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Silas Marner

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Silas Marner
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1hr 32min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1985
Director:
Giles Foster
Distributor:
BBC Warner
Starring:
Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart  ...more
Synopsis: This TV adaptation of George Elliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner was one of the rare single-episode presentations of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Ben Kingsley plays Silas Marner, who after being falsely accused of a crime and banished from his own town, becomes a miserly recluse in the small British community of Raveloe. When his precious cache of money is stolen by the town wastrel (Jonathan Coy) Silas can see no reason for going on with life. He is transformed from misanthrope to rehabilitated human ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review
Ominous music, misty vales, and the fixed gaze of entranced eyes set a somber mood at the opening of this 1985 made-for-TV adaptation of Silas Marner, the classic George Eliot (1819-1880) tale of greed and redemption set in early 19th century England. Ben Kingsley wears the threadbare mantle of Marner, a linen weaver exiled by church members in Lantern Yard after they falsely accuse him of theft. Book ... Full Review
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Ben Kingsley
Silas Marner
Jenny Agutter
Nancy Lammeter
Patrick Ryecart
Godfrey Cass
Jonathan Coy
Dunstan Cass
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