Ruth Mitchell

The Fool (1990)

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christine Edzard
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Cyril Cusack  •  Ruth Mitchell  •  Maria Aitken

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christine Edzard
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Cyril Cusack  •  Ruth Mitchell  •  Maria Aitken

Jane Eyre (1997)

Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Young
CAST:  Ciarán Hinds  •  Deborah Findlay  •  Laura Harling  •  Samantha Morton

Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Young
CAST:  Ciarán Hinds  •  Deborah Findlay  •  Laura Harling  •  Samantha Morton

In Denial of Murder (2004)

Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central ...  (more)

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CAST:  Stephen Tompkinson  •  Jason Watkins  •  Caroline Catz  •  David Troughton

Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central ...  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Stephen Tompkinson  •  Jason Watkins  •  Caroline Catz  •  David Troughton

Whistling Wally (1982)

"While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us....."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerald Blake
CAST:  Mark Botham  •  Kenneth Farrington  •  Julie Peasgood  •  Paul McGann

"While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us....."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerald Blake
CAST:  Mark Botham  •  Kenneth Farrington  •  Julie Peasgood  •  Paul McGann