Catherine Cookson Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( The Fifteen Streets / The Man Who Cried / The Gambling Man / Colour Blind / The Girl / Rag Nymph / The Moth / The Round Tower ) ( 15 Streets )

Catherine Cookson Collection - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Fifteen Streets / The Man Who Cried / The Gambling Man / Colour Blind / The Girl / Rag Nymph / The Moth / The Round Tower
Alternate Title: 15 Streets
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1157 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 - 1998 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Wheatley
Michael Whyte
Norman Stone
Alan Grint
Roy Battersby

Written By:
Rob Bettinson
Catherine Cookson
Stan Barstow
T.R. Bowen
Gordon Hann

Actors:
Owen Teale ..... John O'Brien
Sean Bean ..... Dominic O'Brien
Anny Tobin ..... Mary Ellen O'Brien
Leslie Schofield ..... Shane O'Brien
Faye Dannell ..... Katie O'Brien
Gillian Hope ..... Molly O'Brien
Scott Frazer ..... Mick O'Brien
Clare Holman ..... Mary Llewellyn
Frank Windsor ..... James Llewellyn
Billie Whitelaw ..... Beatrice Llewellyn
Ian Bannen ..... Peter Bracken
Jane Horrocks ..... Christine Bracken
Colin Bavidge ..... David Bracken
Barbara Marten ..... Hannah Kelly
Madeleine Moffat ..... Bella Bradley
Ciarán Hinds ..... Abel Mason
Kate Buffery ..... Florrie Donnelly
Amanda Root ..... Hilda Maxwell
Daniel Massey ..... Peter Maxwell
Gemma Craven ..... June
Angela Walsh ..... Lena Mason
Bobby Pattinson ..... Fred Donnelly
Colin Brown ..... Benny Layton
Gary Catlin ..... Man in Church Hall
Heather Chapman ..... Woman in Park
Elspeth Charlton ..... Mrs. Burrows
Martin Crocker ..... Charles
Art Davie ..... Arthur Baines
Kerry Farley ..... Molly Burrows
Susan Field ..... Old Woman
Victoria Gelder ..... Molly Burrows
Michael Haughey ..... Farmer
Peter Howell ..... Judge Hazeldon
Colin Jeavons ..... J.J. Roscommon
Peter Laird ..... Collins
Tony Leary ..... Henry Blythe
Bruce Lidington ..... Harry Turnbull
John Mulvey ..... A.R.P. Warden
Bill Nicholson ..... Bandleader
Carl Proctor ..... Johnny Lovina
Brian Rapkin ..... Benbow
Emma Richler ..... Alice Lovina
Bill Rogers ..... Man in Alice's Street
Shebah Ronay ..... Daphne
Mike Rossi ..... Dosshouse Manager
Colin Sharp ..... Man on road
Leonard Silver ..... Fire Officer
Bill Speed ..... Registrar
Tim Stone ..... Dick Mason
James Tomlinson ..... Dick Mason
Ben Walden
Robson Green ..... Rory Connor
Ian Cullen ..... Paddy Connor
Bernard Hill ..... Frank Nickle
Sammy Johnson ..... Victor Pittie (3 episodes, 1995)
Anne Kent ..... Lizzie O'Dowd (3 episodes, 1995)
Sylvestra Le Touzel ..... Charlotte Kean (3 episodes, 1995)
Dennis Lingard ..... Little Joe (3 episodes, 1995)
Allen Mechen ..... Dan Pittie (3 episodes, 1995)
David Nellist ..... Jimmy Connor
Stephanie Putson ..... Janie Waggett (3 episodes, 1995)
Ron Senior Jr. ..... Sam Pittie (3 episodes, 1995)
Amber Styles ..... Ruth Connor (3 episodes, 1995)
Margery Bone ..... Maggie Ridley (2 episodes, 1995)
Lyn Douglas ..... Grannie Waggett (2 episodes, 1995)
Sarah Finch ..... Mrs. Buckham (2 episodes, 1995)
Joe Ging ..... Dr. Munday (2 episodes, 1995)
David Haddow ..... John George Armstrong (2 episodes, 1995)
John Middleton ..... Mr. Buckham
Frank Mills ..... Mr. Kean (2 episodes, 1995)
