Oswald Morris
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tevye is a poor milkman in czarist Russia, where he provides for three unmarried daughters and a sharp-tongued wife. Faced with mounting financial strain and growing anti-Semitism, Tevye strives to maintain balance despite the precarious nature of his situation.
3) Equus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001, c1971]
Language
English
Description
Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
6) Scrooge
Series
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The classic Charles Dickens tale of the cold hearted miser who is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan leave 19th century India and set out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold and priceless rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they struggle to survive before help arrives.