Masterpiece Theatre Videos, Page 4, DVD, Movies, Films, Entertainment

DVD. Approximately 3 Hours. Daphne du Maurier's tale of romance, suspense, and jealousy returns in a lavish Masterpiece Theatre production. Set in elegant Monte Carlo and brooding Cornwall, the film stars Charles Dance as Maxim de Winter and Emilia Fox as his new young bride. When they return to Manderley, the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, and sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg) threaten the newcomer, who must unravel dark secrets of the past.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 2-PK. DVD. 3 Hors. Christopher Anderson is an American trying to do his job, developing a country house near London into a new business school for his U.S. corporate bosses. But the staff and their jealously-guarded collection of photographs have other ideas, and they're not the most helpful kind. Stephen Poliakoff's revealing BBC drama stars Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Liam Cunningham, and Andy Serkis.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 2-PK. DVD. 3 Hours & 45 Minutes. A summer holiday in rustic Tuscany is anything but serene for Molly Pargeter and her family. Intrigue and mystery dog the vacationers at La Felicit?, in this John Mortimer miniseries. Starring Susan Fleetwood, with Sir John Gielgud in an Emmy-winning performance as her father, in four digitally re-mastered episodes.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 90 Minutes. Matthew Modine and Diana Rigg star this adaptation of Henry James' novel. Modine plays Christopher Newman, 19th-century "new man" who amasses a fortune in California and heads to Europe to learn its ways and find a wife. His overtures to a young French woman, a member of an aristocratic but impecunious family, meet with icy condescension in this classic collision between the old world and the new.

Masterpiece Theatre video. VHS. 90 Minutes. Matthew Modine and Diana Rigg star this adaptation of Henry James' novel. Modine plays Christopher Newman, 19th-century "new man" who amasses a fortune in California and heads to Europe to learn its ways and find a wife. His overtures to a young French woman, a member of an aristocratic but impecunious family, meet with icy condescension in this classic collision between the old world and the new.

Masterpiece Theatre video. DVD. 2 Hours & 45 Minutes. Three great minds, one amazing friendship. George Bernard Shaw, Dame Laurentia McLachlan, and Sydney Cockerell carried on 25 years of letters, literary debate, and humorous banter. Adapted from the stage play, this presentation features the talents of Sir John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, and Patrick McGoohan.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 2-PK. VHS. 2 Hours & 45 Minutes. Three great minds, one amazing friendship. George Bernard Shaw, Dame Laurentia McLachlan, and Sydney Cockerell carried on 25 years of letters, literary debate, and humorous banter. Adapted from the stage play, this presentation features the talents of Sir John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, and Patrick McGoohan.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 5-PK. DVD. 16 Hours. Charles and Lydia Brett, reigning luminaries of the West End stage, dominate London's postwar social life with chic sophistication and charm, in this witty presentation from Masterpiece Theatre. Created by playwright Rosemary Anne Sisson, The Bretts summons up all the glamour, public triumphs, and back-door dramas of a glittering era in 19 episodes.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 3-PK. DVD. 6 Hours. Every family has its secrets. But some have more to hide. Acclaimed for its richly detailed production, talented cast and brilliant character depictions, The Cazalets is a vivid and poignant family portrait based on Elizabeth Jane Howard's captivating family epic. Birth, death, marriage, adultery, dementia, intrigue, and war play significant roles in the lives of three generations united by blood and splintered by war.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 2-PK. DVD. 5 Hours & 45 Minutes. Elspeth Huxley's beloved memoir of growing up British in East Africa will leave you spellbound in this critically acclaimed, seven-episode mini-series. The Grant family migrated to the Kenyan wilderness in 1913, in search of a new life and a coffee plantation's fortune. But Robin, Tilly, and Elspeth find far more than they expected-enchantment, mystery, and disaster-in their new African home. Lavishly filmed on location.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 3-PK. DVD. 7 Hours & 30 Minutes. Nobel Prize-Winner John Galsworthy's THE FORSYTE SAGA depicts the moneyed Forsytes, whose values are at war with its passions. Soames Forsyte's marriage to beautiful, rebellious Irene affects the whole clan, in this brilliant social satire of a comfort-bound class in final glory.

