rodway
(Corinthian messenger), David Waller (Shepherd), Gerard Murphy (Messenger);
Endymion Ensemble.
This play recounts the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, a man, who
out of stubborn pride, must know the truth at all costs.
PN1997.85 .O36 1988.
OF MICE & MEN.
Based on the book by John Steinbeck.
Randy Quaid, Robert Blake, Pat Hingle, Ted Neeley, Cassie Yates.
Tells a story of two migrant workers. They dream of better days on
a spred of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic
consequences.
PN1997.85 .O37.
OLIVER TWIST / BBC ENTERPRISES LTD.; CBS/FOX CO.
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Director, Gareth Davies; producer, Terrance Dicks; teleplay, Alexander
Baron.
Ben Rodska, Eric Porter, Frank Middlemass, Godfrey James, Lysette
Anthony.
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood,
Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin,
& their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's
true identity that his troubles finally end.
PN1997.85 .O4.
ON THE WATERFRONT / COLUMBIA PICTURES CORP.
Based on the story by Budd Schulberg.
Videocassette release of the 1954 motion picture by Columbia Pictures
Corp.
1954 Academy Award-winner for Best Film.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Producer, Sam Spiegel; director, Elia Kazan; screenplay, Budd Schulberg;
music, Leonard Bernstein; director of photography, Boris Kaufman.
Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, & Rod
Steiger.
A young dockworker, Terry Malloy, tries to break the hold of a waterfront
boss. When his crooked brother, Charley the Gent, is brutally murdered
for refusing to kill him, Terry battles to crush Friendly's underworld
empire.
PN1997.85 .O6.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST / FANTASY FILMS.
Based on the novel by Ken Kesey.
Videorecording of the 1975 motion picture.
Screenplay, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman; camera, Haskell Wexler; music,
Jack Nitzsche; producers, Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas; director, Milos
Forman.
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Wm. Redfield.
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse
of a mental ward & the full spectrum of institutional repression.
PN1997.85 .O63.
ORDINARY PEOPLE / SCREENPLAY BY ALVIN SARGENT; PROD. BY RONALD L.
SCHWARY; DIR. BY ROBERT REDFORD.
Based on the novel by Judith Guest.
Videocassette release of the motion picture by Paramount.
Director of photography, John Bailey; editor, Jeff Kanew; music adaptation,
Marvin Hamlisch.
Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton.
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered
with the death of the older son & the struggle of the younger son against
guilt & suicide.
PN1997.85 .O73.
OUT OF AFRICA / UNIVERSAL PICTURES LTD.
Based on the books "Out of Africa," Shadows on the grass" &
"Letters from Africa" by Isak Dinesen; "Isak Dinesen, the life of a storyteller"
by Judith Thurman; "Silence will speak" by Errol Trzebinski.
Originally released as motion picture in 1985.
Co-producer, Terry Clegg; executive producer, Kim Jorgensen; associate
producers, Judith Thurman, Anna Cataldi; music, John Barry; screenplay,
Kurt Luedtke; producer/director, Sydney Pollack.
Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer.
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her
philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To
her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land,
its people & a mysterious white hunter.
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .O98.
THE OVERCOAT = [SHINEL] / J. JAY FRANKEL PRESENTS A LENFILM STUDIOS
PRODUCTION.
Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol.
Videocassette release of the 1959 motion picture.
In Russian with English subtitles.
Script, L. Solobyov; director, Alexei Batalov; music, N. Sidelnikov;
subtitles, Ted Esterbrook.
Roland Bykov, Y. Tolubeyev, A. Yezhkina, Y. Ponsova.
Akaky Akakyevitch is a small, insignificant man who endures ridicule
from his co-workers & performs tedious work copying legal papers. When
he uses his life savings to buy a custom made overcoat, it changes his
life, but also leads to tragedy.
PN1997.85 .N5.
A PASSAGE TO INDIA / COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture by Columbia Pictures
Industries, Inc.
Winner of two Academy Awards.
Director, David Lean; producers, John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin;
screenplay,
David Lean; music, Maurice Jarre.
Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers,
Victor Banerjee.
While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by
her son's fiancee, becomes appalled at the treatment of the Indians by
the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who,
over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies
on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting
to rape the young girl.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .P35.
A PERFORMANCE OF MACBETH / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PROD. & CONCEIVED
FOR TELEVISION BY TREVOR NUNN.
Television director, Philip Casson; music, Guy Woolfenden.
Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, & the members of the Royal Shakespeare
CO.
Shakespeare's tragedy of a Scots nobleman driven to regicide by an
ambitious wife & his own lust for power.
PN1997.85 .P4.
