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Persuasion (1960)

Persuasion poster
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Anne Elliot reconnects with the man she was once persuaded to reject. Their paths cross again years later, stirring old feelings and unresolved tensions.

historicalromanticmelancholicslow-burngentlenostalgicunderstatedclassic

What happens

Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the 1817 Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed by Campbell Logan. Daphne Slater stars as Anne Elliot, and Paul Daneman as Captain Frederick Wentworth. The mini-series has four episodes, each half an hour in length. According to shmoop.com, this mini-series was most likely wiped in the BBC clean-out of the 1970s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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