Great British Drama - 3-Disc Box Set ( Upstairs Downstairs / Jane Eyre / Tess of the D'Urbervilles )

Great British Drama - 3-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Upstairs Downstairs / Jane Eyre / Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
552 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Behind the scenes
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 - 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Euros Lyn
Anthony Byrne
Robert Young
David Blair

Written By:
Eileen Atkins
John Hawkesworth
Charlotte Brontë
Richard Hawley
Thomas Hardy
David Nicholls

Actors:
Keeley Hawes ..... Lady Agnes Holland
Ed Stoppard ..... Sir Hallam Holland
Adrian Scarborough ..... Mr. Warwick Pritchard
Neil Jackson ..... Harry Spargo
Anne Reid ..... Mrs. Clarice Thackeray
Claire Foy ..... Lady Persephone Towyn
Art Malik ..... Mr. Amanjit Singh
Blake Ritson ..... The Duke of Kent
Nico Mirallegro ..... Johnny Proude
Laura Haddock ..... Beryl Ballard
Ami Metcalf ..... Eunice McCabe
Jean Marsh ..... Mrs. Rose Buck (5 episodes, 2010-2012)
Alex Kingston ..... Dr. Blanche Mottershead
Ken Bones ..... Lord Halifax
Sarah Gordy ..... Pamela Holland (4 episodes, 2010-2012)
Alexia James ..... Lotte Perlmutter (4 episodes, 2010-2012)
Deborah Findlay ..... Mrs. Reed
Laura Harling ..... Young Jane
Joanna Scanlan ..... Bessie
Ben Sowden ..... John Reed
Barbara Keogh ..... Miss Abbot
David Gant ..... Mr. Brocklehurst
Emily Joyce ..... Miss Temple
Gemma Eglinton ..... Helen Burns
Ruth Mitchell ..... Miss Scatchered
Dominique Belcourt ..... Anna
Samantha Morton ..... Jane Eyre
Gemma Jones ..... Mrs. Fairfax
Timia Berthome ..... Adele
Hermione Gulliford ..... Sophie
Ciarán Hinds ..... Edward Rochester
Gemma Arterton ..... Tess Durbeyfield
Eddie Redmayne ..... Angel Clare
Ruth Jones ..... Joan Durbeyfield
Hans Matheson ..... Alec D'Urberville
Ian Puleston-Davies ..... John Durbeyfield
Christopher Fairbank ..... Groby
Jo Woodcock ..... Liza-Lu Durbeyfield
Steven Robertson ..... Cuthbert Clare
Hugh Skinner ..... Felix Clare
Jodie Whittaker ..... Izzy Huett
Kenneth Cranham ..... Mr Clare
Donald Sumpter ..... Parson Tringham
Rebekah Staton ..... Marion
Jessica Turner ..... Mrs Clare
Jeany Spark ..... Mercy Chant
Joel Rowbottom ..... Abraham Durbeyfield
Christine Bottomley ..... Kate (3 episodes, 2008)
Emma Stansfield ..... Mary (3 episodes, 2008)
Emily Beecham ..... Retty Priddle
Trevor Cooper ..... Mr Crick
Sally Bankes ..... Mrs Crick

Synopsis:

Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
In 1936, Sir Hallam Holland and his pretty young wife Lady Agnes return from a diplomatic posting abroad and take up residence at 165 Eaton Place, formerly the home of the Bellamy family but vacant for several years.

Jane Eyre (1997)
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
Alec D'Urberville successfully seduces farmer's daughter Tess Durbeyfield, who ends up fleeing home dishonored. While doing menial job on a farm, she falls in true love with well-born cleric in training Angel Clare, who proposes although above her known station. In fact she belongs to an impoverished branch of nobility, but when her past catches up she leaves Angel, who emigrates. Later, he returns and they are reunited, but only for their ultimate tragedy.

Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Season 1
The Fledgling
S1, Ep1 Dec. 26, 2010
Sir Hallam Holland and his wife Agnes join his controlling mother, Lady Maud, returned from India after 30 years and reopen 165 Eaton Place.

