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  1. Loot (1970 Film, Video)

    Director
    Silvio Narizzano
    Producer
    Arthur Lewis
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A frantic black farce adapted by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson from Joe Orton’s stage play. Set in England, a crook hides his mother’s body and uses the coffin to carry the proceeds of a robbery.

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  2. Three Sisters (1970)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    John Goldstone
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £19.99

    A feature film version of the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Budberg, with music by William Walton, based on the 1967 National Theatre production of the play. Two fantasy sequences are added for...

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  3. Go-Between, The (1970)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 118 minutes), £9.99

    Film adaptation of LP Hartley’s novel with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, direction by Joseph Losey and starring Alan Bates ands Julie Christie.

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  4. Satyricon (1969 Video)

    Director
    Federico Fellini
    Producer
    Alberto Grimaldi
    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 124 min., 1996 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

    Less an adaptation of Petronius’ tales than a free-form fantasia on his themes, showing the decadence of Rome in Nero’s reign.

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  5. Woodstock (1969 Video)

    Director
    Michael Wadleigh
    Producer
    Bob Maurice
    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 177 min.

    Film based on the popular music festival held in Bethel New York, in August 1969, attented by half a million hippies.

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  6. 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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  7. Kiss Me Kate (1953 Film, Video)

    Director
    George Sidney
    Producer
    Jack Cummings
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Film (and 3D) adaptation of the Broadway musical in which the leading players in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew are a married couple whose private life resembles their on-stage roles. With...

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  8. His Kind of Woman (1951 Film)

    Director
    John Farrow; Richard Fleischer
    Producer
    Robert Sparks; Howard Hughes (2)

    Feature film. Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts $5,000 to fly to a remote resort in Mexico for purposes undisclosed. On arrival, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing...

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  9. Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1932 and 1941) (1932 Video)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes (combined)), £12.99

    Two cinematic versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson horror story, one starring Fredric March and the other Spencer Tracy.

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  10. Jazz Singer, The (1927) (1927)

    Subject
    Film studies; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes ), £19.99

    THE JAZZ SINGER was heralded as the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue and musical sequences. The movie, which brought Broadway superstar Al Jolson "alive" and seemingly singing from the...

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