Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate's peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir Randolph's daughter, gets into a shooting competition with Lord Gilbert Hartlip; Lord Gilbert's wife carries on discreet affairs; a pamphleteer circles the estate calling for no more killing, and Sir Robert's grandson hopes to protect a wild duck he's befriended. A way of life is ending: Lord Gilbert's violation of the gentlemen's code suggests internal rot as the real world presses in.
Aharon Ipale, Ann Castle, Barry Jackson, Cheryl Campbell, Daniel Chatto, Daniel Moynihan, Dorothy Tutin, Edward Fox, Frank Windsor, Gordon Jackson, Jack May, James Mason, John Gielgud, John J Carney, Jonathan Lacey, Joris Stuyck, Judi Bowker, Lockwood West, Mia Fothergill, Patrick O'Connell, Rebecca Saire, Richard Leech, Robert Hardy, Rupert Frazer, Sar
Drama, Romance