Anne of Green Gables (Sullivan): Five-Disc Collector’s Edition – DVD Box Set

About Anne of Green Gables

An elderly brother and sister on Prince Edward Island send to the orphanage for a boy to help on the farm — and get Anne Shirley instead: eleven years old, red-haired, catastrophically talkative, with an imagination that renames everything it touches and a temper to match her hair. Sullivan Entertainment’s Anne of Green Gables (1985), adapted by Kevin Sullivan from L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 novel, is the definitive screen Anne — a Canadian television miniseries that became a worldwide phenomenon, an Emmy winner, and for millions the fixed image of Montgomery’s world: the Lake of Shining Waters, the Haunted Wood, and Green Gables itself, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert’s farm, where a mistaken orphan talks her way into a family.

Megan Follows, cast at seventeen from thousands, is Anne in the way certain actors simply become characters: ferocious, funny, theatrical, heartbreakingly earnest — her Anne makes drama of a slate cracked over Gilbert Blythe’s head, tragedy of raspberry cordial mistaken for currant wine, and high romance of a puffed sleeve. Around her: Colleen Dewhurst’s Marilla, flint outside, devotion within, in the performance of her late career; Richard Farnsworth’s Matthew, the shy bachelor whose quiet love for Anne is the story’s still centre; Schuyler Grant’s Diana Barry, the bosom friend; Jonathan Crombie’s Gilbert, the rival-turned-devotion fans quote forty years on; and Patricia Hamilton’s Rachel Lynde, the village’s self-appointed conscience.

This collector’s edition carries Anne’s whole Sullivan saga: the original miniseries — Anne’s arrival, schooling, Queen’s Academy and the choice that defines her; Anne of Avonlea (1987), the beloved sequel — Anne teaching at Kingsport, older, wiser, still gloriously herself, with Dame Wendy Hiller among the new faces; and the later continuation that follows Anne and Gilbert into adulthood and the shadow of the First World War. Together they form the complete arc Montgomery readers dream in: the orphan who invented herself becoming the woman the Island cannot imagine itself without.

Few adaptations hold a culture like this one: broadcast in more than a hundred countries, an evergreen of family viewing, and the engine of a real-world Anne pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island that continues decades later. Its secret is fidelity of spirit over museum caution — Montgomery’s humour kept sharp, her sorrows unsoftened (Matthew’s storyline remains one of television’s gentlest devastations), and PEI photographed as Anne sees it: the most beautiful place on earth, obviously.

This five-disc collector’s edition DVD box set gathers the Sullivan Anne of Green Gables saga in one place: from the wrong orphan at Bright River station to the woman of Avonlea and beyond — ready to rewatch with no streaming service able to send her back.

Product Highlights

• DVD format
• Region Free (All Regions)
• English audio and English subtitles
• Character relationships and consequential choices

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