Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Country: GB
Technical: col/1.33:1 TV Mini-series (10h59m)
Director: Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Anthony Andrews, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Jones, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud
Synopsis:
Charles Ryder, an Army officer camped outside a stately home, reminisces over his pre-War acquaintance with the family that lived there, a story that stretches back to Oxford in the 1920s.
Review:
This Granada TV production was probably the most ambitious thing ever to have been undertaken by a television studio, on either side of the pond, and it had quality written all over it. Based on a literary classic, but venturing well beyond the studio unlike the BBC's treasured Sunday nighters, it had a stellar cast and a roster of new faces, a tactic repeated by the 2008 movie version. Irons' unforgettable narration is superb, of course (he seemed suddenly to be everywhere at the time), but it is the early episodes that are the best, before the dreariness sets in.
Country: GB
Technical: col/1.33:1 TV Mini-series (10h59m)
Director: Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Anthony Andrews, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Jones, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud
Synopsis:
Charles Ryder, an Army officer camped outside a stately home, reminisces over his pre-War acquaintance with the family that lived there, a story that stretches back to Oxford in the 1920s.
Review:
This Granada TV production was probably the most ambitious thing ever to have been undertaken by a television studio, on either side of the pond, and it had quality written all over it. Based on a literary classic, but venturing well beyond the studio unlike the BBC's treasured Sunday nighters, it had a stellar cast and a roster of new faces, a tactic repeated by the 2008 movie version. Irons' unforgettable narration is superb, of course (he seemed suddenly to be everywhere at the time), but it is the early episodes that are the best, before the dreariness sets in.
Country: GB
Technical: col/1.33:1 TV Mini-series (10h59m)
Director: Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Anthony Andrews, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Jones, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud
Synopsis:
Charles Ryder, an Army officer camped outside a stately home, reminisces over his pre-War acquaintance with the family that lived there, a story that stretches back to Oxford in the 1920s.
Review:
This Granada TV production was probably the most ambitious thing ever to have been undertaken by a television studio, on either side of the pond, and it had quality written all over it. Based on a literary classic, but venturing well beyond the studio unlike the BBC's treasured Sunday nighters, it had a stellar cast and a roster of new faces, a tactic repeated by the 2008 movie version. Irons' unforgettable narration is superb, of course (he seemed suddenly to be everywhere at the time), but it is the early episodes that are the best, before the dreariness sets in.