Rudolph Besier

Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.

En la Inglaterra victoriana del siglo XIX, la joven poetisa Elizabeth Barret vive recluida en su casa bajo el estricto control de un padre tiránico. Sus desgracias se ven recompensadas cuando se enamora del poeta Robert Browning... Remake de un film de mismo título de 1934 con Norma Shearer y Charles Laughton.

Edward Moulton-Barrett, un terrateniente muy fanático en materia religiosa, mantiene casi recluidas en casa a sus tres hijas, a las que, además, ha prohibido contraer matrimonio. Elizabeth, la mediana, una prometedora poetisa enferma de tuberculosis, y el poeta Robert Browning (March), con el que hace tiempo mantiene una correspondencia epistolar, se conocen y se enamoran, pero tendrán que vencer la tiranía del padre.

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.

An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.