1 Season
5 Episode
Persuasion - Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1
Jane Austen's last novel provides the plot for this earlier Granada miniseries. Set in pre-Victorian England, this movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, who now having lost her "bloom" is re-united with the dashing Captain Frederick Wentworth whose advances she had refused seven years earlier. Now that he has gained both connections and fortune in the Napoleonic Wars, she regrets that her neighbor, the meddling Lady Russell persuaded her to refuse his proposal of marriage. Now as she watches him woo the young Louisa Musgrove, she suffers terribly while he appears to have forgotten entirely his earlier attraction to her. Manners and moires often thwart her strong desire to tell her true feelings, but his true emotions too, are masked by fear and the lasting pain of her rejection.
- Year: 1971
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- Genre: Drama
- Studio: ITV1
- Keyword: based on novel or book, unrequited love, family relationships, class differences, period drama, aristocrat, 19th century, empire fashion, british navy
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- Cast: Ann Firbank, Bryan Marshall, Marian Spencer, Richard Vernon, Basil Dignam, Valerie Gearon
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