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  1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2000)

    Director
    Richard Brooks
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £7.99

    Adaptation of the play by Tennessee Williams about a feuding family living in America’s Deep South. DVD includes trailer.

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  2. Pottery Ladies (4 Parts) (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Jenny Wilkes
    Producer
    Elizabeth Taylor Mead
    Subject
    Art; Design
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    1: Describes the career of Charlotte Rhead who came from a famous family of designers and who perfected the technique of tube-lining. Mary Harper recalls her working days as a painter for Charlotte Rhead. 2:...

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  3. Ten Years in an Open-Necked Shirt: John Cooper-Clarke (1982 Film, Video)

    Director
    Nick May
    Producer
    Peter Berry; Elizabeth Taylor Mead
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (52 minutes), £50.00

    About the poet John Cooper-Clarke, who first attracted attention during the punk movement. Shows him reciting his poems to audiences, talking about his career, discussing the work of ealier poets he admires...

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  4. Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

    Director
    Elizabeth Taylor Mead
    Producer
    Jonathan Lewis
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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  5. Under Milk Wood (1971)

    Director
    Andrew Sinclair
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £17.99 (wide screen) £19.99 (definitive)

    Adaption of Dylan’ Thomas’ last play, set in the mythical Welsh village of Llareggub, following the thoughts and actions of its inhabitants during the course of a single day. Based on the radio play. The...

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  6. Doctor Faustus (1967 Video)

    Director
    Richard Burton
    Producer
    Richard Burton; Richard McWhorter
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), Euros 9.99

    Feature film starring, and co-directed by, Richard Burton, based on a production of Christopher Marlowe’s play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus at the Oxford Playhouse. Screenplay by Nevill Coghill.

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  7. Taming of the Shrew, The (1967) (1967 Film, Video)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Franco Zeffirelli; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 117 minutes), £3.99

    Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance

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  8. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965)

    Director
    Mike Nichols
    Producer
    Ernest Lehman
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £9.99

    1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor based on the Broadway play by Edward Albee, focusing on the bitter quarrels of a middle-aged couple and their effect on a young couple visiting for the...

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  9. Cleopatra (1963 Film)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    Walter Wanger
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...

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  10. Lucy Meets the Burtons (Television)

    Director
    Jerry Paris
    Producer
    Cleo Smith

    US sitcom. Guest appearances from Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Richard Burton had recently bought Taylor a 69-carat diamond ring, a gift which features prominently in the episode (Lucy gets the ring...

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