Max Smith ..... Bill Waggett (2 episodes, 1995)
Joe Caffrey ..... Tony (3 episodes, 1998)
Dearbhla Molloy ..... Kathie McQueen (3 episodes, 1998)
Ian Embleton ..... Matt McQueen (3 episodes, 1998)
Walter McMonagle ..... Cavan McQueen (3 episodes, 1998)
Niamh Cusack ..... Bridget Paterson (3 episodes, 1998)
Tony Armatrading ..... James Paterson (3 episodes, 1998)
Carmen Ejogo ..... Rose-Angela Patterson (2 episodes, 1998)
Michael Walter ..... Pete (2 episodes, 1998)
Michael Glenn Murphy ..... Murphy (2 episodes, 1998)
Art Malik ..... Hassan (2 episodes, 1998)
James Larkin ..... Stanhope (2 episodes, 1998)
Ron Senior Jr. ..... Geordie (2 episodes, 1998)
Siobhan Flynn ..... Hannah Boyle
Jonathan Cake ..... Ned Ridley
Mark Benton ..... Fred Loam
Susan Jameson ..... Mrs. Daisy Loam
Jill Baker ..... Anne Thornton
Kerry Angus ..... Dickinson
David Auker ..... Walters
Charlotte Barrymore ..... Young Margaret
Oliver Cheetham ..... John Thornton
Jon Croft ..... Mr. Beaumont
Denny Ferguson ..... Dapper Man
Scott Frazer ..... Dandy Smollett
James Garbutt ..... Grandad
Donald Gee ..... Reverend Crewe
Daphne Goddard ..... Miss Barrington
Emily Hamilton ..... Margaret Thornton
Laura Harling ..... Young Betsy
David Hartley ..... Gentleman at Ball
Stephen Hawksby ..... Shields
Brendan P. Healy ..... Bill Nicholson
Nancy Lodder ..... Betsy Thornton
Guy Manning ..... Solicitor
Lizzie McKenzie ..... Bella
Annie Miles ..... Sally Warrington
Ursula Mohan ..... Miss Rowntree
Cheryl Moody ..... Young Hannah
Stuart Piper ..... Young John
Lesley Saint-John ..... Nancy Boyle
Leonard Silver ..... Matthew Thornton
Malcolm Stoddard ..... Bill Warrington
Stephen Thirkeld ..... Dr. Arnison
Ian Thompson ..... Jessie
Sarah Turnbull ..... Pearman
David Wheatley
Val McLane ..... Aggie Winkovski (3 episodes, 1997)
Alec Newman ..... Ben
Christine Anderson ..... Mrs. Walton (3 episodes, 1997)
Tracey Wilkinson ..... Nellie (3 episodes, 1997)
Honeysuckle Weeks ..... Millie (3 episodes, 1997)
Patrick Ryecart ..... Mr. Crane-Bolder
Crispin Bonham-Carter ..... Bernard Thompson
Neil Daglish ..... Sergeant Fenwick (2 episodes, 1997)
Paul Brennen ..... Boswell
William Gaminara ..... Mr. Quinton (2 episodes, 1997)
Steve Ramsden ..... Schindler (2 episodes, 1997)
Claudia McNulty ..... Mrs. Quinton (2 episodes, 1997)
Perdita Weeks ..... Young Millie (2 episodes, 1997)
Ann Queensberry ..... Aunt Chrissie (2 episodes, 1997)
Jack Davenport ..... Robert Bradley
David Howey ..... John Bradley
Janet Dale ..... Alice Bradley
Sally Grey ..... Carrie Bradley
Angela Lonsdale ..... Nancy Parkin
Leslie Schofield ..... Billy Taggart
Mike Rossi ..... Jimmy
Justine Waddell ..... Millie Thorman
Juliet Aubrey ..... Sarah Thorman
David Bradley ..... Dave Waters
Ian Kelly ..... James Crockford
Aedin Moloney ..... Maggie
Jeremy Clyde ..... Reginald Thorman
John Quarmby ..... Samuel Bennett
Judy Loe ..... Kate Thorman
Val McLane ..... Aggie Winkovski
Dave Johns ..... Man
Fleur Bennett ..... Laura Forester
Perdita Weeks ..... Young Millie
Christine Anderson ..... Mrs. Walton
Tracey Wilkinson ..... Nellie
Neil Daglish ..... Sergeant Fenwick
Desmond Cullum-Jones ..... Magistrate
Steve Ramsden ..... Schindler
Lyndsey Rounsfell ..... Rosie (as Lyndsey Todd)
Carmel Cryan ..... Mother Superior
Valerie Lilley ..... Sister Mary
Leonie Sooke ..... Annabel

