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Adam Bede [videorecording] / BBC-TV ; WGBH, Boston ; executive producer, Richard Broke ; producer, Peter Goodchild ; director, Giles Foster ; writer, Maggie Wadey.

Summary:

Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1419848720
  • ISBN: 9781419848728
  • ISBN: 1419848798 (set)
  • ISBN: 9781419848797 (set)
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [England] : 2 entertain/BBC Video, 2007.
  • Distributor: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video.

Content descriptions

General Note:
DVD release of the original 1992 BBC television program.
Based on the novel by George Eliot.
"BBC video classics"--Container.
Also issued in 5-disc set: The George Eliot Collection.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Cinematography, Rex Maidment ; film editor, Dick Allen ; music, Richard Hartley.
Participant or Performer Note:
Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker, James Wilby, Julia McKenzie, Robert Stephens, Jean Marsh, Freddie Jones, Michael Percival, Edward Jewesbury, Brian Osborne, Paul Brooke, Tacita Haffenden, Chase Marks, William Holmes, Alan Cox, Michael Robbins, Jonathan Coy, Angus Barnett, Johnny Van Derrick, Roy Evans, Jack Milner, Jennie Heslewood, Bill Moody, Patsy Byrne, James Greene, George Innes.
System Details Note:
DVD ; 4:3 aspect ratio ; stereo.
Language Note:
Closed-captioned.
Subject: Carpenters > Drama.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Great Britain > Drama.
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837 > Drama.
Derbyshire (England) > Drama.
Carpenters > Drama.
Aristocracy > Great Britain > Drama.
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837 > Drama.
Genre: Made-for-TV movies.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Film adaptations.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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The Dalles Wasco County Library DVD GEO (Text) 33892005178216 DVDs Available -


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