Ian McKellen
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The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Ent
Pub. Date
2020
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Bill Condon directs this US drama starring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren. After meeting widow Betty McLeish (Mirren) online, elderly con artist Roy Courtnay (McKellen) resolves to take everything she has. As he works his way deeper into her life, Betty's son Steven (Russell Tovey) begins to suspect that Roy is not all that he appears. But is Betty as credulous as Roy perceives?
4) Mr Holmes
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2015
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Ian McKellen stars as the famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes in this crime drama adaptation directed by Bill Condon. Set in 1947, the long-retired detective, now aged 93, lives in exile and spends his days tending to his bees and completing his memoirs. As Holmes examines the numerous achievements of his life, he finds himself continually troubled by his last ever case involving a beautiful woman (Hattie Morahan) which still remains unsolved. With his...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels. This collection includes the epic masterpiece David Copperfield, described by Dickens as his ?favourite child?; suspenseful mystery Bleak House; Dickens? most openly political novel, Hard Times and Little...