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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Based on The Bostonians / Henry James
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena
Originally produced in 1984 as a motion picture
Special features: new digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions; "Conversations with the filmmakers," part of a new series of interviews with Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; original theatrical trailer
Photography, Walter Lassally ; editors, Katherine Wenning, Mark Potter ; music, Richard Robbins
Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Jessica Tandy, Nancy Marchand, Linda Hunt
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DVD, stereo
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired