The Good Soldier
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Originally produced for British television broadcast in 1981.
Special features: Cast filmographies, Ford Madox Ford biography [text features].
Saddest story -- All good people -- Unlikely friendship -- Everything and nothing -- Poor Maisie -- Sentimental -- Truest of all -- August 4th -- Facing the truth -- Visiting the Ashburnhams -- Desperate -- Tension building -- Dying of love -- Selfish -- Bit of rest.
Robin Ellis (John Dowell), Susan Fleetwood (Leonora Ashburnham), Vickery Turner (Florence Dowell), Elizabeth Garvie (Nancy Rufford), Jeremy Brett (Edward Ashburnham), Pauline Moran (Maisie Maidan), Goeffrey Chater (Bagshawe), John Ratzenberger (Jimmy).
In the decade preceding World War I, two wealthy, handsome couples--English Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora, and American John Dowell and his wife Florence--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at various spas, the splendid foursome lives elegant, perfect lives. But nothing is as it seems. As John says at one point, "My wife and I knew the Captain and his wife Mrs. Ashburnham as well as was possible to know anybody. And yet we knew nothing about them at all." The film explores the power games, class snobbery, sexual lies, and lack of intimacy that boil beneath the placid, pristine exteriors the upper classes show the world. The story is presented in flashback, a literary technique Madox Ford helped popularize.
DVD; Dolby Digital sound; full screen presentation, aspect ratio 4x3.
Contents: Good soldier.
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PUBLISHED
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Rated: NR
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1569389241
9781569389249
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Mitchell, Julian, 1935-
Eckersley, Peter, producer.
Billington, Kevin.
Ellis, Robin, 1942-
Fleetwood, Susan, 1944-1995.
Turner, Vickery.
Garvie, Elizabeth.
Brett, Jeremy, 1933-1995.
Moran, Pauline.
Chater, Geoffrey, 1921-
Ratzenberger, John.
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
Granada Television.
Acorn Media (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Ford, Ford Madox, -- 1873-1939 -- Film adaptations.
Adultery -- Drama.
Friendship -- Drama.
Married people -- Drama.
Married women -- Drama.
Manipulative behavior -- Drama.
Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Women -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
Health resorts -- Germany -- Drama.
Germany -- Drama.
Television movies.
Melodrama.
Melodrama.
Made-for-TV movies.
Television adaptations.
Melodrama -- Television feature.
Adaptation -- Television feature.