Bibliograph

84 Charing Cross Road, Columbia Pictures ; a Brooksfilms production ; a David Jones film ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Geoffrey Helman ; directed by David Jones

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Label

84 Charing Cross Road, Columbia Pictures ; a Brooksfilms production ; a David Jones film ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Geoffrey Helman ; directed by David Jones

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated PG

Main title

84 Charing Cross Road

Oclc number

50067472

Responsibility statement

Columbia Pictures ; a Brooksfilms production ; a David Jones film ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Geoffrey Helman ; directed by David Jones

Runtime

100

Summary

Helene Hanff is a New Yorker who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones. When she sees an ad in the Saturday Review for a London bookstore, she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. She begins a correspondence with the bookseller, Frank Doel. Built on a basis of mutually held taste, knowledge, interests and consideration, the bond between the lonely New Yorker and the reserved Londoner lasts for years without the two people ever meeting each other. Based on a true story and the long running play

Table Of Contents

Start -- Answering an ad -- Frank P. Doel -- Brian the Britisher -- Imaginary conversations Vol. 2 -- Doel home -- Meat rationing -- Christmas 1949 -- Food from Denmark -- Willie's deli -- Note from Cecily -- Helene's London fantasy -- Idea of the university -- Conga! -- Easter parcels -- Elizabethan love poems -- Maxine at Marks & Co. -- Ersatz Pepys -- Babysitter -- Gift of linen -- In hospital -- Nylons for Lent -- Trip canceled -- Evicted -- Modern library thing -- Alive & kicking -- All things must pass -- Finally made it

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Eighty-four Charing Cross Road

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