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This adaption of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel stars Shirley Temple as Sara Crewe, a kindhearted rich girl left penniless after her father is reported dead in battle. She is forced to work as a maid under the harshest of conditions but continues to search for the truth about her father's disappearance. The New York Times critic Janet Maslin, in 1983, described the film as culminating in "a happy ending sure to make even grown-up...
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Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. The second half of the play begins with a choral narration of earlier events. As Act III opens, a love interest for Nicholas develops. Madame Mantalini's business is about to go bankrupt, due to her husband's profligate ways, and Kate must leave. She takes a position as a lady's companion. While...
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The Royal Shakespeare company adapted and produced Charles Dickens' novel into a nine-hour Emmy award-winning production starring Roger Rees. In this episode, Smike is kidnapped by Wackford Speers and Nicholas attacks Sir Mulberrry Hawk for accosting his sister. The Cheeryble brothers hire Nicholas, who is entranced by Madeline Bray.
Television version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage adaptation of Dickens' novel.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company adapted and produced Charles Dickens' novel into a nine-hour Emmy award-winning production starring Roger Rees. In this episode, Nicholas receives accolades for his work with the theater troupe but Kate suffers in London when Sir Mulberry Hawk attempts to seduce her at a party she is hosting for her uncle. Part One of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby concludes with the actors performing a mock-Victorian revisionist...
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Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees.All the story strands of the epic Dickens tale are finally tied up. Squeers gets his comeuppance, the secret of Smike's birth is unveiled, and Uncle Ralph's blackmailer reappears with a stunning revelation. Happiness hangs in the balance for Nicholas, Kate, Madeline, the Kenwigs, Frank, Uncle Lillyvick...
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Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. Kate and Mrs. Nickleby move out of their temporary lodgings with the kind portrait artist, Miss La Creevy. Kate begins her employment with Madame Mantalini and her crew of milliners. Young and pretty, Kate is assigned to work with Miss Knag in the shop, awkwardly helping rich, spoiled, women try...
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Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. Ralph Nickleby is confronted by a blackmailer for reasons that remain mysterious. A young man who is unknown to Kate defends her honor. Nicholas meets the Cheeryble's nephew, Frank, and reveals to Nog that he has fallen in love with Madeline. Uncle Ralph devises a heartless plan with an avaricious...
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Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees.Hawk is confronted by a friend with a crisis of conscience, and a duel ensues. Guests arrive for Arthur Gride's wedding to Madeline, as engineered by Ralph Nickleby, and Nicholas panics. Smite takes ill and is brought to Nicholas and Kate's family home in Devon to be nursed.
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Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. As Act II begins, the cast provides a choral summary of events. Squeers' daughter Fanny writes to Ralph Nickleby, condemning Nicholas for having attacked her father. Newman Noggs, Ralph's secretary, visits his neighbors, the Kenwigs. The family, which includes several daughters, panders to Mrs. Kenwigs'...
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The Royal Shakespeare Company adapted Charles Dickens' novel into a nine-hour Emmy award-winning production starring Roger Rees. In this episode, Nicholas Nickleby along with his sister, Kate, and his mother, travel to London to ask their father's brother for financial aid. Ralph Nickleby places Nicholas as an assistant in Dotheboys Hall, a Yorkshire boarding school, and Kate in a milliner's shop in London.
Television version of the Royal Shakespeare...
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In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort.
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About to enter his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to return. Harry ignores his warning and returns to Hogwarts, where strange things begin to happen, as people are becoming petrified, Harry hears a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls, and Harry's newly-discovered and unsettling ability to communicate with snakes turns even his friends against...
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