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David Lean Centenary Collection (Box Set) (DVD, 2008)
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Actors: Ralph Richardson, Anne Todd, Nigel Patrick, Dinah Sheridan, John Justin. Surprising the audience was very important to David Lean, whether it was Pip rushing straight into Magwitch in the graveyard in Great Expectations or Harold Hobson drunkenly pursuing the moon in a puddle in Hobson's Choice, Lean conjured up image after image to amaze, amuse, move or excite his audience.
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Contains a selection of films by the director David Lean. Includes THE SOUND BARRIER, HOBSON'S CHOICE, BLITHE SPIRIT, BRIEF ENCOUNTER, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, OLIVER TWIST, MADELEINE, THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS, THIS HAPPY BREED, and IN WHICH WE SERVE.Product Identifiers
EAN5037115274632
eBay Product ID (ePID)66700311
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleDavid Lean Centenary Collection (Box Set)
DirectorDavid Lean
FormatDVD
Release Year2008
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesCollectors Guide
GenreDrama, General
Run Time989 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Additional InformationContains a selection of films by the director David Lean. Includes THE SOUND BARRIER (1952), a World War II fighter pilot marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who also designs airplanes. Together they attempt to break the sound barrier; HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954), a working-class comedy which finds a bootmaker from Lancashire brought to book by his eldest daughter and her husband who have opened a rival shoe shop; BLITHE SPIRIT (1945), an adaptation of Noel Coward's three-act farce, in which a happily married author writing a novel on mediums, invites one to supper one evening. After holding a seance the husband's first wife appears and begins to cause chaos; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1946), Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste but passionate affair; GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946), Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later leads the boy to mysterious adventure, wealth and joy; OLIVER TWIST (1948), an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic in which the orphan hero, Oliver, escapes to London, and is delivered by the Artful Dodger to the notorious Fagan; who makes him part of his pickpocketing gang; MADELEINE (1949), an illicit romance between a married English woman and a Frenchman turns sour when she tries to break off the affair and is callously blackmailed; THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS (1949), based on a H.G. Wells novel, the film tells the story of Mary Justin an unhappily married woman living in the Swiss Alps. When she encounters Steven Stratton, a man whose marriage proposal she once refused due to his social standing, the flame between them is rekindled; THIS HAPPY BREED (1947), based on the Noel Coward play, the story follows the ups and downs of the large, British, lower-class Gibbons family during the transitional period between the two world wars (1919-1939); and IN WHICH WE SERVE (1942), an engrossing account of the sinking of the British destroyer HMS Torrin during the Battle of Crete. Three survivors on a raft recount their lives aboard the sunken vessel.
Movie/TV TitleDavid Lean Centenary Collection (Box Set)
Sound sourceDolby Digital
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