Literary Adaptations Britain Collection - 5-DVD Set ( Orlando / Sons and Lovers / Tess / A Handful of Dust / The Innocents ) ( Orlando / Sons & Lovers / Tess / Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust / The Turn of the Screw )

Literary Adaptations Britain Collection - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Orlando / Sons and Lovers / Tess / A Handful of Dust / The Innocents
Alternate Title: Orlando / Sons & Lovers / Tess / Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust / The Turn of the Screw
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
David Donatello Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
567 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1960 - 1992 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sally Potter
Jack Cardiff
Roman Polanski
Charles Sturridge
Jack Clayton

Written By:
Sally Potter
Virginia Woolf
Gavin Lambert
T.E.B. Clarke
Gérard Brach
Roman Polanski
Tim Sullivan
Derek Granger
Henry James
John Mortimer

Actors:
Tilda Swinton ..... Orlando
Billy Zane ..... Shelmerdine
Quentin Crisp ..... Queen Elizabeth I
John Bott ..... Orlando's Father
Elaine Banham ..... Orlando's Mother
Anna Farnworth ..... Clorinda
Sara Mair-Thomas ..... Favilla
Anna Healy ..... Euphrosyne
Dudley Sutton ..... King James I
Simon Russell Beale ..... Earl of Moray
Matthew Sim ..... Lord Francis Vere
Jerome Willis ..... Translator
Viktor Stepanov ..... Russian Ambassador
Charlotte Valandrey ..... Princess Sasha
Mary MacLeod ..... First Older Woman
Trevor Howard ..... Walter Morel
Dean Stockwell ..... Paul Morel
Wendy Hiller ..... Mrs. Morel
Mary Ure ..... Clara Dawes
Heather Sears ..... Miriam
William Lucas ..... William Morel
Conrad Phillips ..... Baxter Dawes
Ernest Thesiger ..... Mr. Hadlock
Donald Pleasence ..... Pappleworth
Rosalie Crutchley ..... Mrs. Leivers
Sean Barrett ..... Arthur Morel
Elizabeth Begley ..... Mrs. Radford
Edna Morris ..... Mrs. Anthony
Ruth Kettlewell ..... Mrs. Bonner
Anne Sheppard ..... Rose
John Collin ..... John Durbeyfield
Tony Church ..... Parson Tringham
Nastassja Kinski ..... Tess
Brigid Erin Bates ..... Girl in meadow
Jeanne Biras ..... Girl in meadow
Peter Firth ..... Angel Clare
John Bett ..... Felix Clare
Tom Chadbon ..... Cuthbert Clare
Rosemary Martin ..... Mrs. Durbeyfield
Geraldine Arzul ..... Child
Stephanie Treille ..... Child
Elodie Warnod ..... Child
Ben Reeks ..... Child
Leigh Lawson ..... Alec d'Urberville
Lesley Dunlop ..... Girl in henhouse
James Wilby ..... Tony Last
Kristin Scott Thomas ..... Brenda Last
Rupert Graves ..... John Beaver
Anjelica Huston ..... Mrs. Rattery
Judi Dench ..... Mrs. Beaver
Alec Guinness ..... Mr. Todd
Richard Beale ..... Ben
Jackson Kyle ..... John Andrew
Norman Lumsden ..... Ambrose
Jeanne Watts ..... Nanny
Kate Percival ..... Miss Ripon
Richard Leech ..... Doctor
Roger Milner ..... Vicar
Tristram Jellinek ..... Richard Last
Pip Torrens ..... Jock
Deborah Kerr ..... Miss Giddens
Peter Wyngarde ..... Peter Quint
Megs Jenkins ..... Mrs. Grose
Michael Redgrave ..... The Uncle
Martin Stephens ..... Miles
Pamela Franklin ..... Flora
Clytie Jessop ..... Miss Jessel
Isla Cameron ..... Anna

Synopsis:

Orlando (1992)
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex.

Sons and Lovers (1960)
Story of a mining town youth at the turn of the century, who is torn between physical love and devotion to his mother.

Tess (1979)
A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into the arms of one.

A Handful of Dust (1998)
The arrival of idle, penniless John Beaver, has a disastrous effect on the marriage of Tony and Brenda Last.

The Innocents (1961)
Only hours before the case is legally closed, an insurance agent reinvestigates the fire that destroyed "Clayton and Cavanaugh", a rare books shop. In a series of flashbacks, Clayton painfully relives the arson he has successfully concealed for seven years.

Orlando (1992)
Orlando, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love, poetry, a place in society and a meaning in life, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest, accompanied by the features of 'noble' English life with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person, let alone his sex. Orlando, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life, love, and approaching one's own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and haven't aged a day, finding humanity's forgotten need for androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughter's. Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando not only tells the story on film with brilliant visual design, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century.

Sons and Lovers (1960)
The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't expect a thoroughly frank and faithful adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel. Set in an English mining town, the film focuses on Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell), the sensitive son of a roughhewn, alcoholic miner (Trevor Howard) and his gentle, repressed wife (Wendy Hiller). Intent on becoming an artist, Paul is not above depending upon the financial kindnesses of the young women of the town. Many of the girls carry a torch for him, but his strong bonds to his mother leave him emotionally sapped. Freddie Francis's evocative, grimy industrial-town cinematography won him an Academy Award. Despite censorial restrictions, this admirably captures the essence of the dour Lawrence original.

Tess (1979)
In the Victorian period, a rural clergyman tells John Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Uberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful 'cousin' and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually, Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess also takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel Claire.

A Handful of Dust (1998)
We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story begins. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his enormous estate with their young son. Tony's not much for parties, and Brenda joins London society, on the arm of a penniless man, John Beaver, a hanger-on at Tony's club. John is encouraged by his entrepreneurial mother, who sees a quid in Tony and Brenda. Brenda and John become lovers, Brenda spends more and more time in London, and Tony's without a clue. Then, bringing things to a head are tragedy, law suits, greed, and what should be a few-months' expedition to Brazil. We are each of us merely a handful of dust.

The Innocents (1961)
In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess Miss Jessel and valet Peter Quint are possessing the children. Miss Giddens decides to help the children to face and exorcise the spirits.

Five film adaptations of classic novels from Britain's finest authors is one unprecedented collection! With names like D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, these are classic novels transformed into classic cinema by some of the world's greatest filmmakers including Sally Potter, Roman Polanski and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Orlando
Sons & lovers
Tess
A Handful Of Dust
The Innocents

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