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Title:

The American (DVD) [videorecording] / BBC ; WGBH ; Irish Screen ; produced by Fiona Finlay ; screenplay, Michael Hastings ; directed by Paul Unwin.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Man-woman relationships--Paris--Paris--Drama.
Visitors, Foreign--Paris--Paris--Drama.
Made-for-TV movies.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Modine, Matthew.
O'Sullivan, Aisling.
Rigg, Diana.
Fricker, Brenda.
Unwin, Paul.
Hastings, Michael
James, Henry, 1843-1916. American.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Irish Screen (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Henry James. Originally broadcast on television in 2001. Matthew Modine, Aisling O'Sullivan, Diana Rigg, Brenda Fricker, Andrew Scott.

Summary:

Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.

Series:

PBS pictures

ISBN:

9781415711132
1415711135

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58400470

Locations:

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)

BIPB251 -- Van Meter Public Library (Van Meter)