Travels with my aunt / Metro-Goldwyn Mayer ; produced by Robert Fryer and James Cresson ; directed by George Cukor ; screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 1000239737 | Warner ClassicsSeries: Archive collectionPublication details: [United States] : Warner Classics, 2011.Edition: Remastered edDescription: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Music, Tony Hatch.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | COMEDY TRAVELS | Available | 33111010924716 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish accountant whose life seems to have died stillborn, discovers how to live with gusto thanks to the rough ministrations of his thoroughly eccentric aunt Augusta (Maggie Smith). Aunt Augusta bursts into Henry's life during the funeral for his mother, Augusta's sister. She whisks him to her apartment for a general cheering up, and he is thoroughly bemused by her bohemian ways and her much-younger black Caribbean boyfriend. In the next few hours, she manages to pry him from his dusty life and involve him in a series of incredible adventures involving old love affairs, espionage, kidnappings, and more money than he has ever dreamt of. Before the story ends, Henry has properly gotten into the spirit of his madcap aunt's adventuring. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
DVD-R; widescreen (16x9, 2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Title from container.
Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens.
Music, Tony Hatch.
MPAA rating: PG.
Based on the novel by Graham Greene.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.
"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.
'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul.
Special features include: trailer.