84 Charing Cross Road [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; a Brooksfilms production ; a David Jones film ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Geoffrey Helman ; directed by David Jones.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Columbia Pictures,
Copyright Date:
c2002
Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: Trailers (5 min.). Originally produced as an international motion picture in 1986. Based on the book by Helene Hanff; originally adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans. Anne Bancroft (Helene Hanff), Anthony Hopkins (Frank Doel), Judi Dench (Nora Doel), Jean De Baer (Maxine Bellamy), Maurice Denham (George Martin), Eleanor David (Cecily Farr), Mercedes Ruehl (Kay), Daniel Gerroll (Brian), Wendy Morgan (Megan Wells), Ian McNeice (Bill Humphries), J. Smith-Cameron (Ginny), Tom Isbell (Ed).
Contents:
Start -- Answering an ad -- Frank P. Doel -- Brian the Britisher -- Imaginary conversations Vol. 2 -- Doel home -- Meat rationing -- Christmas 1949 -- Food from Denmark -- Willie's deli -- Note from Cecily -- Helene's London fantasy -- Idea of the university -- Conga! -- Easter parcels -- Elizabethan love poems -- Maxine at Marks & Co. -- Ersatz Pepys -- Babysitter -- Gift of linen -- In hospital -- Nylons for Lent -- Trip canceled -- Evicted -- Modern library thing -- Alive & kicking -- All things must pass -- Finally made it.
Summary:
Helene Hanff is a New Yorker who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones. When she sees an ad in the Saturday Review for a London bookstore, she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. She begins a correspondence with the bookseller, Frank Doel. Built on a basis of mutually held taste, knowledge, interests and consideration, the bond between the lonely New Yorker and the reserved Londoner lasts for years without the two people ever meeting each other. Based on a true story and the long running play.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.