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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Director

Robert Mulligan

Producer

Alan Pakula

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99 (DVD); £17.99 (Blu-ray)

Feature film. Story of racial prejudice and injustice set in the American South. Gregory Peck plays the lawyer, widower and father of two children who stirs up hostility when he agrees to defend a black man...

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Watership Down (2001)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £9.99

An animated, film version of the novel by Richard Adams.

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Vanity Fair (2004) (2005)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 141 minutes), £19.99

A film adaptation of Thackeray’s novel, with Gabriel Byrne, Reese Witherspoon, Rhys Ifans and Romola Garai, directed by Mira Nair.

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Margot Fonteyn - A Portrait (1989 Video)

aka: Margot Fonteyn

Director

Patricia Foy

Subject

Dance

Distribution

DVD

Margot Fonteyn presents a programme on her own career, which covered forty years and made her a Dame of the British Empire and a Prima Ballerina Absoluta.

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Frankenstein (1931)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.

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Murder, My Sweet (1944)

aka: Farewell, My Lovely

Director

Edward Dmytryk

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

Raymond Chandler’s celebrated novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was turned into a classic film noir in 1944 with Dick Powell as the private eye Philip Marlowe.

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Vertigo (1958)

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 124 minutes), £4.62

Alfred Hitchcock’s dream-like story of doomed love, mental breakdown, phobia and doppelgängers stars James Stewart as a detective who suffers from a fear of heights. Hired to protect the wife of an old...

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Pride and Prejudice (2005) (2006)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 121 minutes), £19.99

Film version directed by Joe Wright. DVD special features include: The Politics of dating; the stately homes Of Pride And Prejudice; the Bennetts; the life and times of Jane Austen; on set diaries; audio...

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Watership Down (Volumes 1 and 2) (2004)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £5.99 each part (4Front)

An animated series based on the book by Richard Adams, originally broadcast in 6 episodes. Three programmes on each tape. Individual episode titles are: THE PROMISED LAND, HOME ON THE DOWN, THE EASY LIFE,...

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Sweet Charity (1969)

Director

Bob Fosse

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £5.00

A dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, is a woman whose faith in the virtues of old-fashioned romance is knocked by a string of disastrous romances. Robbed of her earnings by her absconding boyfriend,...

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