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Great Literature on Film 4 Movie Pack |  | Directors: George Schaefer, Delbert Mann, Michael Gordon, John Cromwell
Actors: Bette Davis, George C. Scott, Susan Sarandon, José Ferrer, Susannah York
Studio: BCI / Eclipse
Category: DVD
Buy New: $19.95
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Sales Rank: 144118
Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, Mono, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 420 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: 44621-9
UPC: 787364462193
EAN: 0787364462193
ASIN: B0000950X8
Release Date: May 20, 2003
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Cyrano De Bergerac Fabulous Hero! Famous Nose! The Most Loved of All Love Stories! He was the three musketeers in one and one lover in a million! It was France 1640: Cyrano the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurdly large nose hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxanne: she in turn confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception with tragic results. This film was later made into the popular film "Roxanne" starring Steve Martin. Cyrano De Bergerac is a classic to say the least!Runtime: 107 minutesOf Human BondageThe Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise. . . and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again. Abandoning artistic ambitions sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. Theirs is a love that won't soon be forgotten. A tale of love loss and forgiveness at all costs. "Of Human Bondage" is a classic piece of American film history and stars film greats Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.Runtime: 83 minutes: Last of the Belles The "The Last of the Belles" is a semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the Army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. "Belles" is a story within a story. Fitzgerald (Richard Chamberlain) and his wife Zelda (Blythe Danner) have returned form Europe. Through high living he is deeply in debt while his wife Zelda has distanced herself becoming obsessed with being a ballerina even though she is 30 years old and never had a dance lesson which indeed was true of the real Zelda. Fitzgerald is out of ideas for new stories and spends the empty hours carousing. Finally the seed of an idea for a story begins to emerge. The film then alternates between Fitzgerald's life and his story of young soldiers from the north at a training camp in the south during World War I and the southern belles they court. David Huffman and Susan Sarando
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Humanity's dramas January 12, 2008
Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth)
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CONTENTS of GREAT LITERATURE ON FILM 4 Movie Pack:
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-- Based on an 1897 stageplay about a real person. Cyrano was a 17th Century dramatist and swordsman. He had a prominent nose, but not as large as the one in this Rostand story. Cyrano loves Roxanne but fears rejection because of his gigantic nose. He secretly gets close to his lady fair by writing love letters to her meant to be from one of Roxanne's young and inarticulate suitors.
JANE EYRE-- Emmy-winning adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel. An orphan takes a job as governess to a wealthy man's daughter. She falls in love with her employer but problems ensue when a dark secret is exposed.
LAST OF THE BELLES-- Fictionalized account of how F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife is based on his short story of the same name. Well-done TV movie features a very young Susan Sarandon.
OF HUMAN BONDAGE-- Medical student's love for an illiterate waitress time and again leads to heartache and disappoinment for him.
GREAT NOVELS ON FILM 4 Movie Pack (also from BCI / Eclipse) is the perfect companion to this collection.
BRENTWOOD's 4-fers are nicely priced movie bundles. Video and sound quality of these digitally unrestored public domain films is generally fine. Discs are dual-side recorded.
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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.
(7.5) Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) - José Ferrer/Mala Powers/William Prince/Elena Verdugo
(6.8) Jane Eyre (TV-UK/USA-1970) - George C. Scott/Susannah York/Jack Hawkins
(6.0) The Last of the Belles (TV-1974) - Richard Chamberlain/Blythe Danner/Susan Sarandon
(7.3) Of Human Bondage (1934) - Leslie Howard/Bette Davis/Reginald Denny/Alan Hale
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