Brideshead revisited [videorecording] / Granada Television ; producer, Derek Granger ; directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge ; teleplay by John Mortimer.
Other Titles: Brideshead revisited.
Edition: 25th anniversary collector's ed.
Publisher: Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2006]
ISBN: 1569388814
Description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 659 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 companion guide (19 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Subject: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Film and video adaptations.
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Adaptations.
Upper class families Drama.
Male friendship Drama.
Catholics Drama.
Upper class Drama.
Family life Drama.
Men Drama.
Friendship Drama.
Catholics Drama.
England Drama.
England Drama.
Television programs.
Foreign television programs Great Britain.
Melodrama on television.
Television adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Other titles: Brideshead revisited (Television program).
Credits: Film editor, Anthony Ham ; music, Geoffrey Burgon ; costume designer, Jane Robinson ; production designer, Peter Phillips.
Performers: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Jane Asher, Nickolas Grace, John Grillo, Simon Jones, Charles Keating, Phoebe Nicholls, Jeremy Sinden, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Stephane Audran, Mona Washbourne, John Le Mesurier, John Gielgud.
Target Audience: Not rated.
Notes: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
From the novel by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by John Mortimer.
Originally broadcast on the U.K.'s ITV Network in 1981.
Contains all 11 episodes from the television mini-series.
Special features: The 2006 50-minute retrospective documentary "Revisiting Brideshead"; commentaries by Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, and Nickolas Grace (Episode 1), Anthony Andrews and Derek Granger (Episode 4); outtakes; companion guide; photo gallery; production notes; cast filmographies.
Contents: Vol. 1: Episode 1: Et in Arcadia ego ; Episode 2: Home and abroad -- Vol. 2: Episode 3: The bleak light of day ; Episode 4: Sebastian against the world ; Episode 5: A blow upon a bruise -- Vol. 3: Episode 6: Julia ; Episode 7: The unseen hook ; Episode 8: Brideshead deserted -- Vol. 4: Episode 9: Orphans of the storm ; Episode 10: A twitch upon the thread ; Episode 11: Brideshead revisited.
Summary: Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.