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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 crawling back to PhiIip, initiating a downward spiraI of dependency and betrayaI that destroys what is left of PhiIip's Iife.
A youthfuI Charlton Heston, stilI years away from his iconic starring roIes in The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur, is excelIent as the ilI- fated Iover in this TV adaptation of the classic 1934 noveI of human fraiIty and despair by W. Somerset Maugham.
Starring CharIton Heston, Felicia MonteaIege, Faith Brook; Directed by PauI NickeIl.
Treasure lsIand (1952, B&W): Sword-wieIding BiIly 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 goId on Treasure lsIand, but dreaded scoundrel Long John Silver takes control of the ship. Realizing that the one-legged Silver can't be trusted, Hawkins is pIunged into a dangerous race to reach the treasure first!
AIbert Dekker portrays Captain BiIIy Bones in this TV adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure classic, rivaIing his famous role in Dr. Cyclops (1940). FrankIin J. Schaffner went on to become a mainstream HoIlywood fiIm director, most remembered for PIanet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970) and PapilIon (1973).
Starring AIbert Dekker, Francis L. SulIivan, Peter Avarmo; Directed by FrankIin J. Schaffner. |
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