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Hard times [videorecording] / BBC Schools presents ; by Charles Dickens ; produced by Richard Langridge ; adapted & directed by Peter Barnes.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 3000021467 | BBC VideoLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: BBC Video classics | Charles Dickens collection ; 1Publication details: [England] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2009.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1419880810 (set)
  • 9781419880810 (set)
Uniform titles:
  • Hard times (Television program : 1994)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Photography, Rex Maidment; editor, Robin Graham Scott; music composed by Stephen Deutsch.
Cast: Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant.Summary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Northport Library DVD DRAMA Hard tim Available 33111008285690
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In these six acclaimed adaptations of his classics, we enter Dickens's vibrant Victorian London. Includes: Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Martin Chuzzlewitt, Oliver Twist, and Our Mutual Friend.

"A BBC TV production in association with WGBH"--Container.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Special feature: The signalman / starring Denholm Elliott.

Photography, Rex Maidment; editor, Robin Graham Scott; music composed by Stephen Deutsch.

Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant.

Originally released as a television movie in 1994.

Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.

DVD, region 1, NTSC; DVD9; Dolby Digital mono; aspect ratio 4:3.

In English with optional English subtitles; Closed captioned.

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