Augustus Goetz
1) Carrie
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A powerhouse of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties, as love-doomed George Hurstwood throws everything away for the love of Carrie.
2) The heiress
Series
Criterion collection volume 974
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
3) The Heiress
Author
Language
English
Description
Catherine seeks love in the form of a suitor named Morris. However, her father quickly quashes this romance, citing that Morris simply wants to leach from Catherine's soon-to-be inheritance. As Catherine is slowly consumed by her father's possessiveness, she must decide between material security and the risks that come with love.
4) Carrie
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...