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Title:

David Lean directs Noël Coward [DVD].

Format:

[DVD].

Edition:

Four-DVD special ed.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

4 videodiscs : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. (some col.))

Subject:

Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Seances--Drama.
Housewives--Drama.
Railroad stations--Drama.
Adultery--Drama.
Marriage--Drama.
World War, 1914-1918--London--London--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British--Drama.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Drama.
Ghost films
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Comedy films.
War films.
Romance films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD videodisc.

Other Authors:

Lean, David, 1908-1991.
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973.
Mills, John, 1908-2005.
Miles, Bernard, 1907-1991.
Johnson, Celia, 1908-1982.
Walsh, Kay.
Carey, Joyce, 1898-1993.
Newton, Robert, 1905-1956.
Harrison, Rex.
Cummings, Constance, 1910-2005.
Hammond, Kay, 1909-1980.
Rutherford, Margaret, 1892-1972.
Howard, Trevor, 1916-1988.
Neame, Ronald.
Havelock-Allan, Anthony.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
British Lion Films.
Two Cities Films.
Cineguild (Firm)

Other Titles:

In which we serve (Motion picture)
This happy breed (Motion picture)
Blithe spirit (Motion picture)
Brief encounter (Motion picture)

Notes:

Title from container. Originally produced as motion pictures in 1942, 1944 and 1945. Accompanied by booklet featuring essays by critics. Four DVD special edition features: audio commentary on Brief Encounter by film historian Bruce Eder ; interviews with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day on all of the films ; interview with cinematographer Ronald Neame from 2010 ; short documentaries on the making of Why We Serve and Brief Encounter ; documentary David Lean: A Self Portrait ; episode of the British television series The Southbank Show from 1992 ; audio recording of a 1969 conversation between actor Richard Attenborough and Coward ; trailers. Cast of In which we serve: Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Cast of This happy breed: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh. Cast of Blithe spirit: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford. Cast of Brief encounter: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard.

Contents:

(1945, b&w, 86 min.) (Criterion collection ; 76) Noel Coward's Brief encounter (1942, b&w, 114 min.) (Criterion collection ; 604)-- Disc 2: Noel Coward's This happy breed (1944, col., 111 min.) (Criterion collection ; 605) -- Disc 3: Noel Coward's Blithe spirit (1945, col., 96 min.) (Criterion collection ; 606) -- Disc 4: Noel Coward's Brief encounter (1945, b&w, 86 min.) (Criterion collection ; 76)

Summary:

"In which we serve": The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for.
"This happy breed": The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable life in the period between the two World Wars.
"Blithe spirit": A cynical, self-absorbed novelist sets out to expose a fake medium and ends up with the amorous ghost of his first wife on his hands.
"Brief encounter": After a chance meeting on a train station, a married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 603

ISBN:

1604655631
9781604655636
1604655623
9781604655629
1604655615
9781604655612
1604655607
9781604655605
1604655593 (set)
9781604655599 (set)

UPC:

715515093316

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)