Our Mutual Friend BBC (Starring Leo McKern Multi-Region DVD) [2018]

Product Description THE Classic BBC Adaptation of the best selling novel by Charles Dickens. John Harmon discovers that his inherited fortune hangs on his marriage to Bella Wilfer, a woman he's never met. But many have their eyes on his fortune and scheme to claim it, placing him in a poor position so he must conceal his true identity to win her affections. A story about two women, both vainly seeking happiness and fulfilment: Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer. Lizzie is the romantic bone of contention between two ardent suitors, a class conscious triangle which culminates in tragedy in addition her father is suspected of murder. Starring Leo McKern and Jane Seymour (Smallville), Lesley Dunlop ( May to December) and Warren Clarke (Dalziel and Pascoe) and directed by Peter Hammond (Inspector Morse). Music Composed and arranged by Carl Davis Review ....manages to preserve the marvellous incantatory rhythms of narrative and dialogue; Peter Lennon The Sunday Times --The Sunday Times ......succeeds in compressing Dickens's work without destroying its atmosphere or its characters; Ronald Higham, London Evening News --London Evening News