PERSUASION / BY JANE AUSTEN; ADAPTED BY JULIAN MITCHELL; BRITISH
BROADCASTING CORP. & BBC ENTERPRISES LTD.
Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Originally prod. for television broadcast in 1971.
Film cameraman, David Wood; film editor, Stan Challis; musical arranger,
Steven Hancock; designer, Peter Phillips; producer/director, Howard Baker.
Ann Firbank, Bryan Marshall, Basil Dignam, Valerie Gearon, Marian Spencer,
Georgine Anderson, Richard Vernon, Morag Hood, Rowland Davies, Mel Martin,
Zhivila Roche, Noel Dyson, Wm. Kendall, Charlotte Mitchell, David Savile,
Helen Ryan, Michael Culver.
Eight years after Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal
of marriage, they meet again. Ann now recognizes the false values that
persuaded her to reject Captain Wentworth, but his heart seems set upon
the youth & beauty of the impetuous Louisa Musgrove.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PR4034 .P4.
THE PIT & THE PENDULUM / ALTA VISTA PRODUCTIONS; PROD. &
DIR. BY ROGER CORMAN; SCREENPLAY BY RICHARD MATHESON.
Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Videocassette release of the 1961 motion picture by Alta Vista
Productions.
Music by Les Baxter.
Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders.
A young man's search for the truth of his sister's death uncovers a
bizarre & ghastly secret--& plunges him into a mightmarish torture
devised by a notorious master of the Inquisition.
PN1997.85 .P57.
LE PLAISIR / FROM THREE SHORT STORIES BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT; ADAPTED
BY JACQUES NATANSON & MAX OPHULS.
French dialogue with English subtitles.
Originally prod. as a motion picture in 1952.
Director, Max Ophuls; narrator, Peter Ustinov; English titles by Herman
G. Weinberg.
Starring Claude Dauphin, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Gaby Morley,
Jean Servais, Simone Simon.
The Mask is the story of a young man at a masked ball who pursues his
youth. The Model is the story of a painter & the model he pursues to
tragedy, marriage & ever after. A madame & her five ladies attend
her niece's first communion in The House of Madame Tellier.
PN1997.85 .P613.
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD / FOUR PROVINCES; BY JOHN MILLINGTON
SYNGE; SCREENPLAY BY BRIAN DESMOND HURST; PROD. BY BRENDAN SMITH &
DENIS O'DELL; DIR. BY BRIAN DESMOND HURST.
Based on the play by J. M. Synge.
Originally released as motion picture by British Lion Films in 1962.
Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth; editor, Norman Savage.
Siobhan McKenna, Elspeth March, Liam Redmond, Gary Raymond.
An Irish comedy. Siobhan McKenna plays Pegeen, the innkeeper's daughter
who is enthralled by the playboy who turns a quiet village upside down,
& Gary Raymond is first-rate as the object of her adoration.
PN1997.85 .P55.
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN / FROM THE NOVEL BY JAMES
JOYCE; SCREENPLAY BY JUDITH RASCOE; DIR. BY JOSEPH STRICK; MADE ON LOCATION
IN IRELAND BY ULYSSES FILM PRODUCTION LTD.
Based on the novel by James Joyce.
Photography, Stuart Hetherington; editing, Lesley Walker; music, Stanley
Myers.
Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna, John Gielgud.
An adaptation of Joyce's autobiographical novel in which the author,
through the character of Stephen Dedalus, portrays his youth, his Irish
Catholic upbringing, & his coming of age at a Dublin University.
PR6019.O9 P6 1977.
PRESTUPLENIE I NAKAZANIE = CRIME & PUNISHMENT.
In Russian with English subtitles.
Videocassette release of a 1970 [i.e. 1969] motion picture by Gorky
Studios.
Based on the novel by F. Dostoyevsky.
Director, Lev Kulidzhanov; screenplay, Nikolai Figurovskii; photography,
Viacheslav Shumskii.Georgii Taratorskii, Innokentii Smoktunovskii, Tat'iana
Bedova, Viktoria Fedorova.
A former law student kills two women & is tortured by remorse.
PN1997.85 .P63.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE / METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER; DIR. BY ROBERT Z. LEONARD;
PROD. BY HUNT STROMBERG; SCREENPLAY BY ALDOUS HUXLEY & JANE MURFIN.
Based on the dramatization of Jane Austen's novel written by
Helen Jerome.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1940.
Director of photography, Karl Freund; film editor, Robert J. Kern;
music, Herbert Stothart.
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen
O'Sullivan, Ann Rutherford, Frieda Inescord, Edmund Gwenn.
An opinionated young lady of the early 19th century wins herself a
rich husband she had at first despised for his pride.
