BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, PART 7: THE UNSEEN HOOK (TV)
Summary
Part seven in this eleven-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel about Charles Ryder and his relationship with the aristocratic Flyte family, residents of the Brideshead estate. In this episode, Charles returns from the continent around the time of the General Strike of 1926. He enrolls in the defense corps and seems consumed by the struggle against the working classes. Julia learns of his return and informs him that Lady Marchmain is dying. At a party, Charles runs into Anthony Blanche, who updates him on Sebastian's whereabouts, saying that he last saw him in Tangiers living with a German man. He thinks that they're currently in French Morocco. Charles visits Marchmain House where Julia apologizes to him on behalf of her mother and asks him to help find Sebastian since Lady Marchmain is so near death. Charles goes to Casablanca and finds Sebastian living in the native village with Kurt, his German companion. Kurt has shot himself in the foot and appears to be living off Sebastian, who is currently in the hospital suffering from influenza. Charles visits him and tells him that his mother is very sick and would like to see him before she dies, but Sebastian isn't well enough to travel. When Sebastian starts smuggling alcohol into the hospital, the doctor says that he must go home. Charles escorts him back to Kurt, who believes his foot injury to be more serious than Sebastian's condition and bosses him around the house. That same afternoon, Lady Marchmain is buried at Brideshead.
Details
- NETWORK: ITV (United Kingdom)
- DATE: November 30, 1999
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:37
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:29136
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; International Collection - United Kingdom; LGBT Collection - Drama
- SERIES RUN: ITV (United Kingdom) - TV series, 1981
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Derek Granger … Producer
- Martin Thompson … Associate Producer
- Michael Lindsay-Hogg … Director
- Charles Sturridge … Director
- Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St. John) … Based on the novel by
- John Mortimer … Adapted by
- Geoffrey Burgon … Music by
- Jeremy Irons … Cast, Charles Ryder
- Anthony Andrews … Cast, Sebastien Flyte
- John Gielgud … Cast, Edward Ryder
- Phoebe Nicholls … Cast, Cordelia Flyte
- Diana Quick … Cast, Julia Flyte Mottram
- Claire Bloom … Cast, Lady Marchmain
- Charles Keating … Cast, Rex Mottram
- Nickolas Grace … Cast, Anthony Blanche
- Jeremy Sinden … Cast, Boy Mulcaster
- Jonathan Coy … Cast, Kurt
- Raymond Mason … Cast, the Organizer
- Lawrence Evans … Cast, the Footman
- Roger Milner … Cast, Wilcox
- Andy Rahleigh … Cast, the Policeman
- Anna Quayle … Cast, Nancy Tallboys
- Glenna Forster-Jones … Cast, Blackbird Singer #1
- Ena Cabayo … Cast, Blackbird Singer #2
- Chester Harriott … Cast, the Pianist
- Trevor Butler … Cast, Blackbird #1
- Solita Byron … Cast, Blackbird #2
- Stacy Hughes … Cast, Blackbird #3
- Patricia Kendall John … Cast, Blackbird #4
- Elroy Josephs … Cast, Blackbird #5
- Vincent Osborne … Cast, Blackbird #6
- Abraham Osuagwe … Cast, Blackbird #7
- David Rhule … Cast, Blackbird #8
- Geoffrey Chater … Cast, the Consul
- Guy Gregory … Cast, the Porter
- Nicholas LePrevost … Cast, the Doctor
- Patrick Monckton … Cast, the Brother