Apr 5th
The Clandestine Marriage*
GB 1999. Portman/BBC Films/Gunner and Stables Group/Milesian Films/Stanway Films. 90m.

The eccentric Lord Ogleby spends a weekend at a mansion intending to marry off his son to one of the daughters of the house, but the son has eyes for another who has secretly married the footman...
Good looking adaptation of an old Regency farce with some of the stars overplaying their material and others fitting into the scenario quite well.

Written by: Trevor Bentham, from the play by George Coleman the elder, David Garrick.
Producers: Steve Clark-Hall, Rod Gunner, Jonathan B. Stables.
Director: Christopher Miles.
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Paul Nicholls, Natasha Little, Tom Hollander, Emma Chambers, Cyril Shaps, Ray Fearon, Mark Burns, Hugh Lloyd, Timothy Bateson.
Photography: Denis Crossan.
Music: Stanislav Syrewicz.