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Finding videos on DVD or VHS -
Please read if you are looking for videos.
This page does not represent an effort to post every interview or TV appearance, but only a selection of some of the more interesting material available. A collection of TV video has been in circulation among fans and an excellent contact is
glennab@pcez.com. (His site.)
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TECHNICAL NOTES: These files are in Windows Media Player
format except where otherwise stated.Most of the high speed clips are 100 or 300 kbps or higher. Some longer programs have been kept at 100k in order to keep the file sizes small. If you have a low speed dial up connection you can play the clips by downloading them and playing them offline. (Right click the file link and choose "Save target as.")
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Finding videos on DVD or VHS
Misc. notes Oct. 10, 2004:
For a list of most of Christopher Plummer's movies, see IMDB: Christopher Plummer.
Most of his movies are available at Amazon.com (USA) (and Amazon's international sites UK, Canada, France, Germany, etc.), as well as eBay and Half.com. Some movies have been released as Region 2 (Europe) DVD's that are not available in USA. You can find Region 2 DVD's on Amazon's international sites, as well as Sendit.com, Moviesdistribucion.org and ebay. (You'll need an All-Region DVD player to play Region 2 DVD's in USA.) DVD's with foreign language titles always include the original English audio track option. Some hard to find movies do air on TV so check Current Month TV (TV-Now.com). If you have a DVD recorder, you can record much better quality video from TV than some of the old commercial VHS tapes.
For rare material (such as movies, documentaries & interviews never released on video) a very helpful contact is glennab@pcez.com ("The Christopher Plummer Unofficial Fan Page.") Many people ask about On Golden Pond. In addition to asking Glenn, you can easily obtain a copy of OGP from the various Julie Andrews and The Sound of Music Message boards. (See Links page.) Most of the rare video on this page is available through Glenn. Regarding movies never released on video, Glenn's collection includes, among others, Night Flight, On Golden Pond, Spearfield's Daughter, When the Circus Came to Town, Silver Blaze, The Moneychangers, Oedipus the King, Wind Across the Everglades.
Some noteworthy movies never issued on commercial video include Night Flight (2001), On Golden Pond (2001), A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991), Spearfield's Daughter (1986), When the Circus Came to Town (1981); Silver Blaze (1977); The Moneychangers (1976); After the Fall (1974), Oedipus the King (1967), Hamlet at Elsinore (1963), Cyrano (1962) and other early TV; and Wind Across the Everglades (1958.) Some of these can only be seen at the The Museum of Television & Radio. MTR archives include A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, After the Fall, Hamlet at Elsinore, Cyrano and more. (Here is a list.) There is also rare video at The UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of The New York Public Library.
• TV Biodocumentaries:
"Christopher Plummer: King of Players" and the UK Biography Channel documentary are available through Glenn.
"Christopher Plummer - A Man for All Stages" is available at this URL and is also in Glenn's collection:
http://www.gapc.com/broadcast_entertainment/inDist.html
• 30 Minutes, Mr. Plummer and The Performer are available from NFB.ca, as are some documentaries that Plummer narrated.
• Misc. recent documentaries - Here are links for sources for some documentary films narrated by Christopher Plummer.
• Agent of Influence (2002) was released on Region 2 DVD under the title Falsa Acusacion. It is available through some Spanish DVD sites such as Moviesdistribucion.org and Dvdgo.com.
• Ordeal by Innocence (1984) was released on Region 2 DVD under the title Culpable de Inocencia. It is available through some Spanish DVD sites such as Moviesdistribucion.org and Dvdgo.com.
There has also been a Region 2 release titled Dφdligt Alibi.
• Young Catherine (1991) - The most complete commercial releases were the double VHS set and the laserdisc. The single VHS release was a cut version of the movie.
• Nosferatu a Venezia aka Nosferatu in Venice aka Vampire in Venice (1988) - A PAL format VHS video of "Vampire in Venice" was in The Netherlands in 1988 by Vestron (Cover scan - from a beat up tape); also in in the UK 1991 by First Independent Films Ltd. as part of the "First Fright" series. (Cover scan); Those releases have a running time of 106 minutes.There was also a release in Greece (Cover scan) There have been a few commercial releases, but most DVD's of the movie on eBay are poor quality bootlegs.
• Crossings (1986 TV miniseries) - There was a PAL format 2-VHS tape set release by Warner Home video (U.K.) Limited in 1996, 269 min. (Cover scan)
• Dial M for Murder (1981 TV movie) - There was a PAL format VHS release by Vestron Video in 1983. It can sometimes be found on eBay. (Cover scan)
• Lock Up Your Daughters (1969) - A PAL format VHS video was released by RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video in the UK in 1990. Apparently this was the only commercial video release. (Cover scan)
• Triple Cross (1967) - The only uncut release is the German PAL DVD (titled "Spion zwischen zwei Fronten" 134 min.) which includes the original English audio track and is in widescreen.
• Fall of the Roman Empire - Most DVD releases have been poor video quality. An excellent video quality DVD release is
"La Chute de l'Empire Romain" available from Amazon - France in original 2.35:1 widescreen. It can also be found on eBay.
• A Dolls' House by Henrik Ibsen (Hallmark Hall of Fame, a 1959 live performance) - This was released on MGM VHS video in the early 1980's along with cast interviews. (Cover scan)
• Stage Struck (1958) - There is no DVD release, but it does air on TV. There were several VHS releases on various labels, some of which had terrible video quality. The best quality release was the 1991 Turner/Image Entertainment release as part of "The RKO Collection" on Laserdisc and VHS.
• The following are notes about original sources for some of the video, though it is also available through Glenn. Sources: glennab@pcez.com for King of Players, Pamela Wallin interview, '97 Tony Awards; marje444@yahoo.com the 2003 Henry V radio broadcast and BBC Radio Archive Hour Dec. 11, 2004 "The Hills Are Alive"; dermott@ns.sympatico.ca for the Peer Gynt radio broadcast; louisecoleuk@yahoo.co.uk for Night Flight, TSOM children; and the UK Wogan interviews; (Also tony.baird1@ntlworld.com in the UK has an original PAL tape of TSOM children doc.); LarrytateT@aol.com for When the Circus Came to Town; Mandy99@webtv.net for the Moneychangers (she also has Crossings); piperspost@webtv.net for What's My Line?; chris.beachum@comcast.net (Boomer at Goldderby) Kennedy Center Honors and 2000 Oscars; COCOBRODER@aol.com for some of the old Tony Awards tapes (He has most of the Tony broadcasts back to the late 1970's.); JOADI@aol.com for Rosie O'Donnell Shows March 21, 1997 and Nov. 18, 1999 (She has an archive of almost every Rosie O'Donnell Show ever aired.)
IMDB: Christopher Plummer
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