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Adam Bede
(1991)BBC
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SYNOPSIS
The honest, upright and faithful Adam Bede is a humble carpenter who falls in love with the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorrel. Hetty spurns Adam in favour of a wealthy marriage to a nobleman, Lord Arthur. Though deeply hurt, Adam never relinquishes his love and tries to win Hetty back in his own single-minded, diligent fashion. Balancing the romantic drama is the calm, good-hearted presence of Adam's childhood sweetheart, Dinah Morris who waits patiently for Adam's love to return. In this fine BBC drama, adapted from George Eliot's classic novel, the evocations of a bygone rural life are charged with passions of seduction and betrayal, as Adam discovers moral growth and redemption.
REVIEWS
After all the cold scraps of recycled repeats and old movies, 'Adam Bede' (BBC1) itself adapted by Maggie Wadey and directed by Giles Foster was one of the few new works of the New Year and it was as good as any adaptation of the classics the BBC has done for a very long time. The Mail On Sunday, John Wells
Giles Foster gave us a fine adaptation of 'Adam Bede'. The hayfields and horses glistened in careful composition like a Stubbs landscape in this first version of George Eliot's tragedy... Maggie Wadey's intelligent adaptation boldly took it's time evoking the pace of rural eighteenth century life while skimping on the novel's moral waffle. Rex Maidment's camera probed the well cast faces of the actors for the story's emotional resonances. Iain Glen's forceful Adam had a genuine virile decency.
Independent On Sunday, John Lair
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Credits
Iain Glen
Adam BedePatsy Kensit
Hetty SorrelSusannah Harker
Dinah MorrisJames Wilby
Arthur DonnithorneJulia McKenzie
Mrs. PoyserRobert Stephens
Reverend IrwineJean Marsh
Lisbeth BedeFreddie Jones
Old SquireMichael Percival
Court OfficialEdward Jewesbury
JudgeBrian Osborne
Jury SpokesmanPaul Brooke
Martin PoyserTacita Haffenden
Totty PoyserChase Marks
Tommy PoyserWilliam Holmes
Marty PoyserAlan Cox
Seth BedeMichael Robbins
Thias BedeJonathan Coy
PymJohnnie Van Derrick
AlickJennie Heslewood
LandladyBill Moody
LandlordPatsy Byrne
Sarah StoneJames Greene
Prosecution CouncilGeorge Innes
John OldingJohn Burgess
SheriffDirector
Giles FosterWriters (original novel)
George EliotWriters (screenplay)
Maggie WadeyProducer
Peter GoodchildCinematographer
Rex Maidment
Adam Bede was as good as any adaptation of the classics the BBC has done for a very long time.
