Hugh Walters

The Missionary -- In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes.

A governess agrees to bear a child for her aristocratic employer but finds herself experiencing deep feelings for him and her baby in this period costume drama.

A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.

In 1838 a beautiful Swiss governess and an English landowner, meet for three days to satisfy the terms of a secret business agreement. He will give her money to pay her father's debts and in return she will give him a child. The powerful desires awakened by this brief encounter draw them together seven years later when, without his knowledge and in his absence, she is hired as the governess to their daughter. Forced together under the same roof and held apart by the conventions of the time, they are freed only in the magic of the firelight.

In 1838, a governess agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner in return to pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate who turns out to be the daughter that she gave up.

Comedy legend Michael Palin (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) heads an all-star cast in this irresistible British comedy treat! In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes, located in the worst area of town. A wealthy married patron (two-time Academy Award winner Maggie Smith) offers to help improve his station, on the condition that he also minister to her… in the bedroom! A witty, delightful comedy of manners and misunderstandings, THE MISSIONARY delivers divine comedy to one and all!

Richard Loncraine directs this offbeat British comedy about a missionary (Michael Palin), the Rev. Charles Fortescue, who makes it his personal calling to save the souls of "ladies of the night" -- a venture financed by the eccentric Lady Ames (Maggie Smith). Soon, the pastor's flock is teeming with prostitutes who have some very unconventional ideas about the path to salvation.

In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes.

In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes.

Alfie Darling with Joan Collins

Alfie Darling with Joan Collins