The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders - 2-DVD Set ( Moll Flanders ) ( The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders )

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$29.99

Original Title: Moll Flanders
Alternate Title: The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
200 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Attwood

Written By:
Andrew Davies
Daniel Defoe

Actors:
James Bowers ..... Gaoler
Alex Kingston ..... Moll Flanders
Nicola Kingston ..... Moll's Mother
Geoffrey Beevers ..... Judge
Lucy Evans ..... Little Moll
Anthony Bessick ..... Gypsy
Struan Rodger ..... Mr. Richardson
Chrissie Cotterill ..... Mrs. Fairley
Peter Jonfield ..... Parish Officer
Neville Phillips ..... Magistrate
Maureen O'Brien ..... Mrs. Richardson
Ian Driver ..... Robin
Caroline Harker ..... Maria
Dawn McDaniel ..... Emily
Ken McDonald ..... Mr. Baggot
Mary Healey ..... Mrs. Baggot
Jeff Nuttall ..... Pub Landlord
Philip Fox ..... Priest at wedding
Daniel Craig ..... James 'Jemmy' Seagrave
Victoria Scarborough ..... Estella
James Larkin ..... Capt. Stephens
Christopher Fulford ..... Daniel Dawkins
Michael Johnson ..... Horner
Andrew Mayor ..... Mr. Pinchwife
Roger Ashton-Griffiths ..... Gent at Mint
Evie Garratt ..... Old Woman at Mint
Roger Morlidge ..... Fat Sea Captain
Sam Halpenny ..... Thin Sea Captain
Tom Ward ..... Lemuel
Diana Rigg ..... Mrs. Golightly
Dan D. Fough ..... Major Bastock
Bill Thomas ..... Lancaster Innkeeper
Trevyn McDowell ..... Mrs Seagrave
Guy Scantlebury ..... Capt. O'Malley
Anthony O'Donnell ..... Catholic Priest
Matthew O'Neill ..... Stable Boy
James Fleet ..... James Bland
John Savident ..... Clergyman in coach
Anna Welsh ..... Elderly lady in coach
Alison Lomas ..... Cheeky serving girl
Alistair Donkin ..... Vicar at wedding
Patti Love ..... Mrs. Riordan
Catherine Keis ..... Mrs. Bland
Tony Milner ..... Landlord at Ware
Anya Phillips ..... Servant girl
Milton Johns ..... Mr. Meikeljohn
Nicola Walker ..... Lucy Diver
Jenna Hodges ..... Dancing school girl
Lucy Fitzmaurice ..... Lady Wishfort
Claire Keepie ..... Foible
Jonathan Weir ..... Fop at Theatre
Brian Rawlinson ..... Judge
Will Tacey ..... Tyburn Priest
Irving Czechowicz ..... Fat man at Tyburn
Ronald Fraser ..... Sir Richard Gregory
Ruth Mitchell ..... Abigail
Dallas Campbell ..... Master Deniston
David Burston ..... Constable
David Norman ..... Prisoner with rat (as Dave Norman)
Elizabeth Skelton ..... Swell Mob Woman
Colin Buchanan ..... Rowland
Caroline Trowbridge ..... Annie
Jeffrey Robert ..... Clerk of Court (as Jeff Robert)

Synopsis:

This energetic, sardonic, and richly funny adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic novel is completely unlike what you might expect from genteel Masterpiece Theatre. The heroine, Moll Flanders (Alex Kingston), after being born in prison, wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands (including a roguish highwayman who becomes the love of her life), many lovers (male and female), travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life. Kingston tears into her role with gleeful amorality and delicious charm, often turning to the camera with a seductive smile to ask, 'What would you do?' This British miniseries is brilliantly written, skillfully directed, and superbly acted all around (with particularly delightful performances by Diana Rigg and Daniel Craig) - in short, among the best of its kind; both a cunning examination of social morés and a hugely entertaining story. Not to be missed.

In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders, dubbed 'the wickedest woman in England' tells her story. Born in the gaol, after her mother is transported Moll is raised by the kindly mayor of Colchester and his wife, whose two sons lust after her. She enjoys sex with handsome Rowland, who teaches her that money talks, but, realizing he only wants her as a mistress, she marries his duller brother Robin, who conveniently dies after five years, leaving her wealthy. She goes to London, briefly meeting highwayman Jemmy Seagrove, and marries parvenu draper Daniel Dawkins, but he has huge debts and must flee to France, leaving Moll alone and poor. Moll meets handsome young American sea captain Lemuel Golightly, who marries her and takes her to Virginia and a good life style, along with his mother. They have two children and are blissfully happy until Moll discovers her mother-in-law is also her birth mother. She has married her own brother. She returns to England and poses as wealthy widow Lady Flanders, being proposed to by James Seagrove, who has land in Ireland. Jemmy Seagrove turns out to be a penniless fortune-seeker like Moll but there is love on both sides. He leaves her to resume life as a highwayman but says he will return for her. On a coach to London - which Jemmy robs but secretly gives Moll the other victims' goods - she meets protective banker Mr. Bland, who becomes her next spouse but dies of shock when he learns he has been financially ruined. Moll is left poor and alone again and resorts to crime. Moll moves in with landlady Mrs. Riordan, a robbers' fence, along with fellow thief Jenny Diver, whom she initially meets after stealing the loot Jenny has hidden. The two women steal - and sometimes sleep - together but Jenny is caught and hanged. Moll is depressed and even seems remorseful after stooping to rob a little girl. She takes to rolling rich drunken lechers at the theatre, including Sir Richard Godfrey, who is much taken by her, but she is caught and sentenced to the gallows. In Newgate she sees Jemmy, who has also been captured and whose fate is transportation. Moll prepares to meet her death but Jemmy arrives at the gallows, having 'persuaded' Sir Richard to commute her sentence to transportation. They sail to America together, to see her relatives again.

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