Michael Kitchen
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Language
English
Description
In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when hes passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless marriage, and belittled by the wives of more privileged officers, Louise wants out. Feeling responsible for her unhappiness, Henry...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2008.
Language
English
Description
"The disturbing tale of the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A generous man, he is preoccupied with the problems of good and evil and with the possibility of separating them into two distinct personalities. He develops a drug that transforms him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he exhausts all the latent evil in his nature." --container.
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Language
English
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A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heaps expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." Charles Dickenss last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
8) Kidnapped
Publisher
Allumination
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the adventures of an unlikely pair-- one an exiled rebel warrior returning to the country that scorned him, the other a young man struggling to take possession of his rightful inheritance.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. The arrival and arrest of Egeon in Ephesus brings a family crisis into focus. For elsewhere in the city, his son Antipholus and his slave Dromio are seeking their respective...
12) Dandelion dead
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true crime story that shocked '20s Britain, this compelling story stars Michael Kitchen as Major Herbert Armstrong, a staid lawyer in a small Welsh town who was charged with poisoning his wife and a business rival with arsenic.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Drinks, drugs, unhappy love affairs, premature death: their own life stories were more tragic than the stories they wrote. Enter the world of the Brontë sisters, who poured out their frustrations, failures and personal tragedies in their classic works. Recreates the Victorian Era of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother, Branwell, who retreated from life on the Yorkshire moors into a more complex fantasy world. Hoping for fame and success, their...
Series
[James Bond films] volume 21
Publisher
MGM Studios
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Agent 007 is the world's only hope against Renard, a high-tech terrorist with a most unusual and deadly characteristic: a brain-lodged bullet that renders him impervious to pain.
15) Oliver Twist
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
18) Falling
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Henry Kent meets writer Daisy Langrish and offers to take care of her overgrown garden. The relationship develops but Mr. Kent is fooling no one but Daisy!
Pub. Date
© 2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.