Synopsis:

The Fifteen Streets (1989)
A young docker, John O'Brien, falls deeply in love with Mary Llewellyn, the daughter of a local shipbuilder.
The Man Who Cried (1993)
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick.
The Gambling Man (1995)
Robson Green takes stars as a rent collector in this acclaimed TV minseries adaptation of the Catherine Cookson drama.
Colour Blind (1998)
A gritty period drama set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. Life for the McQueen family is turned upside down when daughter Bridget comes home with a black husband.
The Girl (1996)
In the middle of the 19th Century, 18 year old Hannah Boyle and her sick mother are travelling from Newcastle; seeking shelter they hide in a stableyard…
Rag Nymph (1997)
Ten year old Millie is taken in by 'Raggie Aggie' after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel.
The Moth (1997)
Robert Bradley gives up his job in the shipyards to work with his Uncle John as a carpenter.
The Round Tower (1998)
This is the story of convent-educated Vanessa Ratcliffe, the rebellious seventeen-year-old daughter of a wealthy middle-class family, and Angus Cotton, an ambitious charge-hand at her father's engineering works in Newcastle.

The Fifteen Streets (1989)
Catherine Cookson's powerful drama is set against the harsh, turbulent background of poverty, bigotry and the class division of Northern England at the turn of the century. It tells the moving story of the romance between a rugged Tyneside labourer and the daughter of a wealthy local shipbuilder. Their love throws both their worlds into turmoil as they struggle to overcome the class divide that is "The Fifteen Streets".
The Man Who Cried (1993)
Set against the background of the Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War, the story centres around Abel Mason and his desperate search for love and happiness in relationships with four women. After an affair ends in tragedy, he leaves his vicious wife Lena and travels North with his ten year old son Dick. To secure a home for the boy and employment for himself, he makes an illegal marriage with the widow of a wealthy garage owner.
The Gambling Man (1995)
Rory Connor knows what he wants out of life and he knows he won't get it working as a rent collector. He believes his way up in the world is through his disapproved of passion for gambling. Rory uses his talents as a launch to a better life - he becomes the proud owner of a boatyard and marries his childhood sweetheart. However, beneath his success is a tangled web of lies and deceit.
Colour Blind (1998)
Bridget Paterson seriously offends her Geordie family's Irish Catholic sensibilities by marrying an African sailor, whom she is also pregnant by. After being accused of murder, her husband is eventually forced to leave town with half of Newcastle out to get him. As their daughter grows up, she must learn to cope with the racism which surrounds her. Starring Niamh Cusack (Heartbeat), Tony Armatrading (Supply and Demand) and Art Malik (Holby City).
The Girl (1996)
In mid-19th century Yorkshire, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her. Ill-treated by Thornton's bitter and vindictive wife Anne, who views Hannah only as evidence of her husband's infidelity, she is married off to the village butcher, whose waspish mother torments her further. But through her patience, intelligence and strength, she wins her freedom and the man she loves.
Rag Nymph (1997)
Seperated from her prostitute mother as the woman flees on foot down the filthy mid-19th century streets of Newcastle from the police, ten year old Millie is taken under the wing of rag lady Aggie Winkovski and her crippled helper, Ben. Young Millie is a very well-brought up little girl, which Aggie questions and finds out that her mother had been a ladies maid before being forced into prostitution. Aggie ends up becoming Millie's guardian, protecting her from the local pimp, Boswell, who wants to have pretty Millie as part of his business, and we see Millie grow up to a happy, well educated young woman on Aggie's sparse finances; but is she still safe from the hands of Boswell and his customers?
