The Mayor of Casterbridge
Movies & TV / DVD
Movies/TV › Feature Film Drama
ISBN: 733961709483 / Publisher: A&E Home Video, September 2003
The problems of the English farmer, now grown rich, who has to live with the anguish of having sold his wife and child at auction when he was a drunk youth.
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Originally broadcast on A&E, this lavish adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel is available for the first time on DVD. Ciaran Hinds stars as Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay trusser who gets drunk at a fair and sells his wife and child to a passing sailor for five guineas. After the horror of his act sets in, he vows he will never touch alcohol again, and through hard work and acumen, becomes the respected mayor of his town. Years later, his wife and daughter miraculously return, presenting the
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