TENDER IS THE NIGHT, EPISODE 5: 1928 (TV)
Summary
Continued from T:23460. Part five 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." In this episode, Dick arrives in Rome, where he runs into Rosemary, the actress with whom he had an affair earlier. When Dick returns to Nicole in Switzerland, he is restless and unsure of his future, especially following the brutal murder of his friend, Abe North. Concludes with T:23462.
Details
- NETWORK: BBC (United Kingdom)
- DATE: October 21, 1985
- RUNNING TIME: 0:53:07
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:23461
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; International Collection - United Kingdom
- SERIES RUN: BBC (England) - 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
- Edward Asner … Cast, Devereux Warren
- Joris Stuyck … Cast, Tommy Barban
- Hutton Cobb … Cast, Collis Clay
- Marc-Samuel Hadjadj … Cast, Nicotera
- Frank Karla … Cast, Film Director
- Kate Harper … Cast, Baby Warren
- Matt Frewer … Cast, American in Bar
- Rolf Saxon … Cast, American in Bar
- William Hope … Cast, American in Bar
- Teco Celio … Cast, Rome Taxi Driver
- David Pontremoli … Cast, Rome Police Officer
- Guido Adorni … Cast, Carabinieri Captain
- Joanna David … Cast, Hannah
- Jurgen Brugger … Cast, Franz Gregorovius
- Astrid Frank … Cast, Kaethe Gregorovius
- Timothy West … Cast, Mr. Morris
- Terrance Conder … Cast, Royal Dumphry
- Jean Reno … Cast, Doctor Dangeu
- Nicholas Amer … Cast, Spanish Patient
- Louis Selwyn … Cast, Young Man