The Moth (1997)
Set in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has died. At the funeral he meets his father's estranged brother, his uncle John Bradley, and his wife Alice who offer Robert a new home and a place in his uncle's carpentry workshop. Robert accepts and after a few weeks at his new home, he is out walking late one night on the grounds of a rundown estate when he meets an ethereal young girl, Millie Thorman, whom the locals call the Moth, and befriends her. All seems to be going well for Robert until his cousin, Carrie, is revealed to be pregnant. Robert is immediately the suspected father, which he adamantly denies, but no one believes him. Even worse Carrie will not say who the real father is because she has always had a crush on Robert, and would rather marry him. Robert refuses to take the responsibility, shocking the townspeople, and leaves his relative's house, finding a place to work on the estate of Millie Thorman's once wealthy, now debt-ridden family. It is there that a mutual attraction develops between Robert and Sarah Thorman, Millie's older sister, but their social differences and Robert's reputation stand in their way.
The Round Tower (1998)
Set in mid-1950's England, this story tells of the wealthy, socially upwardly-progressive Ratcliffe family. Their youngest daughter, seventeen year old Vanessa, feels alienated from her selfish parents, who are more interested in their eldest daughter's upcoming marriage into one of their town's old families. An old friend of the family, who is himself trapped in a loveless marriage, makes love to Vanessa one night, and she becomes pregnant, but won't reveal who the father is. Her parents are sure it is an employee of the Ratcliffe's, Angus Cotton, who hotly denies this and quits his job to go and start his own business. Vanessa ends up leaving home, and when Angus hears of the poor conditions she's living in in a Newcastle skid-row neighbourhood, he offers to marry her and she accepts.

The Fifteen Streets (1989)
A young docker, John O'Brien, falls deeply in love with Mary Llewellyn, the daughter of a local shipbuilder. Their love unites them but the fifteen streets which separate poverty from wealth threaten to stand in their way.
The Man Who Cried (1993)
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he loves dies at the hands of her husband after he was sent a letter by Mason's wife, exposing the affair, Abel leaves her for good taking to the road and young Dick with him.
The Gambling Man (1995)
Robson Green takes stars as a rent collector in this acclaimed TV minseries adaptation of the Catherine Cookson drama.
Colour Blind (1998)
A gritty period drama set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. Life for the McQueen family is turned upside down when daughter Bridget comes home with a black husband.
The Girl (1996)
In the middle of the 19th Century, 18 year old Hannah Boyle and her sick mother are travelling from Newcastle; seeking shelter they hide in a stableyard…
Rag Nymph (1997)
Ten year old Millie is taken in by 'Raggie Aggie' after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel. Aggie soon has to hide Millie in a convent after the brothel owner turns his attentions to Millie. Years later, and a beautiful young woman, she returns to her Aunt but after a desolate relationship she is abducted into the same brothel in which her mother died...
The Moth (1997)
Robert Bradley gives up his job in the shipyards to work with his Uncle John as a carpenter. He starts to explore the surrounding countryside and soon encounters Millie, a strange girl-child known as 'Thorman's Moth'...
The Round Tower (1998)
This is the story of convent-educated Vanessa Ratcliffe, the rebellious seventeen-year-old daughter of a wealthy middle-class family, and Angus Cotton, an ambitious charge-hand at her father's engineering works in Newcastle. A sequence of unexpected and dramatic events draws the unlikely couple close together, but not before Vanessa destroys the tranquillity of the Ratcliffe family by becoming pregnant..

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 June, 2014.