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Hard times [videorecording (DVD)].

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Warner Home Video , c2005.

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

1419814664 (Charles Dickens Collection set)

Alternate title:

Charles Dickens Collection. Hard times [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : Dolby Digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Originally released as a television movie in 1994.

Bonus program: The signal man: a lonely railwayman is warned of disaster by a phantom in the classic Dickens ghost story starring Denholm Elliott.

Aspect ratio 4:3.

Closed-captioned.

Produced by Richard Langridge ; directed by Peter Barnes ; adapted by Peter Barnes ; music composed by Stephen Deutsch.

Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter and Richard E. Grant.

Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.

Made-for-TV movies.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times. Television adaptations.

Bates, Alan, 1934-2003.

Peck, Bob, 1945-1999

Paterson, Bill, 1945-

Walter, Harriet.

Grant, Richard E., 1957-

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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