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The professor and the madman.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: DL6933 | Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment AustraliaPublication details: Australia : Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia, 2020.Description: 1 DVD-video (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cmUniform titles:
  • Professor and the madman (Motion picture : 2019)
  • Professor and the madman (Motion picture : 2019)
Contained works:
  • Winchester, Simon. Professor and the madman
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
Production credits:
  • Produced by Nicolas Chartier, Gastón Pavlovich ; screenplay by Todd Komarnicki and P.B. Shemran [P.B. Sherman] ; directed by P.B. Shemran [P. B. Sherman].
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Anthony Andrews, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan.Summary: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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DVD Melbourne Athenaeum Library DVD PRO Available 063448
Total reserves: 0

Based on the book by Simon Winchester.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

DL6933.

"The incredible true story that defined our world" -- Container.

Director's name P.B. Shemran from the container.

Produced by Nicolas Chartier, Gastón Pavlovich ; screenplay by Todd Komarnicki and P.B. Shemran [P.B. Sherman] ; directed by P.B. Shemran [P. B. Sherman].

Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Anthony Andrews, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan.

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Censorship classification : M - Mature themes and violence.

DVD video ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; PAL ; Region 4 ; 2.40:1.

In English.

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