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Bleak House [videorecording (DVD)].

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Warner Home Video, c2005.

English literature -- 19th century -- Television adaptations.

1419814664 (Charles Dickens Collection set)

1419814494 (double-sided)

Alternate title:

Charles Dickens Collection. Bleak House [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (418 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Originally produced for television in 1985 as episodes of the television serial as seen on Masterpiece Theatre.

Double-sided DVD: Side A contains episodes 1-4; Side B, 5-8.

Aspect ratio 4:3.

Close-captioned.

Dramatization, Arthur Hopcraft ; director, Ross Devenish ; music, Geoffrey Burgon ; producers, John Harris, Betty Willingale.

Denholm Elliott with Robin Bailey, Peter Vaughan, Kathy Burke and Diana Rigg.

"At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle, including the proud Lady Dedlock, who finds herself persecuted by the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, then hunted by the determined Inspector Bucket, one of the first detectives to appear in English literature. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core [...]"--Container.

Television mini-series.

Television programs -- Great Britain.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House. Television adaptations

Devenish, Ross.

Elliott, Denholm.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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