The good soldier
(DVD)
Contributors
Mitchell, Julian, 1935- Adapter
Eckersley, Peter (Producer) Producer
Billington, Kevin. Director
Ellis, Robin. Actor
Fleetwood, Susan, 1944-1995. Actor
Eckersley, Peter (Producer) Producer
Billington, Kevin. Director
Ellis, Robin. Actor
Fleetwood, Susan, 1944-1995. Actor
Published
[Manchester] : Silver Spring, MD : Granada Television ; Distributed by Acorn Media, c2007.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Copies
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual | Fiction | On Shelf |
Atascadero Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual | Fiction | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adultery -- Drama.
Fiction television programs.
Ford, Ford Madox, -- 1873-1939 -- Film adaptations.
Foreign television programs.
Friendship -- Drama.
Germany -- Drama.
Health resorts -- Germany -- Drama.
Made-for-TV movies.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Manipulative behavior -- Drama.
Married people -- Drama.
Married women -- Drama.
Melodramas (Drama)
Television adaptations.
Television programs -- Great Britain.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Women -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Fiction television programs.
Ford, Ford Madox, -- 1873-1939 -- Film adaptations.
Foreign television programs.
Friendship -- Drama.
Germany -- Drama.
Health resorts -- Germany -- Drama.
Made-for-TV movies.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Manipulative behavior -- Drama.
Married people -- Drama.
Married women -- Drama.
Melodramas (Drama)
Television adaptations.
Television programs -- Great Britain.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Women -- Social conditions -- Drama.
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Published
[Manchester] : Silver Spring, MD : Granada Television ; Distributed by Acorn Media, c2007.
Format
DVD
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
UPC
054961924196
Notes
General Note
Originally produced for British television broadcast as part of "Masterpiece Theater" in 1981.
General Note
Special features: Cast filmographies, Ford Madox Ford biography [text features].
Creation/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.
Participants/Performers
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).
Description
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.
System Details
DVD; Dolby Digital sound; full screen presentation, aspect ratio 4x3.
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