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The Mayor of Casterbridge.(Video Recording Review)

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3 vols. color. 368 min. David Giles, BBC Prods. in assoc, with Time Life Films, dist. by Acorn Media, 801 Roeder Ave., Suite 700, Silver Spring, MD 20910; 800-999-0212; 301-608-2115. 1978; 2003 release. ISBN 1-56938-612-9. $59.95; DVD ISBN 1-56938-611-0. $59.95. F

Originally aired in 1978 on the BBC, this seven-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge finds veteran British actor Alan Bates in his prime as tragic Michael Henchard. Writer Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective) channels Hardy's fatalism as he traces the downward spiral of Henchard, successful businessman and mayor of the Wessex town of Casterbridge, following the unexpected return after 18 years of the wife and daughter he had ...

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