PN1997.85 .P65 198-
PRIDE & PREJUDICE, OR, FIRST IMPRESSIONS / BY JANE AUSTEN; DRAMATISED
BY FAY WELDON.
Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Screenplay by Fay Weldon; prod. by Jonathan Powell; dir. by Cyril
Coke.
Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul.
Amusing story of a young woman's adventures & misadventures in
the society of the 19th-century English gentry.
Close captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .P65.
RACCONTI DI CANTERBURY. ENGLISH.
Based on the poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Originally released as motion picture in 1971.
Photography, Tonino Delli Colli; editor, Nino Baragli.
Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine
Chaplin, Alan Webb.
Pasolini's startling candor & ribald humor illuminate these classic
tales of romance, deception, murder & lust.
Dubbed in English from the Original Italian.
PN1997.85 .C36.
A RAISIN IN THE SUN.
Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Videorecording of the motion picture released in 1961 by Columbia Pictures
Corp.
Producers, David Susskind & Philip Rose; director, Daniel Petrie;
screenplay, Lorraine Hansberry.
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee.
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living
on Chicago's South Side & the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest.
Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams &
of escape from grinding frustrations.
PN1997.85 .R3.
RAN / AAA, ACTEURS AUTEURS ASSOCIES; REVCOM; PROD. BY SERGE SILBERMAN
& MASATO HARA; DIR. BY AKIRA KUROSAWA.
Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
A French-Japanese coproduction. Originally released in 1985 as a
motion
picture by Greenwich Film Production, S.A./Herald Ace Inc./Nippon Herald
Films, Inc.
Date on container, c1993.
Screenplay, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide; photography, Takao
Saito, Masaharu Ueda; music, Toru Takemitsu; English adaptation, Anne
Brav.
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada,
Yoshiko Miyazaki, Peter.
In 16th-century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom
among his three sons. They turn against each other & betray their father,
triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family,
& drive their father insane.
PN1997.85 .R36.
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY / COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS A MIKE NICHOLS,
JOHN CALLEY, MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTION.
Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
Production designer, Luciana Arrighi; editor, Andrew Marcus; music,
Richard Robbins; director of photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts; executive
producer, Paul Bradley; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; producers, Mike
Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant; director, James Ivory.
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve.
The story of blind devotion & repressed love between a fanatically
perfect butler & a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper in
the employ of a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .R45.
RESTORATION / MIRAMAX FILMS PRESENTS A SEGUE PRODUCTIONS/AVENUE
PICTURES PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH OXFORD FILM CO.; A FILM BY MICHAEL
HOFFMAN.
Based on the novel by Rose Tremain.
Originally prod. as motion picture in 1995.
Director, Michael Hoffman; producers, Cary Brokaw, Andy Paterson, Sarah
Ryan Black; executive producer, Kip Hagopian; co-producers, Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein & Donna Gigliotti; screenplay, Rupert Walters; original
score by James Newton Howard.
In 17th-century Britain, a young man seduced by the wealth & indolence
of the Restoration court, finds redemption of sorts through the love of
a woman.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 R47.
LE RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE = THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE / [PROD.
BY] LA SOCIETE FRANCAIS DE PRODUCTION CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE, LA SOCIETE DE
PRODUCTION DES FILMS MARCEL DASSULT, FRANCE REGION 3; UN FILM ECRIT PAR
JEAN-CLAUDE CAIERE, DANIEL VIGNE; UN FILM DE DANIEL VIGNE.
Originally released as motion picture in 1982.
In French, with English subtitles.
Cameraman, Andre Neau; music, Michel Portal.
Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye.
Based on a true medieval story, the film revolves around the suspenseful
unraveling of the identity of the title character, Martin Guerre, who has
disappeared as a young husband & resumes his marriage years later.
He's accused of being an imposter, a trial is held, & in a tension-filled
courtroom the situation is resolved.
PN1997 .R48.
RICHARD III / LONDON FILM PRODUCTIONS.
Adapted from the play by Wm. Shakespeare.
Videocassette release of the 1955 motion picture.
Producer, Laurence Olivier; director, Laurence Olivier; screenplay,
Laurence Olivier & Alan Dent; music, Wm. Walton.
Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke,
John Gielgud.
PN1997.85 .L38.
RICHARD III / LONDON FILM PRODUCTIONS, LTD.; PROD. & DIR. BY
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER.
Adapted from the play by Wm. Shakespeare.
Videocassette release of the 1955 motion picture by London Film
Productions.
Producer & director, Laurence Olivier.
Laurence Oliver, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud,
Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown, Stanley Baker.
The gripping story follows Richard of Gloucester, twisted both in mind
& body, as he schemes for the throne of England. His treacherous deeds
eliminate all who stand in the way of his succession. The powerful climax
reveals the tragic & tormented life of a warped hunchback who sought
solace & glory in being a king.
