Michael Kitchen
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
August 1942. Helping a colleague from a nearby town probe the murder of a war hero, Foyle confronts a deeper-and potentially deadlier-mystery. A top-secret experiment in biological warfare goes horribly wrong, claiming the victim's widow and threatening the life of Foyle's driver.
Series
Foyle's war volume Set 8
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed detective series returns with three new mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen, complete U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the fourth in the series that airs on PBS. Michael Kitchen plays a veteran detective whose job on the home front in southern England is complicated by WWII raging over Europe.
8) Oliver Twist
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Carlton International Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
10) Enchanted April
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
11) Kidnapped
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Following the defeat of the Scottish Highlanders in their quest for independence, Alan Breck Stewart returns to his homeland to discover he is a wanted man. Alan quickly sets on a mission to retrieve tributes from loyalists in France to help fund a future uprising. Meanwhile, following the death of his father, David Balfour discovers he is heir to an estate in the lowlands of Scotland. His cruel Uncle Ebenezer craves the land and arranges for his...
12) Mrs. Dalloway
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name.