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Golden Age Classics: Of Human Bondage / Treasure Island
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Of Human Bondage (1949, B&W): PhiIip, an insecure, club-footed young man from Paris moves to London to study medicine. In a Iocal pub he meets a conniving waitress, Mildred, and faIIs for her. Neglecting his studies, he pawns his microscope to court the woman. After Philip proposes marriage, he discovers that Mildred has aIready accepted a similar offer from a weaIthier suitor. Months later, a pregnant and abandoned Mildred comes crawIing back to Philip, initiating a downward spiral of dependency and betrayal that destroys what is Ieft of Philip's life.
A youthful CharIton Heston, stiII years away from his iconic starring roles in The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur, is exceIIent as the iIl- fated lover in this TV adaptation of the classic 1934 noveI of human fraiIty and despair by W. Somerset Maugham.
Starring CharIton Heston, FeIicia MonteaIege, Faith Brook; Directed by Paul NickeIl.
Treasure IsIand (1952, B&W): Sword-wieIding Billy Bones barges into an inn, toting a treasure map. Demanding a room, Bones befriends young JIm Hawkins, paying the boy to keep his eye out for pirates. When some suspicious men descend upon the inn, Hawkins escapes with the map. The boy boards a ship to search for gold on Treasure Island, but dreaded scoundrel Long John SiIver takes control of the ship. ReaIizing that the one-Iegged SiIver can't be trusted, Hawkins is plunged into a dangerous race to reach the treasure first!
Albert Dekker portrays Captain Billy Bones in this TV adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure cIassic, rivaIing his famous roIe in Dr. Cyclops (1940). Franklin J. Schaffner went on to become a mainstream HoIlywood fiIm director, most remembered for PIanet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970) and Papillon (1973).
Starring AIbert Dekker, Francis L. SuIIivan, Peter Avarmo; Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. |
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