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| Director: Philip Saville
Actors: Jenny Agutter, Elizabeth Ashley, Connie Booth, Alison Elliott, Peter Michael Goetz
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 18.74
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 459
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE2494D
UPC: 794051249425
EAN: 0794051249425
ASIN: B000E0ODZE
Theatrical Release Date: October 8, 1995
Release Date: April 18, 2006
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Condition: Ships from U.S.A, takes 6-11 days for Delivery! BRAND NEW PRODUCT Factory Sealed.
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 A glimpse of the Gilded Age August 30, 2003
This is the best BBC/PBS production ! The costumes, beautiful hairstyles, and excellant storyline add to the wonderful story of American heiresses hoping to try their luck in British Society of the 1870's . An excellant companion to this video ,is ( To Marry An English Lord, by Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace ), this easy and fun to read book, tells about all of the REAL buccaneers , from the 1870's to 1900's . My only negative comment on the Buccaneers is that it is not on DVD yet, but this video is worth every 5-star, BUY IT !
 yawn February 8, 2003
yeah, the costumes and locations were great but if you are ex-brpecting a story by Edith Wharton....well, you'll be disappointed. The main female character in the video is nothing like what I believe Ms. Wharton had in mind. In the brvideo Nan is a simpering gut-less wonder. And whatever happenedbrto lizzie Elmsworth sister? Read the book instead.
I Loved. November 25, 2002
Corie.G.Rodriguez (Hialeah,Florida,)
Like Pride and Prejudice, is a womens movie and is nice to see the live in era gome by. Mrs.Corie Gladys Rodriguez.
I Loved. November 25, 2002
Corie.G.Rodriguez (Hialeah,Florida,)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like Pride and Prejudice, is a womens movie and is nice to see the live in era gome by. Mrs.Corie Gladys Rodriguez.
A wonderful treat! July 11, 2002
Marcy Gomez (Kansas City, USA)
My sister and I adore this mini-series which was shown in Masterpiece Theater many years ago. Anyone who enjoys turn-of-the-century films such as The Age of Innocence, House of Mirth, The Golden Bowl, A Room With A View and Howard's End or stories of the Astors and Vanderbilts will find themselves enraptured with this tale of 4 beautiful American women who find themselves being courted by sons of the British nobility.pIn the center of the story are Nan (Carla Gugino) and Virginia St. George (Alison Eliott), and their friends Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino) and Lizzy Elmsworth (Rya Kihlstedt) - four young women living in turn-of-the-century America, when social status and wealth were the most important considerations in a woman's life (these were the days of the Astors and Vanderbilts, after all). Early in the story we find Conchita married to Lord Marable and begins her new life with the English nobility. Spurned in Newport and New York social circles because they are considered "new money," Nan, Virginia and Lizzy travel to England to visit Conchita and hopefully try their luck there. With the help of 2 enterprising older women, they soon become the toast of the town and are courted by many handsome, wealthy young men. Virginia and Lizzy vie for the attentions of Lord Seadown (Mark Tandy) who is not quite what he seems. Nan is pursued by the humble but ambitious Guy Thwaite (Greg Wise from "Sense and Sensibility") and the wealthy and reserved Julius, the Duke of Trevenick (James Frain). pThe mini-series offers beautiful scenery and costumes, great acting from members of the cast (including veterans Cherie Lunghi, Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen and Rosemary Leach) and a thoroughly engaging story. I loved the fantastic mansions, palaces and castles in Newport and England alike and the wonderful intertwining of the American and British sensibilities in the plot. It has "one foot in America and another foot in England," as Masterpiece Theater narrator Russell Baker aptly explains. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys top-notch romance/drama!
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