TY  - ADVS
AU  - Barnes,Peter
AU  - Bates,Alan
AU  - Deutsch,Stephen
AU  - Dickens,Charles
AU  - Elliott,Denholm
AU  - Grant,Richard E.
AU  - Langridge,Richard
AU  - Maidment,Rex
AU  - Paterson,Bill
AU  - Peck,Bob
AU  - Scott,Robin Graham
AU  - Walter,Harriet
ED  - 2 Entertain Video (Firm)
ED  - BBC School Television.
ED  - BBC Video (Firm)
ED  - British Broadcasting Corporation.
ED  - Warner Home Video (Firm)
ED  - WGBH Educational Foundation.
TI  - Hard times
T2  - BBC Video classics
SN  - 1419880810 (set)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - [England], Burbank, CA
PB  - BBC Video, 2 Entertain Video, Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
KW  - Dickens, Charles,
KW  - Education
KW  - England
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Drama
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Utilitarianism
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - Made-for-TV movies
KW  - Melodramas (Motion pictures)
KW  - Television adaptations
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - "A BBC TV production in association with WGBH"--Container; Based on the novel by Charles Dickens; Special feature: The signalman / starring Denholm Elliott; Photography, Rex Maidment; editor, Robin Graham Scott; music composed by Stephen Deutsch; Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter, Richard E. Grant; Originally released as a television movie in 1994
N2  - Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall
ER  -