Noble House - 2-Disc Set ( James Clavell's Noble House )

Noble House - 2-Disc Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: James Clavell's Noble House
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
360 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Gary Nelson

Written By:
Eric Bercovici
James Clavell

Actors:
Pierce Brosnan ..... Ian Dunross
Deborah Raffin ..... Casey Tcholok
Ben Masters ..... Linc Bartlett
John Rhys-Davies ..... Quillan Gornt
Julia Nickson ..... Orlanda Ramos (4 episodes, 1988)
Khigh Dhiegh ..... Four Finger Wu
Gordon Jackson ..... Supt. Armstrong
Burt Kwouk ..... Philip Chen
Nancy Kwan ..... Claudia Chen (4 episodes, 1988)
John Van Dreelen ..... Jacques DeVille
Ping Wu ..... Paul Choy
Kay Tong Lim ..... Brian Kwok
Lisa Lu ..... Ah Tam (4 episodes, 1988)
Damien Thomas ..... Lando Mata
Dudley Sutton ..... Commissioner Roger Crosse
Ric Young ..... Tsu-Yan
Tia Carrere ..... Venus Poon (4 episodes, 1988)
Steven Vincent Leigh ..... John Chen
John Houseman ..... Sir Geoffrey Allison
Denholm Elliott ..... Alastair Struan
Harris Laskawy ..... Christian Toxe (4 episodes, 1988)
Leon Lissek ..... Tip Tok-Toh
Keith Bonnard ..... Jason Plumm
Edward Petherbridge ..... Richard Kwang
Bennett Ohta ..... Goodweather Poon
Brian Fong ..... Mrs. Kwang (4 episodes, 1988)
Helen Funai ..... Baldhead Kin
Irene Tsu ..... Havergill
David Shaughnessy ..... Bruce Johnjohn (4 episodes, 1988)
John Fujioka ..... Travkin (4 episodes, 1988)
Richard Durden ..... Mary Li (4 episodes, 1988)
David Henry ..... Inspector Smyth
George Innes ..... Pugmire (4 episodes, 1988)
Choy-Ling Man ..... Linbar Struan
Pip Miller ..... Lim Chu
Duncan Preston ..... Smallpox Kin
Michael Siberry
Vincent Wong
Galen Yuen

Synopsis:

Despite its impressive history and its reputation, the international trading company Struan's (the Noble House of the title) is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new Tai-Pan Ian Dunross (Pierce Brosnan) has had to issue public stock to improve the company's financial standing. Even this, however, has not given him the capital he needs. As a result he is courting a private investor, American billionaire Linc Bartlett (Ben Masters). Bartlett decides secretly to back Dunross' arch enemy, Quillian Gornt (John Rhys-Davies), who will stop at nothing to destroy Struan's. When Dunross realises that Gornt is suddenly strong enough to ruin the Noble House, he must urgently forge new alliances or reshape ancient ones. He romances Bartlett's second-in-command, Casey Tcholok (Deborah Raffin). A subplot involves the missing half of an ancient coin. Whoever possesses it may ask any favour of the Tai-Pan. Half the coin is acquired by crime lord Four Finger Wu (Khigh Dhiegh), who aims to ask the Tai-Pan to help him smuggle opium. Wu and Bartlett are killed in a natural disaster. Wu's son redeems his father's stolen half-coin for a highly-paid position in Noble House. Dunross gains access to the Bank of China, whose funding allows him to foil Gornt's scheme. Tcholok becomes head of Bartlett's company, allying the organization with Struan's.

Ian Struan Dunross is chairman of Struan & Co, the oldest and largest of the British-East Asia trading companies. To the Chinese, that also makes him 'Tai-Pan' ('supreme leader') of the 'Noble House'. Unfortunately, with his power, he inherits ancient promises, dark secrets and deep financial problems on a small island full of people who want to see Struan's fall so they can become the Noble House. Dunross' worst enemy is the vicious Quillan Gornt, a lesser tai-pan, and he's doing everything in his power to bring the Noble House to ruin. Drawn into the fight between Gornt and Dunross is an upstart American billionaire who tries to gain a foothold on the Hong Kong market and has made a deal to steal something that will give him power, even over the Noble House. Unfortunately, that something has fallen into the hands of a powerful Chinese overlord. 'Everybody was watching [and cheating on] everybody.' Who will succeed in the end?

James Clavell's blockbuster novel of rivalry, extortion, and murder comes to particularly splashy life in this 1988 NBC miniseries that is set in the high-stakes business world of Hong Kong, where it was largely filmed. Pierce Brosnan is Ian Dunross, just named the tai-pan (CEO) of the powerful Anglo-Asian trading company Struan & Co. Before the champagne has stopped bubbling, a nasty piece of work named Quillan Gornt (played with relish by Indy 4's most notable absentee, John Rhys-Davies) targets Struan for a hostile takeover. Suddenly plunged into a criminal underworld of international espionage, deception, and financial crises, Dunross turns up the heat by engaging in a dangerous romance with his nemesis' aide (Deborah Raffin). But with danger lurking around every corner, Dunross ultimately sees he has no choice but to fight for his company's honor and survival.

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