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The Bostonians

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The highly-praised Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Henry James 's famous novel of women's emancipation. Starring
Christopher Reeve Vanessa Redgrave Madeleine Potter
Nineteenth-century New
England: Olive Chancellor, a shy but forceful suffragette, takes on the education of Verena Tarrant, a pretty, naive young woman with a gift for oratory. But her influence over Verena is threatened by Basil Hansom, an attractive but impecunious lawyer. Not only is he in love with Verena, he is less than sympathetic to the feminist cause.
Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Producer Ismail Merchant
Director James Ivory
0 FILMS: pages 51-64

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Unknown:
Christopher Reeve
Unknown:
Vanessa Redgrave
Unknown:
Madeleine Potter
Unknown:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Director:
James Ivory
Basil Hansom:
Christopher Reeve
Olive Chancellor:
Vanessa Redgrave
Verena Tarrant:
Madeleine Potter
Miss Birdseye:
Jessica Tandy
Mrs Burrage:
Nancy Merchand
Dr Tarrant:
Wesley Addy
Mrs Tarrant:
Barbara Bryne
Dr Prance:
Linda Hunt
Source: Radio Times

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