Helen Mirren At the BBC Collection - 6-DVD Box Set ( The Changeling / The Apple Cart / Caesar and Claretta / The Philanthropist / The Little Minister / The Country Wife / Blue Remembered Hills / Mrs. Reinhardt / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Cymbeline / The Hawk ) ( The Change ling / Caesar & Claretta / A Mid summer Night's Dream )

Helen Mirren At the BBC Collection - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$79.99

Original Title: The Changeling / The Apple Cart / Caesar and Claretta / The Philanthropist / The Little Minister / The Country Wife / Blue Remembered Hills / Mrs. Reinhardt / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Cymbeline / The Hawk
Alternate Title: The Change ling / Caesar & Claretta / A Mid summer Night's Dream
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
1129 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1974 - 1995 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Anthony Page
Cedric Messina
Claude Whatham
Stuart Burge
Donald McWhinnie
Brian Gibson
Piers Haggard
Elijah Moshinsky
David Hayman

Written By:
Thomas Middleton
William Rowley
George Bernard Shaw
Claude Whatham
Christopher Hampton
J.M. Barrie
William Wycherley
Dennis Potter
Edna O'Brien
William Shakespeare
Peter Ransley

Actors:
Stanley Baker ..... De Flores
Helen Mirren ..... Beatrice-Joanna
Brian Cox ..... Alsemero
Alan Webb ..... Vermandero
T.P. McKenna ..... Tomazo de Piracquo
George Camiller ..... Pedro
Kenneth Cranham ..... Antonio
Raymond Francis ..... Alibius
Joyce Graeme ..... Madwoman
Lionel Guyett ..... Servant
Susan Penhaligon ..... Isabella
Malcolm Reynolds ..... Alonzo de Piracquo
Marika Rivera ..... Madwoman
Norman Rossington ..... Lollio
Tony Selby ..... Jasperino
Frances Tomelty ..... Diaphanta
Nigel Davenport ..... King Magnus
Helen Mirren ..... Orinthia
Prunella Scales ..... Queen Jemima
Beryl Reid ..... Amanda
Joyce Grant ..... Powermistress Lysistrata
Bill Fraser ..... Boanerges
Peter Barkworth ..... Prime Minister Joe Proteus
Griffith Jones ..... Foreign Secretary
Trevor Baxter ..... Colonial Secretary
Reg Pritchard ..... Chancellor of the Exchequer
Thorley Walters ..... Home Secretary
Simon Lack ..... Pamphilius
James Leith ..... Sempronius
Bernard Taylor ..... American Ambassador
Deborah Makepeace ..... Princess Royal Alice
Maurice Badi ..... Boy 1
Oliver Cotton ..... Giacomo
Robert Hardy ..... Benito Mussolini
Nick Llewellyn ..... Lino
Gina Manicom ..... Lia
Gary McDermott ..... Neri
Helen Mirren ..... Claretta Petacci
Robin Scobey ..... Pedro
Stephen Tate ..... Cantoni
Paul Tropea ..... Boy 2
Donald Webster ..... Valerio
James Bolam ..... Don
Charles Gray ..... Braham
Colin Higgins ..... John
Monica Kendall ..... Student
Amanda Knott ..... Liz
Helen Mirren ..... Celia
Jacqueline Pearce ..... Araminta
Ronald Pickup ..... Philip
Helen Mirren ..... Babbie
Ian Ogilvy ..... Rev. Gavin Dishart
Peter Barkworth ..... Earl of Rintoul
Bill Simpson ..... Rob Dow
Anne Kristen ..... Jean
Nicholas Jones ..... Captain Halliwell
David Bailie ..... Sergeant Davidson
John Moffatt ..... Andrew Mealmaker
Robert James ..... Snecky Hobart
Margaret Inglis ..... Nanny Webster
Simon Lack ..... Thomas Whamond
Michael McKevitt ..... Joe Cruikshanks
Jonathan Scott ..... Silva Tosh
Hilda Kriseman ..... Felice
Joseph McKenna ..... Micah Dow
John Aston ..... Thwaites
Helen Mirren ..... Margery Pinchwife
Amanda Barrie ..... Mrs. Squeamish
Bernard Cribbins ..... Pinchwife
Anthony Andrews ..... Horner
Adrienne Corri ..... Lady Fidget
Ciaran Madden ..... Alithea
John Nettleton ..... Sir Jasper Fidget
Michael Cochrane ..... Sparkish
Jeremy Clyde ..... Harcourt
Ann Beach ..... Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Sarah Porter ..... Lucy
Leslie Sarony ..... Quack
Phil Daniels ..... Boy
Colin Welland ..... Willie
Michael Elphick ..... Peter
Robin Ellis ..... John
John Bird ..... Raymond
Helen Mirren ..... Angela
Janine Duvitski ..... Audrey
Colin Jeavons ..... Donald Duck
Dennis Potter ..... Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Lucy Aston
Ralph Bates ..... Mr. Reinhardt
Brad Davis ..... Young American
Kate Ingram
Nancy Nevinson
Jean Rougerie
Madelon Violla
Estelle Kohler ..... Hippolyta
Nigel Davenport ..... Theseus
Hugh Quarshie ..... Philostrate
Geoffrey Lumsden ..... Egeus
Pippa Guard ..... Hermia
Nicky Henson ..... Demetrius
Robert Lindsay ..... Lysander
Cherith Mellor ..... Helena
Geoffrey Palmer ..... Quince
Brian Glover ..... Bottom
John Fowler ..... Flute
Don Estelle ..... Starveling
Nat Jackley ..... Snout
Ray Mort ..... Snug
Phil Daniels ..... Puck
Richard Johnson ..... Cymbeline
Hugh Thomas ..... Cornelius
Aimée Delamain ..... Gentlewoman
Claire Bloom ..... Queen
Helen Mirren ..... Imogen
Michael Pennington ..... Posthumus
John Kane ..... Pisanio
Nicholas Young ..... Lord
Paul Jesson ..... Cloten
Robert Lindsay ..... Iachimo
Geoffrey Lumsden ..... Philario
Patsy Smart ..... Helen
Allan Hendrick ..... Frenchman
Nigel Robson ..... Singer
Terence McGinity ..... British Captain
Daryl Webster ..... Woman Driver
Thomas Taplin ..... Boy in Car
Joshua Taplin ..... Boy in Car
David Harewood ..... Sergeant Streete
Clive Russell ..... Chief Inspector Daybury
Pooky Quesnel ..... WPC Clarke
Marie Hamer ..... Jackie Marsh
Helen Mirren ..... Annie Marsh
Christopher Madin ..... Matthew Marsh
George Costigan ..... Stephen Marsh
Rosemary Leach ..... Mrs. Marsh
Owen Teale ..... Ken Marsh
Melanie Hill ..... Norma
Helen Ryan ..... Mrs. Crowther
John Duttine ..... John

