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Título: Ghost Stories from the BBC: Lost Hearts / The Treasure of Abbot Thomas / The Ash Tree
Formato: DVD
Condición: Nuevo
Número de discos: 1
Fecha de produccion: 17/09/2012
Género: Drama
Actores: Simon Gipps-Kent, Joseph O'Conor, James Mellor, Susan Richards, Christopher Davis, Michael Bryant, Edward Petherbridge
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Idioma: inglés, inglés
Tiempo de ejecución: 1 hour and 44 minutes
Código de región: DVD: 2
Marca: Bfi
Calificación por edades: Unrated
Descripción: Ghost Stories from the BBC: Lost Hearts / The Treasure of Abbot Thomas / The Ash Tree (DVD)
Films by Lawrence Gordon Clark

As a Christmas treat in the late 1960s and 70s, the BBC produced adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of M R James, the Cambridge academic and author of some of the most spine-tingling tales in the English language, which were broadcast to terrified viewers in the dead of winter. This was a tradition that was briefly revived by the BBC between 2007 and 2010.

LOST HEARTS (1973)
When recently orphaned Stephen (Simon Gipps-Kent) goes to live with his uncle he is troubled by two terrifyting child spectres whose mischievous acts lead to a blood-curdling revelation. Based on a gory tale by masterful ghost story-teller M R James, Robin Chapman's dramatisation is a spine-chilling piece of atmospheric television which features a superb performance by Joseph O'Conor as the erratic uncle

THE TREASURE OF ABBOT THOMAS (1974)
Pride comes before a fall in John Bowen' adaptation of M R James' tale of a treasure hunt with a sticky end. Michael Bryant plays The Reverend Somerton whose self-assured intellectual arrogance masks a naked greed.

THE ASH TREE (1975)
Enlighted eighteenth-century nobleman Sir Richard Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits more than he bargined for when he comes into possession of a stately home dominated by a sinister old ash tree. David Rudkin's (Pendar's Fen) nuanced adaptation of M R James' short story about malevolent witchcraft features Barbara Ewing (Torture Garden, Brass) as the sorceress.

Special features

* Introduction to Lost Hearts by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012, 11 mins)
* Introduction to The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012, 11 mins)
* Introduction to The Ash Tree by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012, 8 mins)
* Fully illustrated booklet featuring newly-commissioned essays by horror writer Ramsey Campbell, Alex Davidson and Dick Fiddy

UK / colour / English language / DVD9 / Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps) Region 2 DVD

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