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2) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Description
Prospero, exiled on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, raises a magical tempest to wash ashore a ship carrying the enemies who usurped his dukedom years ago -- his brother Antonio and Alonso, the king of Naples. Alonso's son Ferdinand is feared dead but has washed to another part of the island, where he meets and falls in love with Miranda. Prospero punishes the usurpers and regains his dukedom, as Miranda gains a royal husband.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island when the plane that is evacuating them from a war-threatened England crashlands. Without adult control, the boys regress to savagery.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
10) Pitch black
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
11) The red turtle
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
The dialogue-less film follows the story of a castway who becomes stranded on a beautiful, but desolated island. He learns to live in isolation, seemingly tormented in his effots to escape the island by a giant red turtle.--
12) The tempest
Series
Publisher
CBC Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
John Hirsch's Stratford Festival production, staged for CBC television in 1982.
Home use only.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
14) Pitch black
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
17) The tempest
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Navy pilot Robin Crusoe ditches his plane after engine trouble and becomes stranded on a tropical island with a poker-playing chimp, an abandonded sub, and a beautiful native girl named Wednesday who was exiled there for disobeying her overprotective father.
19) Pitch black
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
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