PN1997.85 .R53.
RICHARD III / BBC & TIME-LIFE TELEVISION; PRODUCERS, CEDRIC
MESSINA & JONATHAN MILLER.
Issued as U-matic 3/4 in. or Beta II 1/2 in. or VHS 1/2 in.
Originally broadcast on PBS.
Ron Cook, Brian Protheroe.
Presents Wm. Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a
self-proclaimed
villain, who usurps the crown from King Edward IV.
PN1997.85 .R53 1982.
THE RIGHT STUFF / LADD CO.; DIR. BY PHILIP KAUFMAN; WRITTEN FOR
THE SCREEN BY PHILIP KAUFMAN; PROD. BY IRWIN WINKLER & ROBERT
CHARTOFF.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1983.
Based on the book by Tom Wolfe.
Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel; editors, Glenn Farr ... [et
al.]; music, Bill Conti.
Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Quaid, Pamela Reed,
Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley, Fred Ward, Veronica Cartwright, David Clennon,
Scott Wilson.
The story of how seven cocky pilots became the astronauts of Project
Mercury & pioneered America's launch into the space race.
PN1997 .R54.
ROMEO & JULIET / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; DIR. BY RENATO CASTELLANI;
PROD. BY SANDRO GHENZI IN ASSOCIATION WITH JOSEPH JANNI.
Screen adaptation by Renato Castellani of the play by Wm.
Shakespeare.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1954.
Music composed by Roman Vlad; conducted by Lambert Williamson.
Photographer, Robert Krasker; editor, Sidney Hayers.
Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson. Chorus played by John
Gielgud.
PN1997.85 .R58 1988.
A RUMOR OF WAR / CHARLES FRIES PRODUCTIONS.
Based on the novel by Philip Caputo.
Videocassette release of the 1980 motion picture by Charles Fries
Productions.
Executive producers, Charles Fries, Dick Berg; producer, David Manson;
director, Richard T. Heffron; writer, John Sacret Young.
Brad Davis, Keith Carradine, Michael O'Keefe, Steve Forrest, Brian
Dennehy.
Fresh out of Officer's Candidate School, Philip Caputo is anxious to
get his first taste of combat. When he is finally assigned to the front
lines he does not encounter the glorious war he had imagined. He finds,
instead, sickening brutality of men killing men. After his platoon is decimated,
Lt. Caputo strikes back. His eagerness costs the lives of two Vietnamese
civilians, & in the midst of the bloody & senseless war, Caputo
is charged with murder.
PN1997.85 .R85.
SCHINDLER'S LIST / AN AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION; DIR. BY STEVEN
SPIELBERG; PROD. BY STEVEN SPIELBERG, GERALD R. MOLEN, BRANKO LUSTIG; SCREENPLAY
BY STEVEN ZAILLIAN.
Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally.
Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture.
Executive producer, Kathleen Kennedy; director of photography, Janusz
Kaminski; film edited by Michael Kahn; music by John Williams; violin solos
by Itzhak Perlman.
Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall.
The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi
party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than
1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
Academy Awards: Best Picture, Art Direction, Cinematography, Directing,
Film Editing, Music, Set Direction, Writting.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S346.
THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH / FIRST LOOK PICTURES RELEASING; JONES
ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LTD. IN ASSOCIATION WITH PETER NEWMAN PRODUCTIONS PRESENT
A SKERRY MOVIES PRODUCTION; PROD. BY SARAH GREEN, MAGGIE RENZI; WRITTEN
FOR THE SCREEN, DIR. & EDITED BY JOHN SAYLES.
Based on the book by Rosalie K. Fry.
Released as a motion picture in 1995.
Director of photography, Haskell Wexler; production design, Adrian
Smith; music, Mason Daring.
Mick Lally, Eileen Colgan, John Lynch, Jeni Courtney, Richard Sheridan,
Cillian Byrne.
A magical tale of a girl whose search for her missing brother brings
an Irish legend to life.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S43.
SHADOWLANDS / PRICE ENTERTAINMENT IN ASSOCATION WITH SPELLING
FILMS INTERNATIONAL; A SAVOY PICTURES RELEASE.
Based on the play by Wm. Nicholson.
Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
Music, George Fenton; associate producer, Alison Webb; editor, Lesley
Walker; production designer, Stuart Craig; director of photography, Roger
Pratt; co producer, Diana Hawkins; executive producer, Terence Clegg;
screenplay,
Wm. Nicholson; producers, Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman; director,
Richard Attenborough.
Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger.
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer &
professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets &
falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcee.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S488.
SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE SECRET WEAPON / [UNIVERSAL PICTURES].
