Movies: Veronica Castang

A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease....

Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true—when he...