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Title: Ghost Stories from the BBC: The Stalls of Barchester / A Warning to the Curious
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 20/08/2012
Genre: Horror
Actors: Robert Hardy, Peter Vaughan
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour and 35 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: bfi
Subtitle Language: Norwegian
Description: BBC Ghost Stories: The Stalls of Barchester + A Warning to the Curious
Two 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.

These adaptations, which have a subtlety and style all of their own, have been a major influence on many contemporary British horror filmmakers and have come to be some of the most sought after British TV titles by their legions of eager fans.

The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
While cataloguing the collection of Barchester Cathedral library, Dr Black stumbles across an intriguing box of papers belonging to former Archdeacon Haynes. In it, he discovers a hidden history of blood guilt and macabre supernatural revenge.
With its superb cast and beautiful choral accompaniment by Norwich Cathedral choir, Lawrence Gordon Clark s (Harry s Game) evocative adaptation of James short story inspired the BBC's popular 1970s series A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Warning to the Curious (1972)
The second of Clark's M R James adaptations for the BBC features Peter Vaughan (Straw Dogs, Our Friends in the North) as a doomed amateur archaeologist who pays a terrible price for his curiosity about an ancient Saxon legend.

Special features

* Introduction to The Stalls of Barchester by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012, 10 mins)
* Introduction to A Warning to the Curious by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012, 12 mins)
* Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee 'The Stalls of Barchester' by M R James (Eleanor Yule. 2000, 30 mins): Christopher Lee recreates M R James famous soirees, at which the antiquary would read his tales of the supernatural to eager undergraduates
* Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee 'A Warning to the Curious' by M R James (Eleanor Yule. 2000, 30 mins): dramatic reconstruction of one of the author's Christmas readings

UK 1971 + 1972 colour English language 45 minutes + 50 minutes DVD9 Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps) Region 2 DVD

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