84 Charing Cross Road (film)
84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American drama film directed by David Hugh Jones. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore is based on a play by James Roose-Evans, which itself was an adaptation of the 1970 epistolary memoir of the same name by Helene Hanff, a compilation of letters between herself and Frank Doel dating from 1949 to 1968. Although the play has only two characters, the dramatis personae for the film were expanded to include Hanff's Manhattan friends, the bookshop staff, and Doel's wife Nora.
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“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First—”
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“I wonder how far down the road he’s got.
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