In his centenary year the genius of playwright Terence Rattigan is at last being recognised and The Terence Rattigan Collection is an invaluable compendium of his finest work performed by some outstanding casts. Rattigan had a profound understanding of the human heart in all its complexity. He is the master of an emotional restraint which gives his work its unforgettable power and attracts in this collection star actors of the calibre of Sean Connery and Colin Firth Penelope Wilton and Judi Dench Ian Holm and Michael Gambon Eric Porter and Geraldine McEwan. Among the... plays included on this DVD are The Deep Blue Sea in which Hester Collyer sacrifices everything for a younger man who cannot return her love and The Browning Version in which a schoolmaster's emotional shell is cracked by an unexpected act of kindness. In The Terence Rattigan Collection great acting and great story-telling combine to make compulsive viewing. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. In his centenary year, the genius of playwright Terence Rattigan is at last being recognised and The Terence Rattigan Collection is an invaluable compendium of his finest work, performed by some outstanding casts. Rattigan had a profound understanding of the human heart in all its complexity. He is the master of an emotional restraint which gives his work its unforgettable power and attracts, in this collection, star actors of the calibre of Sean Connery and Colin Firth, Penelope Wilton and Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Michael Gambon, Eric Porter and Geraldine McEwan. In The Terence Rattigan Collection, great acting and great story-telling combine to make compulsive viewing. Heart to Heart (The Largest Theatre in The World) The first in the "Largest Theatre in the World" series of plays, Heart to Heart centres around a TV interviewer determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister. Starring Kenneth More, Ralph Richardson, Derek Francis. All On Her Own (A Touch of Venus) Rosemary returns from a party to the empty Hampstead house where she has lived since the death of her husband, but was his overdose of sleeping pills purely accidental? She is going to try to find out. Separate Tables (BBC Play of the Month) Loneliness, desire and repression are explored in the setting of a Bournemouth Hotel. French Without Tears (BBC Play of the Month) The comic, sometimes painful, fallings-out of five young male English students at a residential language cramming establishment in France. The Winslow Boy (BBC Play of the Month) The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the garden in the rain? The Browning Version Andrew Crocker-Harris is an aging classics master at a British public school with only a few days left in his career but who is suddenly forced to confront his own life's failures. After The Dance (Performance) Set in the Mayfair Flat of a high living, hard drinking writer in 1938 this truthful play attacks the moral vacuity of the 'bright young things' unknowingly poised on the brink of war. The Deep Blue Sea (Performance) Middle aged Hester Collyer suffers the dramatic personal consequences of a passionate affair with a young, ex-RAF pilot named Freddie Page. Certificate 12 years and over Year 1962 - 1994 Languages English
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of playwright Terence Rattigan, this release collects some of his best-known plays that were filmed by the BBC between 1962 and 1994. The plays included are 'Heart to Heart', 'All On Her Own (A Touch of Venus)', 'Separate Tables', 'French Without Tears', 'The Winslow Boy', 'The Browning Version', 'After the Dance', 'The Deep Blue Sea' and 'Adventure Story'.
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