Synopsis:

The Changeling (1974)
The Changeling features Helen Mirren in one of her first breakout performances, as tragic heroine Beatrice-Joanna.

The Apple Cart (1975)
In Bernard Shaw's 1929 play, set forty years in the future, the king must match wits with an unruly mistress...

Caesar and Claretta (1975)
Robert Hardy and Helen Mirren star as Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci in this dramatization of their last night together....

The Philanthropist (1975)
Philip, his fiancee Celia (Mirren), and their circle of friends talk philogy, playwriting and everything in between...

The Little Minister (1975)
Helen Mirren plays Babbie, a mysterious young gypsy girl who incites a Luddie riot in rural 1840s Scotland.

The Country Wife (1977)
Horner, a first-class rake, devises a brilliant scheme to lure in the fine married ladies of London society...

Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
On a sunny English afternoon in 1943, with the end of World War Ii still two years away, seven children play in the Forest of Dean.

Mrs. Reinhardt (1981)
Helen Mirren stars as the recently separated Mrs. Reinhardt who meets a charming American during her trip to the south of France.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
The feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24 with merrymaking.

Cymbeline (1983)
The daughter of the ruler of ancient Britain finds herself wronged, banished and the victim of attempted murder...

The Hawk (1995)
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer.

The Changeling (1974)
The Changeling features Helen Mirren in one of her first breakout performances, as tragic heroine Beatrice-Joanna. Betrothed to Lord Alonzo De Piraquo, Beatrice-Joanna finds herself in love with nobleman Alsemero instead. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, Beatrice-Joanna engages the services of villainous De Flores, her father's manservant, to murder Alonzo. Completely smitten with his master's daughter, De Flores eagerly agrees to Beatrice-Joanna's idea. After killing Alonzo, De Flores cuts off the man's finger and presents it to his love. Horrified at what she had done, Beatrice-Joanna realizes too late that De Flores requires her body, not money, as his reward. Before lone, Beatrice-Joanna finds herself involved in a desperate attempt to cover her initial transgression and is forced to confront its consequences.

The Apple Cart (1975)
In Bernard Shaw's 1929 play, set forty years in the future, the king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy. Over the course of the two acts and interlude, he navigates a series of political challenges and verbally spars with his mistress Orinthia, played by Helen Mirren. Mirren's Orinthia is pampered, devastatingly beautiful, and every bit the intellectual match of her royal lover. Even though she doesn't appear until after the first act, Mirren more than makes up for her earlier absence with a drawing room scene that can be considered the highlight of the play.

Caesar and Claretta (1975)
Robert Hardy and Helen Mirren star as Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci in this dramatization of their last night together, locked in a small peasant cottage. Having admired Mussolini since she was a schoolgirl, Claretta finally had a chance to meet the Italian leader at the age of 24. For the next 10 years she was Mussolini's official mistress, and was the only woman with him when they and a group of supporters were captured by Communist partisans during an escape attempt. On April 28, 1945, Mussolini and Petacci were shot by their captors. Even though Claretta was offered her freedom, she refused to leave her lover, a touching declaration of a woman's love despite the dubious reputation of the object of her affections.

