TENDER IS THE NIGHT, EPISODE 3: 1925 (TV)
Summary
Continued from T:24165. Part three of six. Considered British writer Dennis Potter's most elaborate adaptation, "Tender Is the Night" focuses on the mental anguish of a doomed romance between Dick Diver and Nicole Warren. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote two versions of the novel, and Potter followed the later version, which is told in chronological order and details how the obsessive love developed over time. Potter conceived of the work as "a fable imposed on a love story and since it's so clearly about Fitzgerald and Zelda, the love story is the dread of what's going to happen to him as a human being." This episode begins in Paris in 1925 where Dick and Nicole Diver have come to see their friends back to America. A series of strange events causes problems for the Divers. Continues with T:23460.
Details
- NETWORK: BBC (United Kingdom)
- DATE: October 7, 1985
- RUNNING TIME: 0:56:27
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:23450
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; International Collection - United Kingdom
- SERIES RUN: BBC (United Kingdom) - TV series, 1985
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jonathan Powell … Executive Producer
- Betty Willingale … Producer
- Robert Knights … Director
- Dennis Potter … Adapted by
- F. Scott Fitzgerald … Writer
- Richard Rodney Bennett … Music by
- Christopher Wren … Choreographer
- Peter Strauss … Cast, Dick Diver
- Mary Steenburgen … Cast, Nicole Warren
- John Heard … Cast, Abe North
- Sean Young … Cast, Rosemary Hoyt
- Nancy Paul … Cast, Mary North
- Linsey Beauchamp … Cast, Girl at Cemetery
- Tacy Kneale … Cast, Maria Wallis
- Stephane Freiss … Cast, Jules Peterson
- Philippe Mareuil … Cast, Paris Hotel Manager