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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.
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Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
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В большой семье Барретов, проживающей на Уимпол-стрит в Лондоне, главный - отец. Он не позволяет никому из своих детей даже думать о браке. Особенно он печется о своей старшей дочери - известной поэтессе Элизабет, прикованной к инвалидному креслу. Но находится смельчак по имени Роберт Браунинг, которого не смущает болезнь девушки, и он предлагает ей руку и сердце. Отец пытается сделать все, чтобы брак не состоялся.
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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.
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A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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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.
