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In 18th-century England, the slave trade was a popular get-rich-quick scheme, and it is the heart of darkness that pulses through the Mobil Masterpiece Theatre production of A Respectable Trade. Philippa Gregory wrote the screenplay based on her novel, in which a well-bred but penniless young woman named Frances (Emma Fielding) marries a Bristol shipping merchant (Warren Clarke). Josiah ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Warren Clarke, Anna Massey, Emma Fielding, Ariyon Bakare, Ralph Brown
Directed By: Suri Krishnamma

Katherine Hepburn recreates the role originally played by Betty Davis - of schoolteacher Lilly Moffat. She is horrified by the conditions - and the children's lack of knowledge. When she tries to set up shop and strart giving basic classes, the locals object. A woman of moxy, she pushes ahead, setting up her own school in her home. Over the course of the film, one special student shines - ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser, Patricia Hayes, Anna Massey
Directed By: George Cukor

Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Starring: Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting, Lena Headey, Jim Carter
Directed By: John-Paul Davidson

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean
Directed By: Fred Zinnemann

Hotel du Lac is an impeccably produced BBC television adaptation of Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning novel. Middle-aged writer Edith Hope has fled London and romantic disappointment to find sanctuary at a luxury hotel on a Swiss Lake, but finding no escape from her loneliness must eventually face her past. Edith is played with compassion by Anna Massey, her intellect and wit acting as ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Googie Withers, Julia McKenzie, Patricia Hodge
Directed By: Giles Foster

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Denis Quilley, Amanda Donohoe, Eve Ferret
Directed By: Ronald Neame

This superb version of Henrik Ibsen's classic play A Doll's House stars Claire Bloom (Brideshead Revisited, Charly) as Nora, a sweet and lively but frivolous woman whose puritanical husband Torvald (Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs, The Elephant Man) loves her but doesn't take her seriously. As Torvald assumes a new position as a bank manager, an ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Edith Evans
Directed By: Patrick Garland

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers, Anthony Hopkins
Directed By: Frank Pierson

Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve, Paul Scofield, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Massey
Directed By: Simon Langton

So romantic and haunting is Déja Vu's premise, it cries out for a director with more magic than Henry Jaglom can muster. Just before a long-engaged woman (Victoria Foyt, Jaglom's collaborator and second wife) slips into a serviceable marriage with a nice, if rather dull, guy (Michael Brandon), a chance encounter with an older Frenchwoman--a ghost?--derails her. After confiding ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Victoria Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Vanessa Redgrave, Glynis Barber, Michael Brandon
Directed By: Henry Jaglom