The good soldier / Granada ; by Ford Madox Ford ; adapted by Julian Mitchell ; producer, Peter Eckersley ; directed by Kevin Billington. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: AMP-9241 | Acorn MediaPublication details: [Manchester] : Granada Television ; [(c)2007.; Silver Spring, Maryland : Distributed by Acorn Media, [(c)2007.Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1569389241
9781569389249

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.g646.G663 2007
PN1995.9.M45.F699.G663 2007

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Contents:

Saddest story All good people Unlikely friendship Everything and nothing Poor Maisie Sentimental Truest of all August 4th Facing the truth Visiting the Ashburnhams Desperate Tension building Dying of love Selfish Bit of rest.

Production credits:

Photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; film editor, Edward Mansell ; musical direction and original music, John McCabe ; designer, Michael Grimes ; costume designer, Robin Fraser Paye.

Cast: Robin Ellis (John Dowell), Susan Fleetwood (Leonora Ashburnham), Vickery Turner (Florence Dowell), Elizabeth Garvie (Nancy Rufford), Jeremy Brett (Edward Ashburnham), Pauline Moran (Maisie Maidan), Goeffrey Chater (Bagshawe), John Ratzenberger (Jimmy).Summary: In the decade preceding World War I, two wealthy, handsome couples--English Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora, and American John Dowell and his wife Florence--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at various spas, the splendid foursome lives elegant, perfect lives. But nothing is as it seems. As John says at one point, "My wife and I knew the Captain and his wife Mrs. Ashburnham as well as was possible to know anybody. And yet we knew nothing about them at all." The film explores the power games, class snobbery, sexual lies, and lack of intimacy that boil beneath the placid, pristine exteriors the upper classes show the world. The story is presented in flashback, a literary technique Madox Ford helped popularize.

Item type: Multi-media (10-day check-out)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multi-media (10-day check-out)	G. Allen Fleece Library Multimedia - Second Floor	Non-fiction	PN1995.9.M45G663 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	WITHDRAWN		31923001838610

Robin Ellis (John Dowell), Susan Fleetwood (Leonora Ashburnham), Vickery Turner (Florence Dowell), Elizabeth Garvie (Nancy Rufford), Jeremy Brett (Edward Ashburnham), Pauline Moran (Maisie Maidan), Goeffrey Chater (Bagshawe), John Ratzenberger (Jimmy).

Photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; film editor, Edward Mansell ; musical direction and original music, John McCabe ; designer, Michael Grimes ; costume designer, Robin Fraser Paye.

Originally produced for British television broadcast in 1981.

In the decade preceding World War I, two wealthy, handsome couples--English Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora, and American John Dowell and his wife Florence--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at various spas, the splendid foursome lives elegant, perfect lives. But nothing is as it seems. As John says at one point, "My wife and I knew the Captain and his wife Mrs. Ashburnham as well as was possible to know anybody. And yet we knew nothing about them at all." The film explores the power games, class snobbery, sexual lies, and lack of intimacy that boil beneath the placid, pristine exteriors the upper classes show the world. The story is presented in flashback, a literary technique Madox Ford helped popularize.

Special features: Cast filmographies, Ford Madox Ford biography [text features].

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