NORTHANGER ABBEY

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: A tale of intrigue, adventure and romance, this enchanting dramatization captures the spirit and wit of Austen's classic novel.; ; The setting is eighteenth-century Bath, a society of decadence and deceit, into which Catherine Morland arrives bursting with freshness, integrity and a passion for macabre Gothic novels. In a time when materialism, not love, governs marriage, Catherine's head is full of fantasy and fiction, of maidens being abducted to sinister castles and heroes riding to theirescue on white horses. When romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, a dark mystery starts to unfold that makes her blood run cold. Are her fantasies coming true? What does the brooding General Tilney want from her and will the truth destroy her chance of love...?
• Cast: Katharine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Robert Hardy, Googie Withers, Geoffrey Chater, Cassie Stuart, Jonathan Coy, Ingrid Lacey, Greg Hicks, Philip Bird, Elvi Hale, Helen Fraser, David Rolfe, Elaine Ives-Cameron, Angela Curran, Tricia Morrish, Oliver Hembrough, Anne-Marie Mullane, Michelle Arthur, Sarah-Jane Holm, Raphael Alleyne, Myra Carter, Catriona Hinds, Ciarán O'Reilly, Caroline Seymour, Teresa Yenque, Giles Foster, Jane Austen, Maggie Wadey
• Director: Giles Foster
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: BBC Video, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie