Persuasion
(Video) 

"Distributed under exclusive licence from Granada Television International."

Originally broadcast on television in 1971.

Also issued as part of The Jane Austen collection.

Film cameraman, David Wood ; film editor, Stan Challis ; costume designer, Esther Dean ; researcher, Vivien Pottersman ; graphics, Mark Hall ; dances arranged by Litz Pisk ; musical arranger, Steven Hancock ; designed by Peter Phillips.

Ann Firbank, Bryan Marshall, Basil Dignam, Valerie Gearon, Marian Spencer, Georgine Anderson, Richard Vernon, Morag Hood, Rowland Davies, Mel Martin, Zhivila Roche, Noel Dyson, William Kendall, Charlotte Mitchell, David Savile, Helen Ryan, Michael Culver, Robert Sansom, Paul Chapman, Ernest Hare, Paul Alexander, Gabrielle Daye, Polly Murch, Beatrix Mackey, Angela Galbraith, Gerry Cowan, Joseph Berry, Walter Horsbrugh, Roger Williamson, Judith Barker, Liz Goulding, Edward Jewesbury.

When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, has been forced to lease their home and move the family into a rather small abode in Bath. Just as Anne now recognizes the false values that persuaded her to reject Captain Wentworth, so she must accept that his heart now seems set upon the youth and beauty of the impetuous Louisa Musgrove.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.