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The Resource Bleak house, by Charles Dickens ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, (videorecording)

Bleak house, by Charles Dickens ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, (videorecording)

Label
Bleak house
Title
Bleak house
Statement of responsibility
by Charles Dickens ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. Twines through the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White
Dewey number
791.45/72
Language note
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
LC call number
PN1992.77
LC item number
.B54 2009
PerformerNote
Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Brooks, Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Charles Dance, Phil Davis, Burn Gorman, Richard Harrington, Matthew Kelly, Patrick Kennedy, Denis Lawson, John Lynch, Anna Maxwell Martin, Alistair McGowan, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker, Natalie Press, Anne Reid, Ian Richardson, Hugo Speer, Liza Tarbuck, Johnny Vegas, Timothy West
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1812-1870
  • 1936-
  • 1968-
  • 1981-
  • 1947-2014
  • 1940-
  • 1953-
  • 1974-
  • 1975-
  • 1978-
  • 1961-
  • 1978-
  • 1964-
  • 1985-
  • 1962-
  • 1934-2007
  • 1964-
  • 1971-
  • 1812-1870
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Dickens, Charles
  • Stafford-Clark, Nigel
  • Davies, Andrew
  • Chadwick, Justin
  • White, Susanna
  • Anderson, Gillian
  • Armstrong, Alun
  • Brooks, Charlie
  • Clarke, Warren
  • Collins, Pauline
  • Dance, Charles
  • Davis, Philip
  • Gorman, Burn
  • Harrington, Richard
  • Kelly, Matthew
  • Kennedy, Patrick
  • Lawson, Denis
  • Lynch, John
  • Maxwell Martin, Anna
  • McGowan, Alistair
  • Mulligan, Carey
  • Parker, Nathaniel
  • Press, Natalie
  • Reid, Anne
  • Richardson, Ian
  • Speer, Hugo
  • Tarbuck, Liza
  • Vegas, Johnny
  • West, Timothy
  • Dickens, Charles
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
  • BBC Video (Firm)
  • BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
  • Warner Home Video (Firm)
Runtime
465
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Orphans
  • Actions and defenses
  • Procedure (Law)
  • Murder
Technique
live action
Label
Bleak house, by Charles Dickens ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, (videorecording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Title from container
  • Based on the novel by Charles Dickens
  • Originally broadcast on BBC television in 2005
  • Special features: Interviews with Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson and Charles Dance; commentaries with writer Andrew Davies, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and directors Justin Chadwick and Susanna White; photo gallery
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Special ed.
Extent
3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.)
Isbn
9781419880865
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
883929066094
Other physical details
sd., col.
Publisher number
  • 1000093209
  • 3000021141
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • 1492728
  • (OCoLC)ocn319440867
  • (OCoLC)319440867
  • 1492728
System details
DVD, region 1, widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., DVD-9, NTSC
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Bleak house, by Charles Dickens ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, (videorecording)
Publication
Note
  • Title from container
  • Based on the novel by Charles Dickens
  • Originally broadcast on BBC television in 2005
  • Special features: Interviews with Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson and Charles Dance; commentaries with writer Andrew Davies, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and directors Justin Chadwick and Susanna White; photo gallery
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Special ed.
Extent
3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.)
Isbn
9781419880865
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
883929066094
Other physical details
sd., col.
Publisher number
  • 1000093209
  • 3000021141
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • 1492728
  • (OCoLC)ocn319440867
  • (OCoLC)319440867
  • 1492728
System details
DVD, region 1, widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., DVD-9, NTSC
Video recording format
DVD

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