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Kind of Loving, A (1962 Video)

Director

John Schlesinger

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD

Adaptation of the novel by Stan Barstow depicting the grim life of a young Lancashire couple.

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Quare Fellow, The (1962 Video)

Director

Arthur Dreifuss

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 90 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

Film adaptation of Brendan Behan’s play. Patrick McGoohan plays a young warder whose attitude to capital punishment is rapidly changed by the preparations for an execution.

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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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Bad Sleep Well, The (1960 Film)

aka: The Bad Sleep Well

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Producer

Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £8.99

Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...

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Throne of Blood (1957 Film, Video)

aka: Throne of Blood

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Producer

Akira Kurosawa

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...

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Human Desire (1954)

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Adapted from the same Emile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in La BETE HUMAINE (1938), Lang’s startlingly dark, late film noir reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria...

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Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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Outcast of the Islands (1951)

Director

Carol Reed

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

A vivid and stormy film from 1951 based on a Joseph Conrad novel and directed by Carol Reed.

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Queen of Spades, The (1948)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)

Director

St John Legh Clowes

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 99 minutes), £15.99

One of the most controversial British films ever produced, this lurid crime drama caused an unprecedented storm of controversy upon release: local councils banned it, the Bishop of London denounced it, and...

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