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Reckoning, The (1970)

Director

Jack Gold

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

A ruthless business executive returns home to his Liverpool roots to investigate his father’s death. Described by Sight & Sound’s deputy editor Kieron Corles as a ‘potent character...

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Uma and the Fairy Queen (2003 Radio)

Series

Saturday Play

Director

Marc Beeby

Producer

Marc Beeby

Radio crime drama by Mahes Dattani. Bangalore female detective Uma Rao is drawn into a murder investigation when Michael Forsyth, leading actor from a visiting Shakespeare company from London, is kidnapped...

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Master of the Stage, A (195 Film)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A leading Bulgarian actor, Constantin Kisimov, in excerpts from a number of plays; examples of Stanislavski method acting.

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The Man of a Thousand Faces

Date released

9 Sep 1926

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

275

NoS ID

331499

Story no

2 / 5

NoS Summary - Mr Huntley Wright famous comedian, in samples of make-up. NoS synopsis: Title card reads: "A camera interview with Mr Huntley Wright the Comedian". "Many of the older Theatre-goers remember...

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Old Actor, The (1912 Film)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...

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Letter to Brezhnev (1985)

Director

Chris Bernard

Subject

Politics & government; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B)

One of the key British films of the 1980s, ‘Letter to Brezhnev’ is set against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Liverpool’s club scene, one-night stands and a Europe still in the grip of the Cold War.

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Sir John Martin-Harvey now appearing in "The Only Way"

Date released

1 Dec 1921

Series name

Around The Town

Issue no

105

NoS ID

329995

Story no

5 / 6

Summary - Sir John Martin Harvey screen interview from the Lyceum Theatre, London. NoS synopsis: ‘Sir John Martin-Harvey now appearing in "The Only Way"' intertitle with a cartoon of a man standing before...

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This Sporting Life (1963 Video)

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £12.99

One of the most notable films from cinema’s British "New Wave" phase. It is director Lindsay Anderson’s multi-award winning, gritty and powerful northern drama, featuring a breakout performance from...

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Atv Today [07/02/1979] (1979 Television)

aka: Black Actor Don Warrington Plays Mark Antony

Series

Atv Today

Regional television news item. Black actor Don Warrington is playing Mark Antony at the Nottingham Playhouse. The MACE catalogue entry states this is the first time a black actor has played the role. There...

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Frost on Coward (2012)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £6.99

This recording of a conversation between actor, composer and singer Noel Coward and David Frost was recorded at the Mayfair Theatre in September 1968, and covers current affairs, Coward’s life and his...

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