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7.2/10   346 votes
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Director:
Tom Vaughan
Writers:
Andrew Davies (screenplay)
Anthony Trollope (novel)
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Release Date:
18 April 2004 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
User Comments:
Pitiful modernization of a Victorian masterpiece. more

Cast

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)
Oliver Dimsdale ... Louis Trevelyan

Laura Fraser ... Emily Trevelyan
Anna Massey ... Miss Stanbury

Bill Nighy ... Colonel Osborne
Geoffrey Palmer ... Sir Marmaduke Rowley
Christina Cole ... Nora Rowley
Geraldine James ... Lady Rowley
Jane Lapotaire ... Lady Milborough
Raymond Coulthard ... Mr. Glascock
Maggie Ollerenshaw ... Martha
Stephen Campbell Moore ... Hugh Stanbury
Caroline Martin ... Dorothy Stanbury
Amy Marston ... Priscilla Stanbury
Joanna David ... Mrs. Stanbury
Barbara Flynn ... Mrs. French
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Additional Details

Runtime:
240 min (4 parts)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Gran Sasso, Abruzzo, Italy more
Company:
BBC Wales more

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5 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Pitiful modernization of a Victorian masterpiece., 16 December 2005
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Author: httpmom from San Francisco Bay Area

Has the BBC, like American News programs, suddenly suffered a lack of viewer ship and in an attempt to connect to a dumbed down audience...decided to hip up (bastardize) the classics? You may think so after watching this rendition of "He Knew He Was Right." This mini series suffered from a severe split personality. It was as if the director couldn't decide if he wanted to make a classic or try to appeal to preteen girls. While watching this production I felt torn with what I sensed as a considerable gap between the Old World BBC and perhaps a New World BBC and unlike our current president...I like the Old Europe BBC.

On the one hand there were wonderful veteran players like Anna Massey, Bill Nighy ,Geoffrey Palmer, Geraldine James, and Ron Cook devouring up the screen with memorable performances...on the other... we are asked to accept a mere child actor, Oliver Dimsdale as Louis Trevelyan the main character. He was so out of his league as to be painful...why not enlist someone like Hugh Dancy or James D'Arcy to rally some real bite into the character of Trevelyan. Dimsdale came off as inept and weak rather than tragic or sympathetic. I wanted to push him off the highest peak at the earliest chance! Then we had to suffer scenes with the terribly miscast Misses French's...although David Tennant portrayed Mr. Gibson...the rivaling young women's love interest or "catch" with a great deal of humor.

Again a schizophrenia...the set design, cinematography, and costumes had the vigor of a traditional BBC production but the script seemed too contemporary for a Victorian classic...surprising from Andrew Davies who usually surpasses himself with a sharp talent to bring an audience into a different era. There was sufficient time to built the characters (the show is 240 min in 4 parts) but most fell terribly flat. I certainly hope this is not a harbinger to the next generation at the BBC because I will miss the old as much as I miss what used to be American news programs.

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