The Philanthropist (1975)
This play by Christopher Hampton (Les Liasons Dangereuse) offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its well-heeled characters. Philip, his fiancee Celia (Mirren), and their circle of friends talk philogy, playwriting and everything in between during the course of a dinner party. Despite the fact that seismic events are unfolding in the world around them, their conversation turns to the usual. Strangely enough, news of the collapse of the government and its violent aftermath doesn't perturb anyone, although a hit list from an organization called F.A.T.A.L. targeting 'twenty-five of the most eminent English writers' does elicit a slight reaction from dinner guest and novelist Braham Head, who isn't sure whether to be 'relieved or insulted' not to find himself on the list. However, despite the reactions (or lack thereof) to outside events, the party is not without drama of its own. As the evening progresses, couples form and love blooms...just not in the expected ways.

The Little Minister (1975)
In this adaptation of the J.M. Barrie novel, Helen Mirren plays Babbie, a mysterious young gypsy girl who incites a Luddie riot in rural 1840s Scotland. Drawn into this even is Gavin Dishart, the new ""little minister"" of Thrums's Auld Licht church who accidentally happens upon the riot. The unlikely pair fall in love. But before the two can declare their love, they must overcome her secret, Gavin's bond to his religious beliefs, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities.

The Country Wife (1977)
Horner, a first-class rake, devises a brilliant scheme to lure in the fine married ladies of London society under their husbands' noses. But Horner soon meets his match when he becomes involved with Margery Pinchwife (Mirren), an innocent newlywed from the country. The Country Wife is filled with the wit and humor that are typical of Restoration comedy, and it is considered one of the best from that period.

Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
On a sunny English afternoon in 1943, with the end of World War Ii still two years away, seven children play in the Forest of Dean. However, their innocent and carefree day suddenly turns deadly when a harmless prank goes horribly wrong. This Dennis Potter play is traditionally cast with adult actors as the children, and Helen Mirren fully engages in her character as pigtailed Angela.

Mrs. Reinhardt (1981)
Helen Mirren stars as the recently separated Mrs. Reinhardt who meets a charming American during her trip to the south of France. Having fled from her adulterous husband with a necklace as the only thing of value, Mrs. Reinhardt is finding her new situation at a secluded hotel in Brittany most satisfying. Even better, during an outing she meets a young American named Steve, whose brash personality lifts her spirits. They begin a passionate affair, but when his demeanor suddenly changes, Mrs. Reinhardt must face the crumbling of her illusion yet again.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
This play gets its title from the name of a British holiday called Midsummer Day, the feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24 with merrymaking. On Midsummer Night, witches, goblins, and fairies materialized to hold a festival of their own. Shakespeare's play capitalizes on the magic of the occasion. Set in Athens, it begins when Duke Theseus orders gala ceremonies for his coming marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. But domestic strife intrudes upon the gay atmosphere when one of the duke's subjects, Hermia, chooses Lysander as her future husband over her father Egeus' choice, Demetrius. Theseus reminds Hermia of a law requiring her to obey her father or face death or banishment. Hermia and Lysander then escape to the woods. There, tradesmen are rehearsing a play for the duke's wedding. Demetrius, the rejected suitor, searches the woods for Hermia, while another young lady, Helena, follows him, praying that he will bestow his love on her instead of Hermia. Also in the woods are fairies gathered to bless the duke's wedding. Oberon, the fairy king, argues violently with his queen, Titania, after she refuses to give him a boy he wants as a servant. In retaliation, Oberon orders a fairy named Puck to concoct a potion of flower juice, which, when squeezed on Titania's eyelids, will enamor her of the first creature she sees -- whether animal or man. Witnessing the love problems of Helena and Demetrius, Oberon decides a dose of flower juice will do them good. But because of mischief and mixups, Puck's potion anoints indiscriminately, and everyone temporarily falls in love with the wrong person. Titania ends up with bumpkin Bottom, a tradesman wearing the head of an ass. Eventually, remedial magic rights the wrongs and a triple wedding takes place.

Cymbeline (1983)
The daughter of the ruler of ancient Britain finds herself wronged, banished and the victim of attempted murder after she refuses to marry her evil stepmother's idiot son.

The Hawk (1995)
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.

Set Comprises:
1. The Changling (1974)
2. The Apple Cart (1975)
3. Caesar & Claretta (1975)
4. The Philanthropist (1975)
5. The Little Minister (1975)
6. The Country Wife (1977)
7. Blue Remembered Hill (1979)
8. Mrd Reinhardt (1981)
9. A Midsummer Nights Dream (1981)
10. Cymbeline (1983)
11. The Hawk (1995)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 January, 2012.