Original from 1969. Masterpiece Theatre video. 7-PK. DVD. 23 Hours. John Galsworthy's epic novels fill the screen with 150 characters and more than 100 sets in this 1969 miniseries, THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sprawling tale of a nouveau riche Victorian English family beset by past sins, foibles, and peccadillos. Marital infidelity continues to haunt the star-crossed Forsytes, as a son and daughter meet by chance and fall in love. Stars Susan Hampshire, Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth More, and Lana Morris.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 2-PK. DVD. 4 Hours & 45 Minutes. Their families may be estranged, but Fleur Forsyte and her cousin Jon fall in love anyway, with disastrous consequences. The chronicle of the fabled British family takes its journey into the next generation in this beautifully acted sequel to The Forsyte Saga, starring Emma Griffiths Malin, Lee Williams, Damian Lewis, and Gina McKee. Based on John Galsworthy's novel To Let.

Masterpiece Theatre video. 4-PK. VHS. 4 Hours & 45 Minutes. Their families may be estranged, but Fleur Forsyte and her cousin Jon fall in love anyway, with disastrous consequences. The chronicle of the fabled British family takes its journey into the next generation in this beautifully acted sequel to The Forsyte Saga, starring Emma Griffiths Malin, Lee Williams, Damian Lewis, and Gina McKee. Based on John Galsworthy's novel To Let.

Combo Series 1, 2 + 3. Masterpiece Theatre video. 6-PK. DVD. Retired Major Sinclair Yeates faces an uphill battle as Resident Magistrate for the West of Ireland, in this hilarious look at turn-of-the-century village life before Irish independence. Peter Bowles stars, ably assisted by Bryan Murray.

Combo Series 1 + 2. Masterpiece Theatre video. 4-PK. DVD. 10 Hours & 30 Minutes. Retired Major Sinclair Yeates faces an uphill battle as Resident Magistrate for the West of Ireland, in this hilarious look at turn-of-the-century village life before Irish independence. Peter Bowles stars, ably assisted by Bryan Murray. Purchase Set 1 and Set II together and save $10.

Masterpiece Theatre Video. 2-PK. DVD. 6 Hours & 30 Minutes. Retired Major Sinclair Yeates faces an uphill battle as Resident Magistrate for the West of Ireland, in this hilarious look at turn-of-the-century village life before Irish independence. Peter Bowles stars, ably assisted by Bryan Murray, in six episodes from the classic Masterpiece Theatre series. Shot entirely on location in County Kildare.

Masterpiece Theatre Video. 2-PK. DVD. 6 Hours. Major Sinclair Yeates (Peter Bowles) continues his hilarious quest to "manage" the unruly Irish with stiff upper lip in six more episodes from The Irish R. M. The retired English army officer has his hands full, from a butcher shop raid to a visiting maharajah. DVD bonus: recipes from Mrs. Cadogan's kitchen..

Masterpiece Theatre Video. 2-PK. DVD. 6 Hours & 15 Minutes. Peter Bowles returns as the irrepressible Major Sinclair Yeates in the final installment of the much-loved series, set in turn-of-the-century West Ireland. Six concluding episodes find the Irish Resident Magistrate fighting off unwanted romantic advances, adjusting to a newly-arrived sister and overly industrious cousin, learning to drive a noisy new motor car, and dealing with an offer of a better job nearer Dublin.

3-PK. VHS. 6 Hours & 45 Minutes. It was an open-and-shut case of murder, according to witnesses. But did a teenage Sikh youth really stab his Anglo classmate 28 times out of cross-cultural revenge? Is there another side to the story? Only a persuasive lawyer stands between Duvinder Singh and the jury's verdict of guilty. Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Antony Sher star in this chilling, suspenseful courtroom thriller.