Based on the story "The Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle.
Videocassette release of the 1942 motion picture.
Producer, Howard Benedict; director, Roy Wm. Neill; screenplay, Edward
T. Lowe, W. Scott Darling, Edmund L. Hartmann.
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey.
Sherlock Holmes vs. his arch rival, Professor Moriarty, who has kidnapped
the inventor of a new bombsight.
PN1997.85 .S52.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION / METRO-GOLDWYN MAYER PRESENTS A MAIDEN
MOVIES/NEW REGENCY PRODUCTION.
Based on the play by John Guare.
Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
"This film has been modified from its original version. It has been
formatted to fit your TV."
Music, Jerry Goldsmith; editor, Peter Honess; production designer,
Patrizia von Brandenstein; director of photography, Ian Baker; executive
producer, Ric Kidney; screenplay, John Guare; producers, Fred Schepisi,
Arnon Milchan; director, Fred Schepisi.
Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce
Davison, Ian McKellan.
When Manhattan art dealers take a young man into their home believing
him to be a friend of their children & Sidney Poitier's son, he leaves
them with a lasting impression.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PS3557.U2 .S5923 1994.
A SOLDIER'S STORY / COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.
Based on the play by Charles Fuller.
Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture by Columbia Pictures
Industries, Inc.
Executive producer, Charles Schultz; producers, Norman Jewison, Ronald
L. Schwary, Patrick Palmer; director, Norman Jewison; screenplay, Charles
Fuller; music, Herbie Hancock.
Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar.
A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal near the end of WW II to
investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own
roots.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S65.
SOPHIE'S CHOICE / ITC FILMS, INC.
Based on the novel by Wm. Styron.
Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture by ITC Films, Inc.
Executive producer, Martin Starger; producers, Alan J. Pakula, Keith
Barish; director, Alan J. Pakula; screenplay, Alan J. Pakula; music, Marvin
Hamlisch.
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol.
Sophie Zawistowska is a tragic Polish Catholic beauty who, having survived
Auschwitz, has settled in America after World War II. The time is 1947.
Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from rural Virginia, is drawn to
Sophie & Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability & flamboyance
utterly capture this young man's imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into
these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible &
terrifying secrets.
PN1997.85 .S655.
STAND BY ME / AN ACT III PRODUCTIONS PRESENTATION; DIR. BY ROB REINER;
SCREENPLAY BY RAYNOLD GIDEON & BRUCE A. EVANS; PROD. BY ANDREW SCHEINMAN,
BRUCE A. EVANS, RAYNOLD GIDEON.
Based on the novella "The Body" by Stephen King.
Videocassette release of the 1986 Columbia Pictures motion picture.
Director of photography, Thomas Del Ruth; film editor, Robert Leighton;
music, Jack Nitzche.
Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer
Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss.
This film about friendship & the indelible experiences of growing
up takes place in a small Oregon town as four boys set out on a two-day
search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey
of self-discovery.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S825.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE / CHARLES K. FELDMAN GROUP PRODUCTIONS;
DIR. BY ELIA KAZAN; PROD. BY CHARLES K. FELDMAN; SCREEN PLAY BY TENNESSEE
WILLIAMS, ADAPTATION BY OSCAR SAUL.
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1951 by Warner Bros.
Director of photography, Harry Stradling; film editor, David Weisbart;
music, Alex North.
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden.
A repressed widow visits her sister in New Orleans & is abused
& eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S832.
THE SWEET HEREAFTER / ALLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION
WITH FINE LINE FEATURES AN EGO FILM ARTS PRODUCTION; SCREENPLAY BY ATOM
EGOYAN; PROD. BY CAMELIA FRIEBERG & ATOM EGOYAN; DIR. BY ATOM EGOYAN.
Based on a novel by Russell Banks.
Ian Holm, Maury Chaykin, Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, David Hemblen,
vBrooke Johnson, Arsinee Khanjian, Tom McCamus, Stephanie Morgenstern,
Earl
Pastko, Sarah Polley, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson.
Editor, Susan Shipton; music, Mychael Danna; executive producers, Robert
Lantos, Andras Hamori.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, 1997; Academy Award nominee, 1997:
Best director, Best adapted screenplay.
Following a tragic schoolbus accident, high-profile lawyer Mitchell
Stephens descends upon a small town. With promises of retribution &
a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the grieving community, Stephens
begins his investigation into the details of the crash. But beneath the
town's calm, he uncovers a tangled web of lies, deceit & forbidden
desires that mirrors his own troubled personal life. Gradually, we learn
that Stephens has his own agenda & that everyone has secrets to keep.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .S94.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES / THE RANK ORGANISATION FILM PRODUCTIONS LTD.;
PROD. BY BETTY E. BOX; DIR. BY RALPH THOMAS.
