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

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: AMP-9241 | Acorn MediaDistributor: Silver Spring, Maryland : Distributed by Acorn Media, (c)2007Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781569389249
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.A185.G663 2007
  • PN1995
Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Multi-media (10-day check-out) Multi-media (10-day check-out) G. Allen Fleece Library MULTIMEDIA Non-fiction PN1995.9.M45G663 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 31923001838610

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.

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.

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

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