Mrs Biggs - 2-DVD Set ( Mrs. Biggs )

Mrs Biggs - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Mrs. Biggs
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
260 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Paul Whittington

Written By:
Jeff Pope

Actors:
Sheridan Smith ..... Charmian Biggs (5 episodes, 2012)
Daniel Mays ..... Ronald Biggs (5 episodes, 2012)
Carol Bunting ..... Public Gallery / ... (5 episodes, 2012)
Caroline Goodall ..... Muriel Powell (4 episodes, 2012)
Adrian Scarborough ..... Bernard Powell (4 episodes, 2012)
Tom Brooke ..... Mike Haynes (3 episodes, 2012)
Mickey Morris ..... Nicky Biggs / ... (2 episodes, 2012)
Josh Condon ..... Twiz (aged 6) / ... (2 episodes, 2012)
Oscar Sanders ..... Nicky Biggs / ... (2 episodes, 2012)
Blake Nicholson ..... Twiz / ... (2 episodes, 2012)
Jay Simpson ..... Bruce Reynolds (2 episodes, 2012)
Jack Lowden ..... Alan Wright (2 episodes, 2012)
Claire Rushbrook ..... Ruby Wright (2 episodes, 2012)
Leo Gregory ..... Eric Flower (2 episodes, 2012)
Denise Roberts ..... Annie Pitcher (2 episodes, 2012)
Ron Cook ..... Peter (2 episodes, 2012)
Jamie Croft ..... Sam (2 episodes, 2012)
Jon Foster ..... Gordon Goody (2 episodes, 2012)
Libby Tanner ..... Norma (2 episodes, 2012)
Iain McKee ..... Charlie Wilson (2 episodes, 2012)
Matthew Cullum ..... Buster Edwards (2 episodes, 2012)
Tim Draxl ..... Craig (2 episodes, 2012)
Freya Stafford ..... Julie Flower (2 episodes, 2012)
Luisa Hastings Edge ..... Lindy (2 episodes, 2012)
Phil Cornwell ..... DS Jack Slipper (2 episodes, 2012)
Trudy Hellier ..... Elsie (2 episodes, 2012)
Alison Bell ..... Joan Walter (2 episodes, 2012)
Grant Crookes ..... Court Clerk / ... (2 episodes, 2012)
Chris Edgerley ..... Jazz Club Dancer (2 episodes, 2012)
Jago North ..... Jazz Club Dancer (2 episodes, 2012)

Synopsis:

Mrs Biggs, the true story of the woman behind Britain's most famous villain, Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs. Thought-provoking, heart-warming and life affirming, this series of five episodes tracks Charmian Biggs' (Sheridan Smith) remarkable evolution from naïve young woman on a train, lured into the exciting world of charming rogue Ronald Biggs (Danny Mays), to her life as a fugitive mother fighting to keep her family together against all odds. This is the inside story of one of the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century; but more than anything it is a sweeping love story told across three decades and from one side of the world to the other.

Season 1
Episode #1.1
S1, Ep1 Sep. 5, 2012
1957:-Teen-aged Charmian Powell has a stultifying home life, dominated by her stern,headmaster father so that when she meets the charming, older Ronnie Biggs - a man with a criminal past - on a train she sees a means of escape from her family background. Ronnie persuades her to steal two hundred pounds from the bullion firm for which she works, which they use to elope to the South Coast. However they are caught and Ronnie goes back to prison whilst Charmian receives a suspended sentence. On his release they marry and have two children, Ronnie vowing to go straight and...

Episode #1.2
S1, Ep2 2012
Along with Reynolds and his gang Ronnie takes part in a violent attack on the Royal Mail train,stealing over two million pounds and brings home his share of the loot. Charmian is appalled and does not share her husband's view that he will get away with it and is proved right when he is arrested. Despite pleading not guilty he is sentenced to thirty years in prison. The house is beset by journalists and Charmian threatened by a gun-toting stranger demanding a cut of the spoils but rescued by Ruby Wright and her son Alan,friends of the fugitive Reynolds. However ...

Episode #1.3
S1, Ep3 Sep. 19, 2012
Charmian has an affair with Alan but finds herself visiting a back street abortionist after she falls pregnant. Ruby threatens to tell Ronnie unless Charmian pays her but Charmian has a better use for her cash - financing Ronnie's escape with fellow convict Eric Flower. Obtaining false passports in the name of Furminger the family flees to Australia where Ronnie gets hotel work in Adelaide. They are joined by Flower and his wife Julie,with whom Charmian is angry for telling her mother of her location. Having given birth to a third child Charmian is also unsettled to ...

Episode #1.4
S1, Ep4 Sep. 26, 2012
After Ronnie's picture appears in an Australian magazine as a wanted man he and Charmian and the boys move to Melbourne where she gets a job in a biscuit factory and he works as a foreman on a building site. However,when his picture flashes up on the evening news he decides to leave the country and goes into hiding. Charmian is arrested and the boys put into care but she raises money for a lawyer by selling her story to the press and is eventually freed and reunited with her children. She goes to see Ronnie for one last time as he sets sail for Rio De Janeiro,where ...

Episode #1.5
S1, Ep5 Oct. 3, 2012
Whilst waiting to join Ronnie in Rio Charmian is devastated when eldest son Nicky is killed in a car crash and she smuggles a letter to Ronnie to inform him. She keeps strong by taking a university degree as a mature student whilst fighting off the unwanted attentions of married Craig. Meanwhile Ronnie is visited in Rio by Jack Slipper after giving an interview to a tabloid reporter but cannot be extradited as he has impregnated girlfriend Raimunda,giving him a claim to stay in Brazil. Charmian takes the boys to see him to discuss divorce,on the assumption that they ...

The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 November, 2012.

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