From the novel by Charles Dickens.
Videocassette release of the 1958 motion picture.
Producer, Betty E. Box; director, Ralph Thomas; screenplay, T.E.B.
Clarke.
Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephan Murray, Athene Seyler,
Paul Guers, Marie Versini.
Classic tale by Dickens about two men & the woman they both love,
set during the turmoil of the French Revolution.
PN1997.85 .T25.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; A PRODUCTION BY JONATHAN
MILLER.
Music, Stephen Oliver; literary consultant, John Wilders; script editor,
David Snodin; designer, Olin Lowry.
Sarah Badel, John Cleese.
A BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television,
1980.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy set in 15th-century Padua in
which the swaggering Petruchio tries to tame the vile-tempered but lovely
Katherine.
PN1997.85 .T29.
TARTUFFE, OR, THE IMPOSTER / BY MOLIERE; A ROYAL SHAKESPEARE CO.
PRODUCTION; A BBC TV PRESENTATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH STRATFORD BARBICAN
TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS; PRODUCER, CEDRIC MESSINA; DIRECTOR, BILL
ALEXANDER.
Translated & adapted by Christopher Hampton; music arranged
by Alex Winterson & played by Simon Couzens.
Antony Sher (Tartuffe), Nigel Hawthorne (Orgon), Alison Steadman (Elmire),
Sylvia Coleridge, Stephanie Fayerman, Michael Maloney, Lesley Sharp, David
Bradley, Sara Mair-Thomas, Ian Talbot, John Tramper, Robin Meredith, David
Glover.
Clutching ever-present rosary beads, shifting uncomfortably within
the hairshirt he wears as continual penance--& always eyeing the women
as they pass--Tartuffe, Moliere's master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself
into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy.
Posing as a holy man, the wily Tartuffe entrances Orgon, a credulous well-to-do
merchant, bent on bestowing his wordly goods, social position, & nubile
daughter on the perfidious fraud. Tartuffe delights inaccepting it all--&
also arranges a little depraved dalliance with Orgon's young wife, Elmire.
PN1997.85 .T37 1984.
LE TARTUFFE: PIECE EN CINQ ACTES = TARTUFFE: A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS
/ DE MOLIERE; UN FILM DE GERARD DEPARDIEU; UNE COPRODUCTION, LES FILMS
DU LOSANGE ... [ET AL.].
Based on the stage production dir. by Jacques Lassalle for
the Theatre National de Strasbourg.
Originally prod. in 1984 as motion picture.
Dir. & adapted by Gerard Depardieu; producer, Margaret Menegoz;
cinematographer, Paul Bertault.
Francois Perier, Gerard Depardieu, Elisabeth Depardieu, Bernard Freyd,
Noureddine El Ati.
Adaptation of Moliere's play about the havoc created in a rich merchant's
household when he falls under the influence of a charismatic & hypocritical
religious zealot.
PN1997.85 .T37.
THE TEMPEST / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; TELEVISION ADAPTATION BY JOHN
EDWARD FRIEND; PROD. & DIR. BY GEORGE SCHAEFER.
Production design, Rouben Ter-Arutunian; Music, Lehman Engel.
Maurice Evans (Prospero), Richard Burton (Caliban), Roddy McDowall
(Ariel), Tom Poston (Trinculo), Liam Redmond (Gonzalo), Lee Remick
(Miranda).
Shakespeare's play of a fantasy world full of spirits, monsters &
maidens.
PN1997.85 .T4.
THE THIRD MAN / PROD. & DIR. BY CAROL REED.
Based on the novel by Graham Greene.
Videodisc release of the 1949 motion picture by London Film.
Screen play, Graham Greene; photographer, Robert Krasker; editor, Oswald
Hafenrichter; zither music, Anton Karas.
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard.
Post-World War II Vienna sets the scene for this tense thriller about
an American novelist who comes to Europe for what he thinks is the funeral
of an old friend & finds himself entangled in a spiralling web of
international
intrigue.
PN1997.85 .T45.
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE / UNITED ARTISTS; PROD. BY WM. CAGNEY; DIR.
BY H.C. POTTER; ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN BY NATHANIEL CURTIS.
Based on the play by Wm. Saroyan.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1948.
Originally prod. on the New York stage by The Theater Guild, Inc. in
association with Eddie Dowling.
Director of photography, James Wong Howe; film editors, Walter Hanneman,
Truman K. Wood; music, Carmen Dragon.
James Cagney, Wm. Bendix, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney, Broderick Crawford,
Ward Bond, James Barton, Paul Draper.
