| Actors: Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, Lysette Anthony, Ben Rodska, Eric Porter Directors: Gareth Davies, Lawrence Gordon Clark Creators: Betty Willingale, John Harris, Alexander Baron, Andrew Davies, Arthur Hopcraft, Charles Dickens Genres: Drama, Horror, Television, Mystery & Suspense Sub-Genres: Drama, Horror, Drama, Mystery & Suspense Studio: BBC Warner Format: DVD - Color,Full Screen - Closed-captioned DVD Release Date: 05/05/2009 Original Release Date: 01/01/2009 Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2009 Release Year: 2009 Run Time: 32hr 0min Screens: Color,Full Screen Number of Discs: 6 SwapaDVD Credits: 6 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Edition: Box set MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Languages: English |
Member $avings: $7,133,713.71
|
DVDs Available: 77,047
|
Members Online: 29
Your source for swapping dvds online... Watch...Swap...Save
Search - The Charles Dickens Collection, Vol. 1 (Oliver Twist / Martin Chuzzlewit / Bleak House / Hard Times / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend) (Slim Case) on DVD
  | The Charles Dickens Collection Vol 1 Oliver Twist / Martin Chuzzlewit / Bleak House / Hard Times / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend Actors: Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, Lysette Anthony, Ben Rodska, Eric Porter Directors: Gareth Davies, Lawrence Gordon Clark Genres: Drama, Horror, Television, Mystery & Suspense NR 2009 32hr 0min This collection includes six Charles Dickens masterpieces in 32 hours of classic television. The grotesque comedy and dark tragedy of Victorian London's streets comes to vivid life in these original productions from the BB... more » |
Larger Image |
Movie DetailsSimilar Movies
Similarly Requested DVDs
|
Member Movie Reviews K. K. (GAMER) Reviewed on 10/28/2023... Martin Chuzzlewit - A lot of bang for your buck with this being a six-part series. A younger Tom Wilkinson is in this Charles Dickens' classic if you are a fan of either! 2 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Movie ReviewsSplendid BBC Productions T. Davis | Seattle, WA | 01/08/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "The American television network TNT proclaims in its advertisements, "We know drama," but it can't hold a candle to the BBC. Since the sixties, the Beeb has been producing exquisite adaptations of the plays of Shakepeare, Shaw, and Wilde, the novels of Eliot, Austen, and Trollope, and the works of many other treasures of British and Irish literature, not to mention those of other European nations: Ibsen, Checkhov, Dostoeivsky, and so on. These productions tend to be simple, elegantly-appointed affairs. There's very little flash, and some viewers may be disappointed by their talky, set-bound nature, but they are quite faithful to their sources. Performances are uniformly top-notch, often by the most talented and justly famous of British actors: Ben Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Patrick Stewart, John Hurt, Diana Rigg, Rex Harrison, John Gielgud, Joan Plowright, and many more. While this series of Dickens adaptations and its parter, Volume 2, do not utilize thespians especially well-known to Americans (though Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, and Daniel Radcliffe do star in "David Copperfield" on Volume 2), the acting and direction are excellent. If you love British literature and history, particularly the Victorian period, you will find these DVD sets to be thoroughgoing treats. They will expose you to dramas both familiar and obscure, and they will encourage you to delve more deeply into the delight that is Dickens. Both 2009 sets use slim rather than standard DVD cases, so they are more compact versions of the sets issued in 2005 and 2006, but their contents are identical. They are highly recommended in either form." Great Dickens' DVD's Joseph Barba | Pollock Pines, CA USA | 05/16/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you like Dickens or are just curious, try these DVD's. They are done as only the Brits can do them with impeccable acting, right-on characterizations, and attention to historical detail. Great entertainment for the whole family and reasonably priced, too. Highest recommendation."
|
