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Louis Trevelyan's refusal to trust his wife, Emily, destroys their marriage and drives him to insanity. He forces her out of their house, hires a seedy private detective to spy on her and kidnaps their son - with devastating consequences. Meanwhile, Emily's sister Nora causes uproar when she decides to marry for love rather than wealth; and the local curate, who possibly has the most complex love life of all, proposes to not one woman, but three.
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96 of 99 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Having seen this production on TV, I eagerly awaited the DVD and was not disappointed. The series was shot in my home city of Wells, on and around the Cathedral Green, and many of the locations are very familiar (it did a very good job for advertising the beauties of the surrounding area of Somerset, and the city, Englands smallest, itself!) The story starts happily enough - a young couple, starting married life, in Victorian society, but the husband soon becomes suspicous that his pretty wife is not being faithful to him. Is he right, or is he wrong? He sets out to prove that he has has been cuckolded by her, therefore destroying all that he holds dear. I recommend this DVD to all because it is not only a stunning production, but a really good, involving story, based on a little known, very large classic novel, and the cast is superb. Listen for the cathedral bells ringing out too - magical, filling the air with music, combining with beautiful costumes, the acting which is second to none, and a cracking good story and you get your value for money. Brilliant.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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This production is quality through and through. It tells Trollope's tale of a young man and woman and their child, whose happiness is permanently blighted by what amounts to his neurotic and indeed paranoid obsession that his wife is having an affair with an old friend of her father. The plot is given extra piquancy by the fact that the old friend, a retired colonel and MP, is a rake and roue who fails to show sensitivity to the situation. In time, the marriage collapses and in the end the husband goes downhill mentally and in every way. Yet at the end, he still "knew he was right"...Recommended.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Period drama adaptations rarely move me but this is wonderful, does the novel justice, brilliant cast, every one of them so appropriate for the characters they play, and a very sad and comical in places story and so glad that there is no happy-ever after feeling, but everything is just right as you would expect things to turn out in life really....
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I was right to buy this!
Absolutely loved this Victorian drama.It has everything ,suspician,jealousy,romance and tradegy,but more than that a sense of realism ,especially in the relationship of Louis and... Read more
Published 9 days ago by miss marple
QUALITY PERIOD DRAMA
The story of one man's perception and refusal to believe the truth about his wife drives him near insane, is in part very real and in another way unbelievably infuriating that,... Read more
Published 15 months ago by TYSON
MUCH TO ADMIRE (BUT NOT HIM)
The 2004 BBC adaptation by Andrew Davies of Trollope's novel. Four one hour episodes. Oliver Dimsdale is Hugh Trevelyan, wrongly convinced his wife Emily is being unfaithful - he... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. D. L. Rees
great drama
I have only recently discovered Trollope's novels, but this was a cracker, and so well done by the BBC - there is no competition for them in this genre.
Published on 1 Jan 2010 by S. Carr
A great comic film
I love English period dramas and I've seen many of them. This is the first time I come across one which is a complete failure. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2009 by J. M. Echevarria
English subtitles included
It's important to point out that DVD includes English subtitles which is very useful for English learners
Published on 4 Dec 2007 by Maria Teresa Alcalde
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