The assorted customers of a small saloon in the big city are a passing
parade, relating their problems & accomplishments, their joy &
sorrow to Joe, "whose hobby is people."
PN1997.85 .T55.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / DIR. BY ROBERT MULLIGAN; PROD. BY ALAN J.
PAKULA; SCREENPLAY BY HORTON FOOTE; UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL.
Based on the novel by Harper Lee.
Videodisc release of the 1962 motion picture by Pakula-Mulligan Productions
& Brentwood Productions.
Music, Elmer Bernstein; director of photography, Russell Harlan; film
editor, Aaron Stell.
Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Philip Alford,
Collin Wilcox, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Frank Overton, Rosemary
Murphy.
Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world
of racial bigotry & hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend
a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl.
PN1997.85 .T6.
TONIO KROGER.
Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
Videocassette release of the 1965 motion picture, this adaptation was
co-written by Erika Mann (the novelists daughter) & Ennio Flaiano (Fellini's
frequent collaborator).
In German with English subtitles.
Photographer, Wolf Wirth; editor, Inge Taschner; music, Rolf Wilhelm.
Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Gert Frobe.
A youth tries to understand life. A young poet, son of a German merchant
& an exotic mother, travels to Italy, Germany & Denmark, where
certain changes are brought about in him by the climate & his relationship
with a Slavic mistress.
PN1997.85 .T64.
THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PROD. BY SHAUN SUTTON;
DIR. BY ELIJAH MOSHINSKY; A BBC TELEVISION PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH
TIME-LIFE TELEVISION.
Part 1 on 1st cassette, parts 2 & 3 on 2nd cassette.
Alan Howard (Coriolanus), Foss Ackland (Menenius), Irene Worth (Volumnia),
Patrick Godfrey (Cominius), Peter Sands (Titus Lartius), John Burgess
(Sicinius).
A dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play about a proud Roman general
who conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his
banishment, & is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is
persuaded to spare the city.
PN1997.85 .T72.
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE / WARNER BROS. PICTURES.
Based on the novel by B. Traven.
Originally prod. as motion picture in 1948.
Screenplay, John Huston; producer, Henry Blanke; director, John Huston;
music, Max Steiner.
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett.
Greed & suspicion surround three prospectors in their search for
gold.
PN1997.85 .T74.
TROILUS & CRESSIDA / A PRODUCTION BY JONATHAN MILLER; BBC-TV
PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH TIME-LIFE TELEVISION.
Editor, Howard Dell; music, Stephan Oliver.
Anton Lesser, Suzanne Burden.
A television production of Wm. Shakespeare's play about two lovers
who mock love.
PN1997.85 .T76.
THE TROJAN WOMEN / A JOSEF SHAFTEL PRODUCTION; PROD. BY MICHAEL
CACOYANNIS, ANIS NOHRA; DIR. BY MICHAEL CACOYANNIS; SCREENPLAY BY MICHAEL
CACOYANNIS.
Based on the Edith Hamilton translation of Euripides' tragedy.
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1971.
Photography, Alfio Contini; music, Mikis Theodorakis.
Katharine Hepburn (Hecuba), Vanessa Redgrave (Andromache), Genevieve
Bujold (Cassandra), Irene Papas (Helen).
Set at the end of the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors & princes
are dead & the women & children are left to be divided among the
conquerors. An indictment against the horror & futility of war. Includes
previews of coming attracions at end.
PN1997.85 .T77.
TRUE WEST / A PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT CO. PRODUCTION; PROD. BY JOHN
H. WILLIAMS & HOWARD K. GROSSMAN; DIR. BY ALAN GOLDSTEIN.
Based on the play by Sam Shepherd.
Producers, John H. Williams, Howard K. Grossman; director, Allan
Goldstein.
John Malkovich, Gary Sinise.
A powerful & funny confrontation between two brothers set in the
contemporary West. One is a recluse who appears in his screenwriter brother's
life & turns it upside-down.
PN1997.85 .S25.
TWELFTH NIGHT / BBC-TV & TIME-LIFE TV.
Available as cassette (U standard 3/4 in. or Beta 1/2 in. or
VHS 1/2 in.).
v. 1. Pt. 1 -- v. 2. Pts. 2-3.
Producer, Cedric Messina; director, John Gorrie.
Alec McCowen, Trevor Peacock, Felicity Kendall.
Presents a dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play entitled Twelfth
night.
PN1997.85 .T83.
UGETSU / DAIEI FILM PRODUCTION.
Based on the stories: The house amid the thickets, &, The
lust of the white serpent, from Ugetsu monogatari, by Akinari Ueda; &,
How he got the legion of honor, by Guy de Maupasssant.
Videocassette release of the 1953 motion picture.
Japanese dialogue, English subtitles.
