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Henry James - The Ambassadors

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Lambert Strether is sent to Paris to bring home his fiancée's wayward son and heir.

It's 1903, and New Englander Lambert Strether is sent to Paris to bring home his fiancée's wayward son and heir. Stars Henry Goodman.

THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel many critics find James' finest. 

EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell of Paris. . 

Lambert Strether Henry Goodman
Chad Orlando Seale
Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin
Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody
John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton
Waymarsh Paul Moriarty
Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh
Jim Pocock James Lailey
Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles
Andre Carl Prekopp
Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington
Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy

Directed by Peter Kavanagh.

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