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Title Adam Bede / screenplay by Maggie Wadey ; based on the novel by George Eliot ; directed by Giles Foster ; produced by Peter Goodchild ; a BBC production in association with WGBH/Boston
Published [London, England] : BBC Worldwide, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (104 minutes)
Summary Maggie Wadey's adaptation of George Eliot's classic novel reveals deep passion hiddedn within the pastoral idyll of early 19th Century Engand. Adam Bede is an honest, hard-working carpenter who has set his heart on Hetty Sorrel, the prettiest girl in the village. But Hetty is fickle and hates her life on the farm, and when the squire's grandson pays her his attentions, her head is quickly turned, with devastating consequences for all
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed May 11, 2022)
Credits Music, Richard Hartley ; photography, Rex Maidment ; production designer, Paul Joel ; film editor, Dick Allen ; costume design, Sheena Napier ; make-up design, Dawn Alcock
Cast Patsy Kensit (Hetty Sorrel), Susannah Harker (Dinah Morris), Michael Percival (Court official), Edward Jewesbury (Judge), Brian Osborne (Jury spokesman), Iain Glen (Adam Bede), Robert Stephens (Reverend Irwine), Paul Brooke (Martin Poyser), Julia McKenzie (Mrs. Poyser), Tacita Haffenden (Totty Poyser), Chase Marks (Tommy Poyser), William Holmes (Marty Poyser), Alan Cox (Seth Bede), Michael Robbins (Thias Bede), Jean Marsh (Lisbeth Bede), James Wilby (Arthur Donnithorne), Jonathan Coy (Pym), Angus Barnett (Labourer), Freddie Jones (Squire), Johnny Van Derrick (Alick), Roy Evans (Coachman), Jack Milner (Traveller), Jennie Heslewood (Landlady), Bill Moody (Landlord), Patsy Byrne (Sarah Stone), James Greene (Prosecution council), George Innes (John Olding), John Burgess (Sheriff)
Notes In English
Subject Carpenters -- Drama
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain -- Drama
Aristocracy (Social class)
Carpenters
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837 -- Drama
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Drama
History
Television adaptations
Drama.
Television adaptations.
Théâtre.
Adaptations télévisées.
Form Streaming video
Author Wadey, Maggie. screenwriter.
Foster, Giles. director.
Goodchild, Peter, 1939- producer.
Glen, Iain, 1961- actor.
Kensit, Patsy. actor.
Wilby, James. actor.
Harker, Susannah. actor.
Television adaptation of (work) : Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Adam Bede.
British Broadcasting Corporation. production company.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.
BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.