David Collings

Persuasion -- Seven years after their breakup, a spinster and an impoverished sailor attempt to rekindle their aborted romance.

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A young couple's stormy romance scandalizes English society in this acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's classic love story. Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds of the Royal Shakespeare Company are the star-crossed lovers, Anne and Wentworth, whose passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight yearslater, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own? Adding flirtatious fun to Austen's irresistible romance, Persuasion takes your breathe away! A dazzling five-star feast.

Seven years after their breakup, a spinster and an impoverished sailor attempt to rekindle their aborted romance.

Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. Anne is, by the conventions of society, considered an old maid when she remains unmarried at 27. However, a second chance arrives when her former love, Captain Wentworth, returns from the Napoleonic Wars.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A Colonel in British Intelligence discovers a plot to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister and, following the murder of two of his colleagues, he takes refuge in Richard Hannay's apartment. Realising he is being stalked, he heads for St Pancras station where he meets Hannay and dies in his arms having been stabbed.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

When demolitions expert Hennessy (Rod Steiger) sees his family gunned down by a British officer at a protest rally in Belfast, Northern Ireland, it ignites in him a fiery thirst for revenge. He travels to London, plotting to blow up Parliament and the Queen. In disguise and wired with a bomb, Hennessy enters Parliament, as frenzied Inspector Hollis (Richard Johnson) leads a massive manhunt to stop an unprecedented disaster.

A young couple's stormy romance scandalizes English society in this acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's classic love story. Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds of the Royal Shakespeare Company are the star-crossed lovers, Anne and Wentworth, whose passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight yearslater, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own? Adding flirtatious fun to Austen's irresistible romance, PERSUASION takes your breathe away! A dazzling five-star feast.