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Crew: Book Author
Actors: Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Jonathan Cake, Patrick Malahide, Thomas Morrison
Synopsis: Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of love and the British class system has been given a polished screen adaptation in this film version from director Julian Jarrold. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) was raised in a middle-class household and though he's never known want and is fortunate enough to have Read More
Actors: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant
Synopsis: British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature-film debut with the witty, sophisticated comedy Bright Young Things, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies. Set in London during the '30s, this stylish period film follows an ensemble cast of well-dressed and highly literate Read More
Actors: Daniel Craig, Megan Dodds
Synopsis: First adapted as a three-part TV miniseries by the BBC in 1967, Evelyn Waugh's darkly humorous novel trilogy Sword of Honour was remade as a two-parter by Britain's Channel 4 34 years later. On this occasion, Daniel Craig was cast as Waugh's hapless protagonist Guy Crouchback, a WWII-era British Read More
Actors: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's Read More
Synopsis: Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The Read More
Synopsis: Based on the waspish novel by Evelyn Waugh, the British miniseries Scoop is set during the 1930s. Harry Worth stars as William Boot, the less-than-intrepid star reporter for a rural British newspaper called the Daily Beast. Through an incredible bureaucratic snafu, Boot gets booted off to colonial Read More
Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier
Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More
Synopsis: Adapted from a 1964 trilogy of novels by humorist Evelyn Waugh, the three-part BBC miniseries Sword of Honour was all about a man born approximately 200 years too late. Edward Woodward starred as the incurably idealistic Guy Crouchback, who after being dumped by his icy socialite wife Virginia (Vivian Pickles Read More
Actors: Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, Dana Andrews, James Coburn
Synopsis: The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned Read More
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