The Mill - (Season 1) - 2-DVD Set

The Mill - (Season 1) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
189 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Behind the scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Hawes

Written By:
John Fay

Actors:
Connor Dempsey ..... Tommy Priestley (4 episodes, 2013)
Jamie Draven ..... Robert Greg (4 episodes, 2013)
Ciaran Griffiths ..... Matthew Boon (4 episodes, 2013)
Kerrie Hayes ..... Esther Price (4 episodes, 2013)
Holly Lucas ..... Susannah Catterall (4 episodes, 2013)
Barbara Marten ..... Hannah Greg (4 episodes, 2013)
Aidan McArdle ..... John Doherty (4 episodes, 2013)
Kevin McNally ..... Mr. Timperley (4 episodes, 2013)
Matthew McNulty ..... Daniel Bate (4 episodes, 2013)
Sacha Parkinson ..... Miriam (4 episodes, 2013)
Claire Rushbrook ..... Mrs. Timperley (4 episodes, 2013)
Donald Sumpter ..... Samuel Greg (4 episodes, 2013)
Conner Chapman ..... George Catterall (3 episodes, 2013)
Thomas Priestly ..... Noah (3 episodes, 2013)
Hugh Simon ..... Dr. Holland (3 episodes, 2013)
Katherine Rose Morley ..... Lucy Garner (3 episodes, 2013)
Craig Parkinson ..... Charlie Crout (2 episodes, 2013)
William Travis ..... The Beak (2 episodes, 2013)
Kaitlyn Hogg ..... Catherine / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Nicholas Moss ..... Lister (2 episodes, 2013)
Darren Wilder ..... Mill Worker (2 episodes, 2013)

Synopsis:

Based on a powerful true story, The Mill is a four-part drama set in the turbulent year of 1833, a time when industry is sweeping children as young as nine into the factories and mills to work 12-hour days. But things are about to change as one feisty young girl, Esther Price (Kerrie Hayes) decides to take a stand against the mill-owners and the lackeys who rule their tired and hungry lives. The Greg family pride themselves on treating their workers fairly; but in the hands of those who carry out their orders, from the Timperleys maintaining the apprentice house, to those overseeing the mill floor, kindness can soon become cruelty, with injustice and suppression the norm. But the world is changing. Inside, Daniel Greg, the mill-owner's son, is taking over the business and modernising ruthlessly; while outside, civil disobedience is on the rise. Times are changing for better or worse, and the balance of power is about to fall into the hands of a young girl called Esther Price.

Season 1
Episode #1.1 S1, Ep1 Jul. 28, 2013
1833;- Workers at the Quarry Bank cotton mill - many of them young orphans from the work-house - rise early for a long day. Over-looker Crout neglects his duty to sexually molest apprentice Miriam, leading to young Tommy losing a hand in the machinery. Hannah, the kindly, abolitionist wife of mill-owner Samuel Greg, nurses the boy back to health but her husband is more concerned that this will reflect badly when the parish commission arrives to look into working conditions. Spirited Esther Price reports Crout to them but he talks his way out of it. Meanwhile engineer ...
Episode #1.2 S1, Ep2 Aug. 4, 2013
Esther appears in court for assaulting Crout but proves that she was defending herself against his sexual advances and is charged only with taking the clapper from the bell. On return to the mill Robert sacks Crout, who reveals that Robert's younger brother William impregnated apprentice Susannah. Robert agrees to look after her and her child providing she keeps the paternity a secret. Supervisor Timperley brings the Garner sisters from the Liverpool work-house but the younger girl is deemed too sickly to work and has to be returned. Timperley lets her escape - rather...
Episode #1.3 S1, Ep3 Aug. 11, 2013
Esther and Lucy steal Timperley's horse and cart and reach the Liverpool work-house, only to find that Catherine was not returned. They suspect that Timperley killed her but Timperley follows and brings Lucy back to the mill. Esther eludes him and tries in vain to find her birth certificate but eventually she too is captured and, back at Quarry Bank, her hair is shaved and she is locked in a cell but rescued by Hannah, who accuses Robert of brutality. Timperley's callous, over-weight wife drops dead whilst climbing the stairs to the cell and the apprentices roar with ...
Episode #1.4 S1, Ep4 Aug. 18, 2013
In response to Esther's investigations in Liverpool her sister Martha arrives at the mill. Timperley tells her Esther has run off but Tommy tells her the truth and she goes to see John Doherty. Samuel Greg dies at much the same time as the bill to shorten the working day is defeated. Robert gives the newly married Daniel a half share of the new loom's patent profits as a wedding present but Daniel sees it as a bribe and destroys the money. He and Susannah defy Robert by going to a Sunday meeting addressed by John. The workers are locked up to prevent their attendance ...

Alice is hired to keep house at an old mill for the Hollands. Mrs. Holland has been bedridden for many years and her husband has been looking after her for several years.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 October, 2013.