The professor and the madman
Type
Label
The professor and the madman
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Censorship classification : M - Mature themes and violence
Main title
The professor and the madman
Runtime
120
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
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Film adaptations
- Biographical films
- Minor, William Chester -- Drama
- Feature films
- College teachers -- Drama
- Murray, James A. H., James Augustus Henry, 1837-1915 -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- Oxford English dictionary -- Drama
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Drama
Content
Actor
resource.filmproducer
resource.screenwriter
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor12
- Genre5
- Subject11
- Film adaptations
- Biographical films
- Minor, William Chester -- Drama
- Feature films
- College teachers -- Drama
- Murray, James A. H., James Augustus Henry, 1837-1915 -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- Oxford English dictionary -- Drama
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Content1
- Actor9
- resource.filmproducer1
- resource.screenwriter1