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Bookmark this pageSilas Marner (1985)
Director: Giles Foster
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From Time Out Film Guide
For sheer prettiness, this is the apotheosis of BBC tea-time classicism. Real locations (care- fully muddied roads, immaculately authentic masonry) look more artificial than any studio mock-up. Foster's ambling treatment of George Eliot's novel - embittered outcast rediscovering humanity - generates the urgency of a waxworks show in its picturesque rollcall of accomplished players, Kingsley's self-consciously actorish miser included. MHoy.Author: MHoy
Cast & crew
Director: Giles Foster
Producer: Louis Marks
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart, Freddie Jones, Rosemary Martin, Patsy Kensit, Jim Broadbent, Frederick Treves, Angela Pleasence full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 92 mins
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