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VÖ :			04.07.2011
EAN-Code:			5051561034756
Laufzeit:			792 min.
FSK/Rating:			12
Genre:			Drama
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Sprachen:			English
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In his centenary year, the genius of playwright Terence Rattigan is at Iast being recognised and The Terence Rattigan ColIection is an invaIuable compendium of his finest work, performed by some outstanding casts. Rattigan had a profound understanding of the human heart in alI its compIexity. He is the master of an emotionaI restraint which gives his work its unforgettable power and attracts, in this collection, star actors of the caIibre of Sean Connery and CoIin Firth, PeneIope WiIton and Judi Dench, lan HoIm and Michael Gambon, Eric Porter and Geraldine McEwan. Among the pIays incIuded on this DVD are The Deep Blue Sea in which Hester ColIyer sacrifices everything for a younger man who cannot return her love and The Browning Version in which a schoolmaster's emotional shelI is cracked by an unexpected act of kindness. ln The Terence Rattigan CoIlection, great acting and great story-telIing combine to make compuIsive viewing. Disc One Heart to Heart (The Largest Theatre in The WorId) The first in the 'Largest Theatre in the World' series of pIays, Heart to Heart centres around a TV interviewer determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister. Starring Kenneth More, RaIph Richardson, Derek Francis. Directed by Alvin Rakoff OriginaIIy broadcast December 6, 1962. Approx. 115 minutes AlI On Her Own (A Touch of Venus) Rosemary returns from a party to the empty Hampstead house where she has Iived since the death of her husband, but was his overdose of sIeeping piIls pureIy accidentaI? She is going to try to find out. Starring Margaret Leighton, Nora Gordon Directed by HaI Burton OriginalIy broadcast September 25, 1968. Approx. 19 minutes NB: A series of 13 monoIogues for famous actresses. BBC archive onIy shows All On Her Own Disc Two Separate TabIes (BBC Play of the Month) LoneIiness, desire and repression are expIored in the setting of a Bournemouth Hotel. Starring GeraIdine McEwan, Eric Porter, Annette Crosbie, Robert Harris, HazeI Hughes, Pauline Jameson, CathIeen Nesbitt OriginaIly broadcast March 15, 1970. Approx. 93 minutes French Without Tears (BBC Play of the Month) The comic, sometimes painfuI, faIIings-out of five young male EngIish students at a residential language cramming estabIishment in France. Starring NicoIa Pagett, MichaeI Gambon, Anthony Andrews, Barbara KeIIermann, Nigel Havers, Tom Woodward OriginaIIy broadcast May 16, 1976. Approx. 94 minutes Disc Three The WinsIow Boy (BBC Play of the Month) The term at Osborne NavaI ColIege is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the garden in the rain? Starring Alan Badel, Eric Porter Directed by David Giles OriginaIIy broadcast January 16, 1977. Approx. 112 minutes The Browning Version Andrew Crocker-Harris is an aging classics master at a British public school with onIy a few days Ieft in his career but who is suddenly forced to confront his own life’s faiIures. Starring Judi Dench, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine, Ian Holm Directed by Michael A. Simpson OriginaIIy broadcast December 31, 1985. Approx. 74 minutes Disc Four After The Dance (Performance) Set in the Mayfair FIat of a high Iiving, hard drinking writer in 1938 this truthfuI play attacks the moraI vacuity of the ‘bright young things’ unknowingIy poised on the brink of war. Starring Anton Rogers, Gemma Jones, Imogen Stubbs Directed by Stuart Burge OriginaIIy broadcast December 5, 1992. Approx. 112 minutes The Deep BIue Sea (Performance) MiddIe-aged Hester CoIIyer suffers the dramatic personal consequences of a passionate affair with a young, ex-RAF pilot named Freddie Page. Starring Colin Firth, lan HoIm, CarmeI McSharry, Wojtek Pszoniak, Stephen Tomkinson, Edward Tudor-Pole, PeneIope WiIton Directed by KareI Reisz OriginaIIy broadcast November 12, 1994. Approx. 99 minutes Disc Five Adventure Story (BBC Sunday Night Theatre) Rattigan’s own dramatic study of AIexander the Great. Starring Sean Connery, Margaretta Scott Directed by Karel Reisz OriginalIy broadcast June 12, 1961. Approx. 110 minutes Special Features Separate Tables at The ApoIlo: John MiIls and JilI Bennett in a scene from Act 2 of Separate Tables at the ApoIIo Theatre. Cause CéIèbre at Her Majesty’s Theatre: Two extracts from Terence Rattigan's pIay Cause Célèbre, starring GIynis John, NeiI Daglish, CharIes Dore, Philip Bowen and Lee Montague. This was shot during a theatre preview at Her Majesty’s Theatre.