The Ladybird
S1, Ep2 Dec. 27, 2010
Persie becomes romantically involved with Spargo, who in turn involves her with the Facist movement much to the distress of the family's new Jewish maid.

The Cuckoo
S1, Ep3 Dec. 28, 2010
Persie begins to develop a relationship with Ribbentrop, the King decides to abdicate, Lotta continues to be traumatized and Hellam discovers he has a sister.

Season 2
A Faraway Country About Which We Know Nothing
S2, Ep1 Feb. 19, 2012
1938:- Lady Maude has died and Pamela has come to live at Eaton Place as has Blanche Mottershead,Maude's half-sister,an archaeologist who came for the funeral and seems likely to stay indefinitely. Nursemaid Beryl is employed to help Lady Agnes with her new baby and the household prepares for another war in the wake of Chamberlain's seemingly futile talks with Hitler. Pritchard is in his element as an air raid warden but falls foul of Great War widow Mrs Thackeray and Mr Amanjit when they learn from police sergeant Ashworth that the butler was a conscientious objector...

The Love That Pays the Price
S2, Ep2 Feb. 26, 2012
After being told it is dangerous for her to have more children Lady Agnes joins her husband in entertaining American ambassador Kennedy and his family along with charming Jewish self-made millionaire Caspar Landry. Pritchard's pomposity forces Mrs Thackeray to resign and move in with relations,though they are unappreciative of her excessive cuisine and she returns to Eaton Place. Mr Amanjit and Blanche combine to help in the organization of rescuing Jewish children from Germany whilst Lady Persie,having seen its brutality first hand,ends her flirtation with Naziism ...

A Perfect Specimen of Womanhood
S2, Ep3 Mar. 4, 2012
Blanche is discomforted when married authoress Portia Alresford publishes a spicy best seller 'The Golden Blaze',a thinly disguised account of their lesbian affair. Their true identities are exposed in the press,angering Sir Hallam and dividing staff opinion and,whilst Portia wants the affair to resume,Blanche knows that this can never be. Lady Agnes,keen to assume more child care duties,annoys Beryl by switching her job to housemaid,giving both her and kitchen maid Eunice more work to do. Beryl goes to staff agency,the Girls' Friendly Society, whose Miss Poulson ...

All the Things You Are
S2, Ep4 Mar. 11, 2012
After Caspar Landry turns up to her charity lunch Lady Agnes visits his factory and,when the hired mannequin fails to show,ends up modelling his stockings for an advertising campaign,to the annoyance of Sir Hallam. To impress Beryl Harry enters for the Belgravia servants boxing competition but the organizer is more taken by young Johnny's fighting skills and the boy progresses to the amateur welter weight finals but walks out after the promoter makes a pass at him. Harry takes his place and wins the title and the admiration of Beryl but Hallam brawls with Landry,who ...

The Last Waltz
S2, Ep5 Mar. 18, 2012
With war inevitable and her marriage in ruins Lady Agnes takes her children to the countryside,leaving her husband to carry on with her sister,an affair which soon becomes noticed downstairs. Harry and Beryl get engaged and plan to emigrate to America though Beryl almost backs out when she learns of her boyfriend's fling with Persie. Harry blackmails Sir Hallam into giving him the money for the passage in return for keeping quiet about his affair with his sister-in-law. Pritchard forms a romance with lady's maid Violet Whisset when they are chosen to organize the ...

Somewhere Over the Rainbow
S2, Ep6 Mar. 25, 2012
Suspecting Persie of passing on information to the Germans Sir Hallam ends their affair and joins his wife in trying to sober up Pritchard,who soon afterwards goes missing. Rose tells Johnnie that the butler is a reformed alcoholic,clearly ashamed of his lapse. Casper visits Lady Agnes to tell her he is returning to the States by which time Sir Hallam is aware of Persie's treachery just as Lady Agnes is of the affair. With nobody to support her Persie kills herself before she can be arrested. Beryl and Harry get married,planning to emigrate to America and Pritchard ...

