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Niagara-on-the-Lake DVD FIC ADAM DVD Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
Carpenter Adam Bede loves Hetty Sorel, but she is vain and materialistic and allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate, who leaves the village soon after. Hetty discovers she is pregnant and goes searching for her lover. Eventually she becomes destitute and gives birth prematurely, and in despair abandons the baby.
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  • ISBN: 9781419848728 :
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.videodiscvideorecording
  • Publisher: [England] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2007.
  • General Note: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.For private home use only."2 Entertain".Originally broadcast on television. Original copyright 1992.Based on the novel by George Eliot.Disc label title.DVD.Originally shown on Masterpiece Theatre in 1992.
  • Creation/Production Credits Note: Assistant producer, Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter; production associate, Alison Gilby; finance assistant, Daphne Spink; 1st assistant, Mervyn Gill-Dougherty; unit manager, Alan Charlesworth; continuity, Charlotte Blair; 2nd assistants, Todd Austin, John Spencer; designer, Paul Joel; design assistant, Pia Graham; properties buyer, Dave Morris; costume designer, Sheena Napier; costume assistant, Sarah Burns; make-up designer, Dawn Alcock; make-up assistant, Vicky Voller; lighting cameraman, Rex Maidment; focus puller, Keith Broome; grips, John Rake; gaffer, Dickie Wood; sound recordist, Barry Tharby; sound assistant, Simon Dart; production ops. supervisor, John Richardson; P.S.M., Sue Lockerby; film editor, Dick Allen; artists contracts, Brian Batchelor; casting adviser, Sue Whatmough; music, Richard Hartley. PELHAM
  • Participant or Performer Note: Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker, James Wilby.Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker, James Wilby, Julia McKenzie, Robert Stephens, Jean Marsh, Freddie Jones, Michael Percival, Edward Jewesbury, Brian Osborne, Paul Brooke, Tacita Haffenden, Chase Marks, William Holmes, Alan Cox, Michael Robbins, Jonathan Coy, Angus Barnett, Johnny Van Derrick, Roy Evans, Jack Milner, Jennie Heslewood, Bill Moody, Patsy Byrne, James Greene, George Innes.
  • Target Audience Note:
    Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.

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