S3.E7

Northanger Abbey

Name: Northanger Abbey
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987-02-15
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Katharine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Robert Hardy

Episode aired Feb 15, 1987
1h 28m

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5.4/10

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Drama

Catherine Morland is a young woman who enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She is invited to Bath by a family friend, Mrs. Allen, and there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. Upon retu... Read allCatherine Morland is a young woman who enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She is invited to Bath by a family friend, Mrs. Allen, and there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. Upon returning to her home with her family, Eleanor invites Catherine to come along as her guest an... Read allCatherine Morland is a young woman who enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She is invited to Bath by a family friend, Mrs. Allen, and there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. Upon returning to her home with her family, Eleanor invites Catherine to come along as her guest and companion. There Catherine's imagination continues to flourish and she begins to suspect... Read all

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5.4/10

899

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Peter Firth and Katharine Schlesinger in Northanger Abbey (1987)

Katharine Schlesinger in Northanger Abbey (1987)

Philip Bird and Cassie Stuart in Northanger Abbey (1987)

Katharine Schlesinger and Googie Withers in Northanger Abbey (1987)

Ingrid Lacey and Katharine Schlesinger in Northanger Abbey (1987)

Jonathan Coy and Cassie Stuart in Northanger Abbey (1987)

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Trivia
The "little shoemaker" Mr. Allen refers to while reading the newspaper is Thomas Hardy, who was tried for sedition in London in 1794 for leading a parliamentary reform movement.

Connections
Featured in The Real Jane Austen (2002)

Soundtracks
The Lancer's Quadrilles: Ladoiska
(uncredited)
Composed by Kruetzer
[first dance in Bath Assembly Room on Catherine's first visit)

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4/10

Bizarre Adaptation

Normally BBC productions of Jane Austen are pretty good but Northanger Abbey is just odd. What were they thinking? This film has little of Austen's charm and ironically mimics the Gothic novels that Austen so wonderfully mocked. Not only that, the "gothic" sequences are tacky, over-the-top, and frankly silly. The actress playing Miss Morland is poorly cast with no obvious appeal to attract the attentions of an eligible bachelor, and though I rather liked the creepy Peter Firth as Mr. Tilney, he is not a bit like the novel, even when delivering dialog straight out of the book. Robert Hardy as General Tilney turned in one of his few terribly "ham" performances. This film was so bizarre and strange that I actually watched it again just to savor how freakishly wrong it was.

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