Drama - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Phyllis Logan, Chris Jury, Malcolm Tierney
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Great story, one I can identify with Disadvantages: Not sure John Mills was right for the role
on MrPolly's comic touches in the right way - in fact, he is not very comic at all and therefore not at all as he is portrayed in the book. I have to admit it, I was disappointed and it is not just because Lee Evans was head and shoulders better, but because Mills doesn't take on the role of the original MrPolly either.
Betty Ann Davies plays MrPolly's wife, Miriam. I thought she was great in the role. She plays it will just enough girlish innocence at the beginning, progressing to the shrewish woman that she becomes with great gusto. I would have liked to see more of her, to be honest, because she offset my frustration with JohnMills.
The History of MrPolly, based on the book by H G Wells (better known for his science fiction books), is a bit of an odd story. In some ways, I am annoyed by his desire to leave his wife in the lurch ...
Advantages: a nice story Disadvantages: one for fans
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Alfred Polly (JohnMills) is a well-intentioned if lazy and directionless day dreamer. Recently fired from his job as a drapers assistant, he half heartedly searches for another job without success. Almost penniless, he receives a communication that his father has passed away and so he sets off to pay his last respects. During this time away Alfred finds out that he has been left an inheritance, which amount to the princely sum of £500.
Alfred stays briefly with some relations although it is not long before they are hinting that he needs to move out and find a place of his own, they suggest a shop. But Alfred wants adventure and so buys a bicycle so that he can explore. On one of these days out on his bicycle he meets and falls in love with a school girl called Cristobel, although those feelings are obviously not ...
Advantages: Excellent stories, Great acting, good soundtrack Disadvantages: none
~ WATERLOOROAD ~
* What is WaterlooRoad?
WaterlooRoad is a BBC television programme based around a difficult school in Manchester. The school consists of pupils with troubled pasts and disabilities. The series evolves around the staff, pupils and parents and brings up many issues involving bad behaved children, suicidal pupils, teachers having affairs and parents being violent and abusive. In every episode there is a different plot focusing on one or two actors more than the others but it generally focuses on all the main characters included. Each episode is played for an hour without any breaks and there have been four seasons shown so far with a five under way. It was first aired in 2006 showing on Thursday nights and also in Scotland on Sundays. Waterloo is produced by the same company who has produced both Footballer ...
Three features. In 'The History Of Mr Polly', a young man daydreams his way through life as a draper's assistant until one day he is sacked and his life turns upside-down. Then on his father's death he inherits a large fortune and promptly buys himself a bicycle to travel the world and find adventure. His dreams are soon shattered by a doomed love affair and he has to set up his own business as a draper to try and turn things around but fifteen years later he is stuck in a dismal marriage and is on the verge of bankruptcy. He is close to taking his own life when at last there seems to be some hope for the unfortunate Mr Polly�. In 'Great Expectations', David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned British boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to mysterious adventure, wealth and joy. Also includes 'Waterloo Road, set during World War Two, with drama, adultery and desertion.
Release details
Studio(s)
DD Home Entertainment
Release date
21/11/2005
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
D 22377
Barcode
5019322223771
Screenwriter
H.G. Wells
Author
Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells
Writer
Charles Dickens
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
Three features. In 'The History Of Mr Polly', a young man daydreams his way through life as a draper's assistant until one day he is sacked and his life turns upside-down. Then on his father's death he inherits a large fortune and promptly buys himself a bicycle to travel the world and find adventure. His dreams are soon shattered by a doomed love affair and he has to set up his own business as a draper to try and turn things around but fifteen years later he is stuck in a dismal marriage and is on the verge of bankruptcy. He is close to taking his own life when at last there seems to be some hope for the unfortunate Mr Polly�. In 'Great Expectations', David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned British boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to mysterious adventure, wealth and joy. Also includes 'Waterloo Road, set during World War Two, with drama, adultery and desertion.
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