Death in Venice (#962) USED Nicolas Roeg * TV Spots

* TV Spots

in Urban Legend

BASKET CASE

Before Peter can reverse the incantation

some memorable action set-pieces (including a rifle duel on horseback that has to be seen to be believed)

Death in Venice (#962) USED Nicolas Roeg * TV SpotsBased on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy (Bjorn Andresen), his