Hard times [videorecording] / BBC Schools presents ; by Charles Dickens ; produced by Richard Langridge ; adapted & directed by Peter Barnes.
Langridge, Richard.; Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004.; Bates, Alan, 1934-2003.; Peck, Bob, 1945-1999.; Paterson, Bill, 1945-; Walter, Harriet.; Grant, Richard E., 1957-; Deutsch, Stephen, 1945-; Elliott, Denholm.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times.; BBC School Television.; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; WGBH Educational Foundation.; BBC Video (Firm); 2 Entertain Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm)
2009
PR4561.A2 B37 2009
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Title
Hard times [videorecording] / BBC Schools presents ; by Charles Dickens ; produced by Richard Langridge ; adapted & directed by Peter Barnes.
Uniform Title
Hard times (Television program : 1994)
ISBN
1419880810 (set)
9781419880810 (set)
9781419880810 (set)
Publication Details
[England] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2009.
Language
English
Language Note
Closed captioned.
Description
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Item Number
883929068128
Call Number
PR4561.A2 B37 2009
Distributor No.
3000021467 BBC Video
Summary
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
Note
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
"A BBC TV production in association with WGBH"--Container.
Special feature: The signalman / starring Denholm Elliott.
"A BBC TV production in association with WGBH"--Container.
Special feature: The signalman / starring Denholm Elliott.
Credits
Photography, Rex Maidment; editor, Robin Graham Scott; music composed by Stephen Deutsch.
Performer
Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant.
Cast
Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant.
Time and Place of Event
Originally released as a television movie in 1994.
System Details Note
DVD, region 1, NTSC; DVD9; Dolby Digital mono; aspect ratio 4:3.
Added Author
Added Corporate Author
Series
Charles Dickens collection ; 1.
BBC Video classics.
BBC Video classics.
Includes
Signalman.
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