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Below are images from "OUR MUTUAL FRIEND", the 1958 television adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1865 novel. Adapted by Freda Lingstrom, the miniseries was directed by Eric Tayler: ( Collapse )

Below is a list of my favorite television productions set in the 1850s: ( Collapse )

"A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" (1958) Review

There have been many versions about the April 1912 sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. Many versions. And I have personally seen at least five of them. One of them happened to be the 1958 movie, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER". ( Collapse )

Below are images from the 1958 adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book about the final night of the S.S. Titanic called "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER". Directed by Roy Ward Baker, the movie starred Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman and Laurence Naismith: ( Collapse )

"THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES" (1982) Review

Back in 1982, the BBC turned to 19th century author Anthony Trollope for a seven-part miniseries called "THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES". The miniseries was based upon the author’s first two Barchester novels about the Church of England. ( Collapse )

Below are screenshot images from the 1982 miniseries, "THE BARCHESTER CHRONICLES". Based upon two of Anthony Trollope's "BARCHESTER" novels - "The Warden" (1855) and "Barchester Towers" (1857), the miniseries starred Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne, Geraldine McEwan, Janet Maw, Alan Rickman, Angela Pleasence and Susan Hampshire: ( Collapse )

Below is my current list of favorite movies set in the 1910s: ( Collapse )