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Read reviews and buy DVD's and Videos about the Victorian era and more... Click a DVD, video cover or title for more information. Links are in purple. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try the Amazon Links at the bottom of the page.
| Les Miserables Price: £11.99 "A performance of Les Miserables at the Royal Albert Hall. Featuring a 150 strong choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Abell." This is my favourite musical. |
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| Pride and Prejudice (1995) Starring: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, et al. Price: £15.99 "This five-hour adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was a massive success, getting the nation's ladies very excited by Colin Firth's Mr Darcy, no more so than when he appeared, in a scene not in the novel, in a wet shirt." |
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| Sense And Sensibility [1995] Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, et al. Our Price: £5.99 "Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel . Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility")." |
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| Bram Stoker's Dracula [1992] - Cert 18 Starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, et al. Price: £5.99 "Dracula searches 19th Century London for the reincarnation of his long lost love. Soundtrack features Annie Lennox." |
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| Hobson's Choice [1953] Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, et al. Price: £8.99 "A delightful working-class comedy from David Lean. Charles Laughton stars as the drunken, tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker brought to heel by his tough eldest daughter and her simple-minded husband after they open a rival shoe shop." |
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| Marnie [1964] Starring: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, et al. Price: £9.99 "Tippi Hedren stars as the title character, a compulsive thief whose modus operandi is to land a secretarial job, bilk her employer of thousands, then change identity (and hair tone) before proceeding to the next scam. Sean Connery plays Mark Rutland, a wealthy businessman who finds Marnie's larcenous habits strangely erotic. He marries her and gradually sniffs out a repressed childhood trauma or two." This is my favourite Hitchcock film. |
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