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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity," is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in this collection of six tales in which wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system. In Rumpole and the Angel of Death, our hero achieves new, resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. One adventure involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cheroot-smoking Horace Rumpole, is a career trial lawyer at London's central court. Rumpole faces an open-and-shut case, which he plans to wrap up by noon. But once he discerns the telling secret of his teenage client, he smells victory and mounts a full-on defense.
12) The innocents
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
