"The Buccaneers" (1995) TV mini-series

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Philip Saville

Writers:

Maggie Wadey (writer)
Edith Wharton (novel)

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

8 October 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Four American girls go to England to find husbands.

Plot Keywords:

England | London | Ruins | Clocks | Duke

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Carla Gugino	...	Nan St. George (5 episodes, 1995)
Alison Elliott	...	Virginia St. George (5 episodes, 1995)
Mira Sorvino	...	Conchita Closson (5 episodes, 1995)
Rya Kihlstedt	...	Lizzy Elmsworth (5 episodes, 1995)
Mark Tandy	...	Lord Seadown (5 episodes, 1995)
Dinsdale Landen	...	Lord Brightlingsea (5 episodes, 1995)
Michael Kitchen	...	Sir Helmsley Thwaite (5 episodes, 1995)
Cherie Lunghi	...	Laura Testvalley (5 episodes, 1995)
Sophie Dix	...	Lady Honoria Marabel (5 episodes, 1995)
Sienna Guillory	...	Lady Felicia Marabel (5 episodes, 1995)
Rosemary Leach	...	Lady Brightlingsea (5 episodes, 1995)
Emily Hamilton	...	Lady Georgina (5 episodes, 1995)
Ronan Vibert	...	Lord Richard Marabel (5 episodes, 1995)
Greg Wise	...	Guy Thwaite (5 episodes, 1995)
James Frain	...	Julius Folyat (4 episodes, 1995)
Sheila Hancock	...	Dowager Duchess / ... (4 episodes, 1995)
Richard Huw	...	Hector Robinson (4 episodes, 1995)
Jenny Agutter	...	Idina Hatton (4 episodes, 1995)
Connie Booth	...	Jackie March (4 episodes, 1995)
Alister Cameron	...	Longlands Butler (3 episodes, 1995)
Vicky Blake	...	Rose (3 episodes, 1995)
Diana Blackburn	...	Lady Gertrude (3 episodes, 1995)
Matt Patresi	...	Lord Percy (3 episodes, 1995)
Peter Michael Goetz	...	Col. St. George (3 episodes, 1995)
Bev Willis	...	Fisher (3 episodes, 1995)

Runtime:

Russia:212 min (2 parts) | UK:55 min (5 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Filming Locations:

66 Ocean Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Soundtrack:

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

Edith Wharton and Jane Austen -- TWO DIFFERENT AUTHORS!

Seez, you seem to be very confused.

Edith Wharton and Jane Austen are two totally different authors. They both were women and both wrote socially-oriented novels, but that's about all they have in common.

Jane Austen was English. She lived from 1775 to 1817 and published only six books, two posthumously. The major theme of her books is genteel but impoverished young women trying to make advantageous marriages. She had nothing whatsoever to do with the story of The Buccaneers; she died 120 years before the book was written.

Edith Wharton was an American. A member of New York's old Society, she was born Edith Jones in 1862. She was married at age 23 to Teddy Wharton, a socially acceptable young man, but the union was not happy. She published her first book in 1900 and soon moved to France when she began to experience commercial success. She would spend much of the rest of her life in Europe, divorcing Teddy when he threatened to spend all her money, for as a best-selling author her income was large. Wharton's books center around the American social scene and the socially constricting expectations of that world; she usually portrays marriage as a sort of prison, as she herself experienced it. The Buccaneers (1937) was her last novel. She died before it was finished, but left an outline; it has actually been finished by several authors in several different versions based upon her notes.

And finally, it is not set in "the Regency period of English history" (that term refers specifically to the years 1811-1820). It is set in the 1870s.