Stanley Holloway
1) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
RSDL dual-layer edition.
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
2) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
4) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.
5) My fair lady
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere featurette; Rex Harison BFI honor; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now; photo galleries; Comments on a lady; Rex harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech; Academy Awards highlights; interview Martin Scorsese; alternate Audrey Heopburn vocals; production tests; Los Angeles premier; 1963 production...
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sir Alec Guinness as Henry Holland, a meek clerk, devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But their ingenious idea to melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers and smuggle them to France turns their perfect crime into a disastrous caper and unexpected surprises.
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two married people, both unsatisfied with their relationships, meet on a train platform in London and fall in love.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This is a poignant and beautifully crafted love story. Laura Jesson accidentally meets a man, Dr Alex Harvey, at a railway station. As their acquaintance grows, so does their love for each other despite both being married with children. On the brink of an affair and desperately in love, the two must make a choice that may part them forever.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Kind hearts and coronets: Following his mother's death, an Edwardian gentleman plots to avenge her by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family ; The Lavender Hill mob: A bank clerk devises a plot to steal a fortune in gold from his own bank ; The man in the white suit: An eccentric chemist one day invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out or gets dirty ; The captain's paradise: The captain of an international ferryboat secretly...
13) My fair lady
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in the tawdry underbelly of 18th century London, a sordid world of bandits, cut throats and corrupted officials, The Beggars̕ Opera follows the raffish escapades of Captain Macheath, a reckless, brooding, adventurer and notorious highwayman, and the seething plot to have him hanged.
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