| Description |
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Cinema classics collection
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| System Details |
DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo (English), Dolby Digital mono (English, French, Spanish), presented in letterbox widescreen preserving original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1, NTSC. |
| Note |
In English, Spanish or French, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish ; closed-captioned. |
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Based on the novel 'The Magus' by John Fowles. |
| Cast |
Michael Caine (Nicholas Urfe), Anthony Quinn (Maurice Conchis), Candice Bergen (Lily), Anna Karina (Anne). |
| Credits |
Editor, Max Benedict ; director of photography, Billy Williams ; music composed and conducted by John Dankworth. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: PG. |
| Summary |
An English teacher arrives on a sleepy Greek island to take up a vacant teaching post. The last man to hold the post committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Slowly but surely, he is drawn into a bizarre game engineered by a reclusive local magician. The deeper into the game he is drawn, the more he senses danger ... yet cannot seem to untangle himself from the fascinating and compelling influence that the game is having on his mind. |
| Contents |
Main titles/New teacher -- Twin spirits -- Two cups on my table -- The paperweight -- Playing at death -- Lost love -- Phantom violinist -- Visions -- End of the affair -- Psychiatric clinic -- Who's really mad? -- A bird in hand -- Soldiers on the beach -- Improvisation -- Puppets -- Chapel rendezvous -- Production clown -- Firing squad -- Failure to love -- The magus -- Judge -- Executioner -- What is truth? -- For the first time/End titles. |
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Special features: John Fowles: the literary magus / produced by John Cork, Lisa van Evssen, Bruce Scivally ; written and directed by John Cork (23 min.) ; theatrical trailer (1 min.). |
| Subject |
British -- Greece -- Drama.
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Islands -- Greece -- Drama.
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Teachers -- Greece -- Drama.
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Magic -- Greece -- Drama.
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Greece -- Drama.
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Fowles, John, 1926-2005 -- Film and video adaptations.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Suspense in motion pictures, television, etc.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
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Film adaptations.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Kohn, John.
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Kinberg, Jud.
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Green, Guy, 1913-2005.
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Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
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Caine, Michael.
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Quinn, Anthony, 1915-2001.
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Bergen, Candice, 1946-
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Karina, Anna, 1940-
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Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
Magus.
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Blazer Films, Ltd.
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
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| ISBN |
024543377429 |
| Standard No. |
024543377429 : $19.99 |
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