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SCREEN TWO: PERSUASION
(1995)
List of alternative names
- JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION
- JANE AUSTEN PERSUASION VIDEO
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- 09/1994
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
- Shown in the UK as part of the "Screen Two" series. Shown theatrically outside the U.K.
Library Synopsis
Set in England in 1814. The Elliot family are in financial difficulties and decide to let their house and move to Bath. Their tenant is Admiral Croft, whose brother-in-law, Captain Wentworth, had once been engaged to Anne Elliot. She had been persuaded to reject him however by her friend Lady Russell due to "anxiety attending his prospects". Anne, now 27,...
Top five credits
- Director
- MICHELL, Roger
- Production Company
- BBC TV
- Production Company
- WGBH (Boston)
- Executive Producer
- FABER, George
- Executive Producer
- EATON, Rebecca
Top five cast
- Admiral Croft
- WOODVINE, John
- Mr Shepherd
- COLLINGS, David
- Mrs Clay
- DEAN, Felicity
- Lady Russell
- FLEETWOOD, Susan
- Sir Walter Elliot
- REDGRAVE, Corin