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  1. Farewell to Arms, A (1957) (1990)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £5.99

    A screen adaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway, directed by Charles Vidor.

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  2. Miss Julie (1987 Video)

    Director
    Michael Simpson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A television production of the Strindberg play. Miss Julie (Janet McTeer), the aristocratic daughter of a count, breaks off her engagement to a weak fiancé. Seeking consolation, she throws herself at her...

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  3. To Be or Not to Be (1983) (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    Alan Johnson; Mel Brooks
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) with Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft in the roles originally played by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.

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  4. Porky’s II: The Next Day (1983 Film)

    Director
    Bob Clark (2)
    Producer
    Bob Clark (2); Don Carmody

    Feature film. When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage ‘An Evening With Shakespeare’, their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker (Parsons), who views the works of Shakespeare as...

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  5. Willie and Phil (1980 Film)

    aka: Willie and Phil

    Director
    Paul Mazursky
    Producer
    Paul Mazursky; Tony Ray

    Feature film strongly referencing Truffaut’s JULES ET JIM (1961) and satirising life and culture in 1970s America. Phil d’Amico (Sharkey) is an American photographer and Willie Kaufman (Onstein) is a...

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  6. Julia (1977 Film)

    Director
    Fred Zinnemann
    Producer
    Richard Roth

    Feature film. Concerns the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman (Fonda) and Julia (Redgrave), a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while...

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  7. Harry and Tonto (1974 Film)

    Director
    Paul Mazursky
    Producer
    Paul Mazursky
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...

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  8. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969) (1969)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £16.99

    Oscar winning adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novel starring Maggie Smith in the title role as the charismatic and independently minded school teacher whose complicated love life and fascination with fascism...

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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. Prince of Players (1955 Film)

    Director
    Philip Dunne
    Producer
    Philip Dunne
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film. Richard Burton portrays Edwin Booth, the 19th century American actor. Booth is helped to success by his wife, Mary. When his brother, John Wilkes, assassinates President Lincoln, Edwin faces...

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