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The Rose (1979)
$15.00Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
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Hard Times
$25.00Charles Dickens’ bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$45.00Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
$15.00A wealthy woman from Manhattan’s Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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The Shout (1978)
$15.00A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
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Royal Flash (1975)
$15.00Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman’s (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he’s soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion’s head.
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Butley (1974)
$15.00Alan Bates recreates his award-winning stage role in director Harold Pinter’s 1974 film verson of Simon Gray’s play, about a university professor whose private life is in freefall. The cast also includes Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan, Susan Engel and Georgina Hale.
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The Go-Between (1971)
$15.00Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
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Oliver’s Travels
$30.00Oliver’s Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995.
Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, ‘Aristotle’, with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle’s house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
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Women in Love (1969)
$15.00Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily — but they become increasingly complicated as the trip continues. Rupert and Ursula are determined to stay faithful to one another, while the aloof Gerald and the eccentric Gudrun turn to infidelity and sexual exploration.
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The Fixer (1968)
$15.00Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime – the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman’s life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
$15.00Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
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