Tom Courtenay
Author
Language
English
Description
A rebellious youth (Sir Tom Courtenay), sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbery, rises through the ranks from his prowess as a long distance runner. During his runs, memories of his life lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor's (Sir Michael Redgrave's) prize runner. A famous quote "Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police"
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart must untangle lies that have been covered up for nearly forty years. With her partner, DI Sunil Sunny Khan they narrow the list to four suspects, each with something to hide. As their deceptions are discovered, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of.
3) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
4) King Rat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1965
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 452 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
7) Quartet
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When financial problems threaten to close a retirement home for gifted musicians, the guests at Beecham House must work together to perform at the yearly gala concert.
8) 45 years
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
10) The dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two recently-widowed men come to terms with the deaths of their wives. Reggie Conyngham-Jervis is a wealthy ex-fighter pilot. Roy Southgate is a retired milkman. Both are widowed on the same night. Now this 'odd couple' decide to overlook their differences and move in together. At first the two become friends, until their unlikely relationship is threatened by the arrival of Liz Franks, an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds a book by Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu de Prado and his life is irrevocably changed. Determined to learn more about the author, Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon and begins to piece together an epic story of oppression and revolution, loyalty and betrayal, love and jealousy, played out against the backdrop of a brutal fascist dictatorship. In his exploration of Amadeu de Prado's life, Gregorius finds...
13) Last orders
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of four men, covering nearly a half-century of these South London buddies lives, from their adopted pub to Margate Pier. Through a series of flashbacks, they take you on a journey of a lifetime. Along with them are the ashes of Jack, their larger-than-life friend, whose deathbed request sends them on their way.
14) Quartet
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of...
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In payment for a gambling debt, Little Nell and her grandfather are evicted from their curiosity shop by the evil Daniel Quilp and wander about the country looking for a new home.
16) Gambit
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
17) King of thieves
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on the infamous true events.
18) Billy Liar
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
19) 45 years
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.