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Martin Chuzzlewit [videorecording] / a BBC-TV Production in association with WGBH.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: E2334 | Warner Home VideoE2334 | BBC VideoSeries: Charles Dickens collection | BBC Video classics | BBC Video Classics | Charles Dickens CollectionPublication details: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video , 2005.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1419814486
Uniform titles:
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (Motion picture)
Contained works:
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Martin Chuzzlewit
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PR4563.A2 L64 2005
  • PR4563 .A12 2005
Production credits:
  • Music, Geoffrey Burgon; producer, Chris Parr; director, Pedr James.
Cast: Paul Scofield, John Mills, Pete Postlethwaite, Tom Wilkinson, Julia Sawalha, Keith Allen.Summary: Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, with his daughters, Mercy and Charity, attempts to grovel into the old man's good graces, while the wicked Jonas will stop at nothing...even murder.
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DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves DVDA MARTIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001022632

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Dolby digital.

Originally released as a television movie in 1994.

Music, Geoffrey Burgon; producer, Chris Parr; director, Pedr James.

Paul Scofield, John Mills, Pete Postlethwaite, Tom Wilkinson, Julia Sawalha, Keith Allen.

Originally broadcast as a mini-series on the BBC in 1994.

Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, with his daughters, Mercy and Charity, attempts to grovel into the old man's good graces, while the wicked Jonas will stop at nothing...even murder.

Not rated ; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

English.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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