Rent Vanity Fair: Series (1987)
4.1 of 5 from 46 ratings
8h 10min
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- Synopsis:
Eve Matheson and Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic, filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios. Set in the Napoleonic Wars, 'Vanity Fair' is a rich and resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray, there is "great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling". Becky (Eve Matheson), the penniless, orphaned daughter of an artist and a French opera dancer, and Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire), the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely, but firm friends. From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo, 'Vanity Fair' tells their story. Becky, an irrepressible schemer - one of the most seductive social climbers of all time - will stop at nothing to get what she wants. While her friend, the meek and mild Amelia, pursues the opposite course. In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned. Jack Klaff stars as the red blooded Rawdon Crawley, Benedict Taylor as the dashing young officer, George Osborne, James Saxon as Amelia's brother, Jos, Simon Dormandy as Osborne's loyal friend, Dobbin, and Freddie Jones as the lecherous Sir Pitt Crawley. - Actors:
- Eve Matheson, Rebecca Saire, Simon Dormandy, Jack Klaff, David Swift, James Saxon, Gillian Raine, Benedict Taylor, Shaughan Seymour, Philippa Urquhart, Freddie Jones, Ray Mort, Robert Lang, John Bowler, Hilda Fenemore, Jane Gambier, Alastair Haley, Irene MacDougall, Adrian Ross Magenty, John Shrapnel
- Directors:
- Diarmuid Lawrence, Michael Owen Morris
- Producers:
- Terrance Dicks
- Writers:
- Alexander Baron, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films and Shows About British Princes
