The Bostonians, Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory
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Label
The Bostonians, Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Main title
The Bostonians
Oclc number
52960129
Responsibility statement
Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory
Runtime
122
Series statement
Criterion Collection. The Merchant Ivory collection
Summary
Olive Chancellor, a 19th-century suffragette, takes on the education of Verena Tarrant, a faith healer's daughter with the gift of oratory. Olive hopes to use Verena's gift for the feminist cause; but she soon finds that Verena's become involved in a love triangle with Basil Ransom, a young lawyer from Mississippi who's strongly opposed to the feminists in Boston
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Ivory, James
- Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
- Robbins, Richard, 1940-2012
- Potter, Madeleine, 1963-
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013
- Tandy, Jessica
- Potter, Mark, Jr
- Merchant, Ismail
- Lassally, Walter, 1926-2017
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- Marchand, Nancy, 1928-2000
- Reeve, Christopher, 1952-2004
- Wenning, Katherine
- Hunt, Linda, 1945-
Subject
Is Derivative Of
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor16
- Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Ivory, James
- Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
- Robbins, Richard, 1940-2012
- Potter, Madeleine, 1963-
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013
- Tandy, Jessica
- Potter, Mark, Jr
- Merchant, Ismail
- Lassally, Walter, 1926-2017
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- Marchand, Nancy, 1928-2000
- Reeve, Christopher, 1952-2004
- Wenning, Katherine
- Hunt, Linda, 1945-
- Subject5
- Is Derivative Of1
- Is Part Of1
- Mapped to1