David Lean - Centenary Collection

Collection of ten classic films from the award-winning British director. In 'The Sound Barrier' 1952, Ralph Richardson stars as an aircraft manufacturer whose all-consuming passion with making the ultimate supersonic jet kills both his son and son-in-law and almost destroys him and the rest of his family. In 'Hobson's Choice' 1953, Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson Charles Laughton keeps a tight rein on his three daughters until his eldest, Maggie Brenda De Banzie, marries his assistant, Willie Mossop John Mills, and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To Hobson's consternation, Willie has soon become his father-in-law's main business rival. In 'Blithe Spirit' 1945, cynical writer, Charles Condomine Rex Harrison, asks a medium Margaret Rutherford to hold a seance in his house so he can collect material for his latest book. No one is more surprised than the medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of Condomine's first wife Kay Hammond. The ghost refuses to go away, preferring to taunt her less sophisticated replacement Constance Cummings. In 'Brief Encounter' 1945, a respectable, happily married doctor Trevor Howard comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife Celia Johnson when a passing train blows cinder into her eye. Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and railway cafe of a small English town. In 'Great Expectations' 1946, orphan, Pip Anthony Wager, befriends an escaped convict before being elevated to higher circles as
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