BBC Classics Collection - 4 Mini-Series (Vol. 5) - 7-DVD Box Set ( The Portrait of a Lady / Wuthering Heights / Casanova / Tipping the Velvet )

BBC Classics Collection - 4 Mini-Series (Vol. 5) - 7-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Portrait of a Lady / Wuthering Heights / Casanova / Tipping the Velvet
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Surround )

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

Running Time:
960 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1968 - 2002 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Cellan Jones
Peter Hammond
David Snodin
Mark Cullingham
John Glenister
Geoffrey Sax

Written By:
Henry James
Jack Pulman
Emily Brontë
Hugh Leonard
Dennis Potter
Andrew Davies
Sarah Waters

Actors:
Richard Chamberlain ..... Ralph Touchett
Suzanne Neve ..... Isabel Archer
Sarah Brackett ..... Henrietta Stackpole
Beatrix Lehmann ..... Mrs. Lydia Touchett
Rachel Gurney ..... Madame Merle
James Maxwell ..... Gilbert Osmond
Kathleen Byron ..... Countess Gemini
Ed Bishop ..... Caspar Goodwood
Edward Fox ..... Lord Warburton
Sharon Gurney ..... Pansy
Angus MacKay ..... Mr. Bantling
Ken Hutchison ..... Heathcliff
Brian Wilde ..... Joseph
Pat Heywood ..... Ellen Dean
John Duttine ..... Hindley Earnshaw
John Golightly ..... Dr. Kenneth
David Robb ..... Edgar Linton
Barbara Keogh ..... Zillah (3 episodes, 1978)
Cathryn Harrison ..... Catherine Linton
David Wilkinson ..... Hareton Earnshaw
Kay Adshead ..... Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw
Maggie Wilkinson ..... Frances Earnshaw
Caroline Langrishe ..... Isabella Linton
Norman Rutherford ..... Mr. Green
Simon Massey ..... Hareton Earnshaw
Frank Finlay ..... Casanova
Norman Rossington ..... Lorenzo
Zienia Merton ..... Cristina (6 episodes, 1971)
Christine Noonan ..... Barberina (6 episodes, 1971)
Patrick Newell ..... Schalon (4 episodes, 1971)
Ania Marson ..... Anne Roman-Coupier (4 episodes, 1971)
Lyn Yeldham ..... Genoveffa (4 episodes, 1971)
Julia Cornelius ..... Rose (4 episodes, 1971)
Brigid Erin Bates ..... Manon (4 episodes, 1971)
Alfred Hoffman ..... Constable (4 episodes, 1971)
Caroline Dowdeswell ..... Anna (4 episodes, 1971)
Ray Marioni ..... Constable (4 episodes, 1971)
Elaine Donnelly ..... Helena (3 episodes, 1971)
Rachael Stirling ..... Nan Astley
Keeley Hawes ..... Kitty Butler
Anna Chancellor ..... Diana Lethaby (2 episodes, 2002)
Jodhi May ..... Florence Banner
Alexei Sayle ..... Charles Frobisher (2 episodes, 2002)
John Bowe ..... Walter Bliss (2 episodes, 2002)
Sally Hawkins ..... Zena Blake (2 episodes, 2002)
Di Botcher ..... Woman with Cigar (2 episodes, 2002)
Carl Chase ..... Corder (2 episodes, 2002)
Janet Henfrey ..... Mrs. Jex (2 episodes, 2002)
Daniel Mays ..... Jimmy Burns
Bernice Stegers ..... Mrs. Denby (2 episodes, 2002)
Sara Stockbridge ..... Dickie (2 episodes, 2002)
Susie Valerio ..... Singer (2 episodes, 2002)

Synopsis:

The Portrait of a Lady (1968)
After inheriting a family fortune, free-spirited American Isabel Archer (Suzanne Neve) manages to fend off overzealous suitors until she moves to Europe and meets and marries Osmond, a union craftily choreographed by two American expatriates. Richard Chamberlain and Edward Fox also star in this 1967 BBC adaptation of Henry James's novel about Isabel and her struggle to maintain her independence in Old World Europe.
Wuthering Heights (1978)
An eternally romantic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine.
Casanova (1971)
The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.
Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Set in the 1890's, tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.

The Portrait of a Lady (1968)
Season 1
Proposals S1, Ep1 6 Jan. 1968
Bequests S1, Ep2 13 Jan. 1968
Schemes S1, Ep3 20 Jan. 1968
Decisions S1, Ep4 27 Jan. 1968
Dissensions S1, Ep5 3 Feb. 1968
Revelations S1, Ep6 10 Feb. 1968
Wuthering Heights (1978)
Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's classic tale of all-consuming love. When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff, a ragamuffin orphan, he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. And from the start, Heathcliff falls hopelessly in love with the daughter of the house, the beautiful, headstrong Catherine. She adores him, too, but when a wealthy neighbour woos her, Catherine's material instincts get the better of her, and she agrees to marry the man. However, Catherine discovers that she cannot forget Heathcliff so easily... and that not even death can make them part...
Casanova (1971)
Episode 1: "Steed in the Stable"
After being arrested and charged with "foul atheism" and fornication, Casanova is sentenced to five years imprisonment at "The Leads": the most notorious of Venetian gaols. Brutalised by Lorenzo the gaoler and devoid of hope under the harsh prison regime, Casanova's mind wanders back to his past loves and adventures. He finds himself haunted by the memory of Christina, a simple country girl he gave to another rather than marry her himself.
Episode 2: "One at a Time"
Casanova receives a new cellmate in the form of Schalon, a corrupt insurance broker, and reflects on his seduction of three daughters at a house in Grenoble.
Episode 3: "Magic Moments"
Casanova is irritated by his constantly complaining cell mate Schalon and remembers how he once pretended to be a magician casting a spell to seduce the virgin daughter of an old naive man.
Episode 4: "Window, Window"
The episode flashes back and forward between Casanova trying to seduce Anne Roman-Coupier, even though his friend strongly discourages this, and him trying to receive some books while being in prison. He is also haunted by memories of watching a man being executed and him smashing a window with a stone in Venice.
Episode 5: "Fevers of Love"
While in his prison cell, Casanova is tormented by fever dreams and flashbacks to his past loves and especially his stay in London.
Episode 6: "Golden Apples"
This episode flashes back and forward between Casanova finally managing to escape from his prison cell and him trying to write his memoirs in Castle of Duchcov near the end of his life as an old, dying man.
Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Dramatised from Sarah Waters' acclaimed debut novel, "Tipping the Velvet" tells the story of Nancy Astley (Rachael Stirling), a young girl who works as cook and waitress in her Father's seaside restaurant - that is until she witnesses the extraordinary performance of a new-to-town male impersonator - Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes) - and begins to undergo a complete life transformation. Suddenly whipped up - and quickly flung down - by her love affair with Kitty, she experiences both euphoria and deep disillusion as she embarks on a seven-year journey of self-discovery - finally realizing that a life of sensation just isn't enough.

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