Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Daniel Day-Lewis triple feature : How many miles to Babylon ; The insurance man ; Dangerous corner / BBC.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

2 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

How many miles to Babylon?: Two Irishmen -- Alex Moore (Day-Lewis), a Protestant, and his childhood friend Jerry, a Catholic, enter WWI as soldiers and see their friendship tested as they experience the harsh realities of war.

The insurance man: Told through flashbacks, the story follows Franz, who recounts a mysterious skin condition he suffered as a factory worker before the First World War. At Prague's infamous Insurance Company, Franz meets Kafka (Day-Lewis), an insurance bureaucrat whose intelligence and compassion are out of place amid the apathy that surrounds him.

Dangerous corner: Day-Lewis plays publishing executive Gordon Whitehouse. While gathered with his coterie of high society friends and coworkers at the country estate of his business partner, one guest makes a surprising remark about a musical box. This seemingly harmless comment produces a string of shocking revelations with devastating consequences.

Subjects:

Soldiers -- Ireland -- Drama.

Skin -- Diseases -- Drama.

Insurance companies -- Drama.

Ireland -- History -- 1910-1921 -- Drama.

Genre:

Television adaptations.

Made-for-TV movies.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Johnston, Jennifer, 1930-

Mahon, Derek, 1941-2020.