Ghost Stories For Christmas - 6-DVD Box Set ( Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968 & 2010) / The Stalls of Barchester / A Warning to the Curious / Lost Hearts / The Treasure of Abbot Thomas / The Ash Tree / The Signalman / Stigma / The Ice House / A View from a Hill / Number 13 / Classic Ghost Stories )

Ghost Stories For Christmas - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$89.99

Original Title: Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968 & 2010) / The Stalls of Barchester / A Warning to the Curious / Lost Hearts / The Treasure of Abbot Thomas / The Ash Tree / The Signalman / Stigma / The Ice House / A View from a Hill / Number 13 / Classic Ghost Stories
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
830 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1968 - 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Lawrence Gordon Clark
Jonathan Miller
Andy De Emmony

Written By:
Charles Dickens
Andrew Davies
M.R. James
Neil Cross

Actors:
Denholm Elliott ..... The Signalman
Bernard Lloyd ..... The Traveller
Reginald Jessup ..... The Engine Driver
Carina Wyeth ..... The Bride
Jonathan Miller
John Hurt ..... James Parkin
Gemma Jones ..... Alice Parkin
Lesley Sharp ..... Hetty
Sophie Thompson ..... Carol

Synopsis:

This newly re-packaged and expanded Ghost Stories for Christmas 6-DVD box set from the BFI incudes a total of 20 spine-tingling adaptations of the stories of M R James, plus three additional Ghost Stories for Christmas, broadcast on the BBC between 1968 and 2010 Highlights include Jonathan Miller's Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968), Lawrence Gordon Clark's A Warning to the Curious (1972) and the Andrew Davies adaptation of Charles Dicken's The Signalman (1976). These adaptations, which have a subtlety and style all of their own, have been a major influence on many contemporary British horror filmmakers and have come to be regarded as some of the most acclaimed and brilliant British TV titles of all time.
Disc One: Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968); Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Disc Two: The Stalls of Barchester (1971); A Warning to the Curious (1972)
Disc Three: Lost Hearts (1973); The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974); The Ash Tree (1975)
Disc Four: The Signalman (1976); Stigma (1977); The Ice House (1978)
Disc Five: A View from a Hill (2005); Number 13 (2006)
Disc Six: Classic Ghost Stories 1986 (Robert Powell reads The Mezzotint, The Ash Tree, Wailing Well, The Rose Garden and Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad)

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films broadcast on BBC. With one exception, the original instalments are directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and the films are all shot on 16 mm colour film. The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas.

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