Director, Kenji Mizoguchi; producer, Masaichi Nagata; screenplay, Matsutaro
Kawaguchi, Yoshikata Yoda; photography, Kazuo Miyagawa.
Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinyo Tanka, Sakae Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito.
Two peasants in war-torn 16th-century Japan abandon their families
to seek their fortunes. In attaining his goal, each man destroys his own
life.
PN1997.85 .U44.
VANYA ON 42ND STREET / A FILM BY LOUIS MALLE; VANYA CO.
From Andre Gregory's "Vanya" based on Anton Chekhov's "Uncle
Vanya" adapted by David Mamet.
Videocassette release of the 1994 motion picture.
Prod. by Fred Berner; dir. by Louis Malle; music by Joshua Redman.
Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith, George Gaynes, Jerry Mayer, Pheobe Brand,
Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory.
David Mamet's striking new adaptation of Chekhov's drama of people
trapped between the harsh reality of their lives & the longings of
their hearts.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .V37.
WAITING TO EXHALE / 20TH-C. FOX; A DEBORAH SCHINDLER/EZRA SWERDLOW
PRODUCTION; A FOREST WHITAKER FILM; SCREENPLAY BY TERRY MCMILLAN &
RONALD BASS; PROD. BY EZRA SWERDLOW & DEBORAH SCHINDLER; DIR. BY FOREST
WHITAKER.
Based on the novel by Terry McMillan.
Originally prod. as a motion picture in 1995.
Original music, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.
Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon, Loretta Devine.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997 .W35.
WATERSHIP DOWN / PROD., WRITTEN, & DIR. BY MARTIN ROSEN.
Based on the book by Richard Adams.
Videocassette release of the 1978 motion picture.
Producer/director/screenwriter, Martin Rosen; director of animation,
Tony Guy; film editor, Terry Rawlings; music composer, Angela Morley; music
director, Marcus Dods.
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe
place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
PN1997.85 .R52.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? / WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES; SCREENPLAY,
ERNEST LEHMAN; DIRECTOR, MIKE NICHOLS.
Based on the play by Edward Albee.
Videocassette release of a theatrical motion picture from 1966 by Warner
Bros.
Producer, Ernest Lehman; director, Mike Nichols; screenplay, Ernest
Lehman; music, Alex North; photography, Haskell Wexler; editor, Sam
O'Steen.
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis.
A college professor & his wife have an all-night shouting match
in which the ferocious emotional truth of their 20-year marriage comes
out, to the embarrassment of their guests.
PN1997.85 .W372.
THE WILD DUCK / DIR. BY HENRI SAFRAN [I.E. SAFRON]; PROD. BY PHILLIP
EMANUEL; SCREENPLAY BY TUTTE LEMKOW, DIDO MERWIN, HENRI SAFRAN [I.E.
SAFRON].
Videocassette release of a motion picture from 1983.
Music, Simon Walker; photography, Peter James; editor, Don Saunders.
Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons, Lucinda Jones, Arthur Dignam, John Meillon.
A dramatization of Henrik Ibsen's play of the same title, about a middle
class family whose illusions of happiness & comfort are shattered by
the arrival of a self-proclaimed truthteller.
PN1997.85 .W375.
THE WINTER'S TALE / BY WM. SHAKESPEARE; PRODUCER, JONATHAN MILLER;
DIRECTOR, JANE HOWELL; A BBC TELEVISION PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH
TIME-LIFE TELEVISION.
Camera, Jim Atkinson; script editor, David Snodin; music, Steven Oliver,
Dudley Simpson.
Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall, Debbie Farrington, Margaret Tyzack.
Presents a dramatization of Wm. Shakespeare's play entitled The Winter's
Tale.
PN1997.85 .W46.
WOMEN IN LOVE / UNITED ARTISTS; WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN & PROD.
BY LARRY KRAMER; DIR. BY KEN RUSSELL.
Based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence.
Videocassette release of the 1969 motion picture.
Co-producer, Martin Rosen.
Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden.
A sensual investigation of the relationships of two couples, exploring
the thin line between love & lust.
PN1997.85 .W65.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS [VIDEOCASSETTE] / MOBIL MASTERPIECE THEATRE; CO-PROD.
BY LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION & WGBH/BOSTON; DIRECTOR, DAVID SKYNNER;
PRODUCER, LOUISE BERRIDGE; ADAPTED BY NEIL MCKAY.
Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, Crispin Bonham-Carter.
Composer, Warren Bennett.
Adaptation of: Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte.
The story of two generations of the Earnshaw & Linton families,
as their lives & fortunes intertwine in a complex web dominated by
the passionate relationship between doomed lovers Heathcliff & Cathy.
Closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
PN1997.85 .W85.
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