Bibliograph

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens ; BBC ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo

Type

Label

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens ; BBC ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Bleak House

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

319440867

Responsibility statement

by Charles Dickens ; BBC ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark ; directed by Justin Chadwick, Susanna White ; a BBC/WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo

Runtime

465

Summary

Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. Twines through the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification