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Pride and Prejudice

Actor(s): Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul, Natalie Ogle, Sabina Franklyn, Tessa Peake-Jones
Director(s): Cyril Coke
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Movie Details

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children
Movie Release: 1980
DVD Release: 08/24/2004
Format: DVD
Edition: Television
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 4 hrs 25 mins
Studio: BBC Warner
Members Wishing: 14
Genres: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Manners

DVD Synopsis

Fay Weldon wrote the teleplay for this 5-part BBC TV adaptation of Jane Austen's 1812 novel -Pride and Prejudice. Class-obsessed Mrs. Bennett (Priscilla Morgan) is dead set upon marrying off her five daughters to wealthy and influential young men. Headstrong Elizabeth Bennett (Elizabeth Garvie), the family's second daughter, resists her mother's plan. She is the "pride" that is "prejudiced" against snobbery and pomposity. Elizabeth is particularly incensed by the vain, aristocratic Fitzwilliam Darcy (David Rintoul)--at least until she realizes that Darcy is as prejudiced against high-toned class distinctions as she is. Telecast in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre in the fall of 1980, Pride and Prejudice was later released to video in an uninterrupted, 226-minute single serving. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Elizabeth Garvie - Elizabeth Bennet
David Rintoul - Mr. Darcy
Natalie Ogle - Lydia Bennet
Sabina Franklyn - Jane Bennet
Tessa Peake-Jones - Mary Bennet