Jane Eyre (1997)
This made-for-TV feature was the tenth screen adaptation of the classic Gothic romance by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre (Samantha Morton, who two years later would earn an Oscar nomination for her performance in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown) grew up an orphan under trying circumstances, but through hard work and determination, she has gained an education and is employed as a governess at the Thornfield Hall estate. Jane quickly falls in love with the brooding and secretive owner of Thornfield, Mr. Rochester (Ciaran Hinds). He soon falls for her as well, but before they can reach the altar, a number of shocking secrets threaten to destroy their romance. This version of Jane Eyre made its American debut on the A&E Cable Network.'

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
In the late 19th century, Tess Durbeyfield is sent off to visit a rich cousin, Alec D'Urberville, when her parents learn learn that they are distantly related. Tess takes a disliking to the man and his attempts at seduction are rebuffed. Returning from a village party he forces himself on the innocent girl who eventually makes her way back to her parents' home. Ashamed and pregnant she seems destined to forever being marked a certain kind of woman. After the death of her child, she makes her way to a prosperous farm where, working as a milkmaid, she meets and eventually marries the handsome Angel Clare. On learning of her past however, he abandons her and with little choice and facing a life of extreme hardship, again falls into Alec's clutches and becomes a kept woman.

Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
In 1936, Sir Hallam Holland and his pretty young wife Lady Agnes return from a diplomatic posting abroad and take up residence at 165 Eaton Place, formerly the home of the Bellamy family but vacant for several years. By chance, they ask Rose Buck, herself a long-time servant in the Bellamy household, to find them a suitable staff. In the end, Rose herself joins them as the Housekeeper. The 1930s are a difficult time in England. The Depression has taken its toll with high levels of unemployment. Fascism, which has become popular on the Continent in Italy and Germany, is also finding followers in the UK with Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists. As the new staff begin their daily work, the downstairs family begins to take shape.

Jane Eyre (1997)
A simple governess. A wealthy gentleman. And a secret that could destroy them both.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
Season 1
Episode #1.1
S1, Ep1 Sep. 14, 2008
Parson Tringham tells no one that John Durbeyfield's family is an impoverished branch of the noble, once mighty D'Urbervilles. However 'celebrating' in the pub, bad heart and bad luck end up completely ruining the family finances. His wife finally convinces daughter Tess to swallow her pride and seek help from the D'Urbervilles on a nearby estate. The heir, Alec D'Urberville, takes to her, arranges a job on the family's poultry farm and becomes her family's benefactor.

Episode #1.2
S1, Ep2 Sep. 21, 2008
After Tess is refused a graveyard burial for her child, she leaves home and becomes a milkmaid. The surprising perk of the job is the presence of Angel Clare, son of a parson. He is learning the farm trade there, planning to emigrate, his parents are planning to set him up overseas. The true gentleman is the dream of all the girls, but only has eyes for Tess. She is as smitten after accidentally seeing him sleeping in the buff.

Episode #1.3
S1, Ep3 Sep. 28, 2008
After Tess is married to Angel Clare, he tells her a 48 hours affair he had once, and she him the dark secret from the unread letter. He can't accept it, but as it happened before their wedding the law doesn't accept it as ground for divorce. Angel sets off for Brazil alone. Mercy won't have a bar of him, Retti would follow him but by her own admission she can't love him as much as Tess, so he makes up his mind to go alone. Tess returns home, then seeks another farm maid employ, accepting the worst job at Groby's, under his cruel, jealous bailiff.

Episode #1.4
S1, Ep4 Oct. 5, 2008
After Alec gives up preaching in order to court Tess and father Darbeyfield is killed by illness, she writes a vicious letter to Angel rejecting him as 'cruel', which he never receives, and starts wandering. By the time he's home and healed, it's hard to find her. When he does, she's 'Alec's creature'. She now commits an irreparable crime which ruins all their lives after a last passionate phase.

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