The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope and love grow.
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
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Cast
- Gennie JamesMary Lennox
- Barret OliverDickon Sowerby
- Jadrien SteeleColin Craven
- Michael HordernBen Weatherstaff
- Billie WhitelawMrs. Medlock
- Derek JacobiArchibald Craven
- Cassie StuartMartha Sowerby
- Pat HeywoodMrs. Sowerby
- Alison DoodyLilias
- Edward Tudor-PoleJohn the Footman
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- Alan GrintDirector
- Blanche HanalisWriter
- Frances Hodgson BurnettNovel
- Robert PaynterDirector of Photography
- Keith PalmerEditor
- Steve LanningProducer
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