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Film Description
In this powerful TV adatation of Henry James's classic novel, superbly adapted for the screen by Jack Pulman (I, Claudius), Suzanne Neve stars as the young Isabel Archer. On the death of her father, she refuses the hand of Mr. Goodwood and leaves her married sisters for Europe in the company of her rich eccentric Aunt Lydia.
Welcomed into the bosom of her aunt's family, she is soon befriended by her cousin Ralph (Richard Chamberlain) who respects and admires her independent spirit. Ralph persuades his father, on the aged man's deathbed, to divert half his fortune to Isabel, while he watches to see what she makes of her now fully-funded freedom.
The choices she makes, both good and bad, will have a deep and long-lasting impact on those around her, arousing much passion and weighted with much grief. In his book 'The Realists', acclaimed author C.P. Snow described this production as 'a supreme television achievement, aesthetically and in all other ways.'
