Although octogenarian Sylvanus Heythorp is still chairman of a shipping company, he is ￡14,000 in debt to creditors from a personal loan which he cannot repay. He is well-liked and affectionately called 'Old English' by the people of Liverpool, allowing him to settle a fixed amount to be paid from his salary, which all but one of the creditors, Charles Ventnor, begrudgingly acc...
"A Woman with a Past and Present," based on John Galsworthy's The Sun, a woman struggles to chose between her present lover and the one that is returning. "Knot It," based on Susan Glaspell's Trifles, is about the investigation of the mysterious death of a husband, possibly by his wife. The Letter, based on Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast, is about a wife who's love for her h...
In the 1920s, decades after the troubled and unhappy marriage between Soames Forsyte and the beautiful pianist Irene Heron came to an end, Soames and Irene have both remarried and moved on. Irene is happily married with a son to Jolyon Forsyte - causing Jolyon to be even further considered as an outcast and traitor by the Forsytes - and Soames to the beautiful, yet very unfaith...
《福塞特世家》改编自同名的系列长篇小说，是英国1932年的诺贝尔文学奖获得者约翰·高尔斯华绥的代表作。福塞特家族是维多利亚时代和爱德华时代的英国中上层社会中的故事。故事的两位主角是家族中的两位男性：律师Soames Forsyte和艺术家Jolyon Forsyte。以他们为主线的家族故事跨度三十年，其中充满悲欢离合
根据英国名作家约翰高尔斯华绥最著名的长篇巨著《福尔赛世家》改编，以豪华的制作品质和闪亮的星光呈现维多利亚时代的一段爱情故事。剧情描述世家子埃罗尔．弗林打破保守的家族惯例，娶了并非门当户对的钢琴老师格里尔．加森为妻。加森进门后，跟沃尔特．皮金的女儿珍妮特．利成为好友，利要求加森帮忙说服家族成员，让她可以嫁给看似为人漫不经心的建筑师罗伯特．扬，不料扬接触了加森之后，竟然喜欢上她，不再想娶利。此时弗林正好又聘请扬为他盖一幢新居，更造成加森与扬的密切接触机会。最后因为一场“绿帽疑云"的误会，两对鸳鸯各散东西。由于篇幅所限，导演坎普顿． 班尼特仿佛只能浮光掠影地交代丰富的情节，刻划主角的心理略嫌不够细腻，但演员普遍表现出色。
律师弗兰克（詹姆斯·维尔拜 James Wilby 饰）因为脚踝受伤而来到了一处偏远的小山村里修养，在那里，他邂逅了名为梅根（伊莫金·斯塔布斯 Imogen Stubbs 饰）的美丽女子。弗兰克的风趣和健谈吸引了梅根的注意，可是梅根此时已经有了未婚夫乔（杰罗姆·弗林 Jerome Flynn 饰）。
在一场剪羊毛大会上，弗兰克亦爱上了能歌善舞的梅根，然而两人的这段感情遭到了梅根家人和乔的强烈反对。虽然饱受非议，但这对爱侣还是决定尊重他们内心的选择，两人相约在镇上的火车站碰头，踏上私奔的旅途。然而，当梅根赶往火车站之时，却并没有看到弗兰克的身影，与此同时，弗兰克遇见了大学同学的妹妹，两人度过了甜蜜的三天。
