St. Ives

Story

Synopsis

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?

Director

Harry Hook

Writers

Allan Cubitt

Language

English

Country

Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ireland

Release date

1 January 1998

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jean-Marc Barr

  Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves

• 

  Miranda Richardson

  Susan Gilchrist

• 

  Chris McHallem

  Gautier

• 

  Richard E. Grant

  Major Farquhar Chevening

• 

  Anna Friel

  Flora Gilchrist

• 

  Jason Isaacs

  Alain de Keroual de Saint-Yves

• 

  Michael Gough

  Comte de Saint-Yves

• 

  Cécile Pallas

  Mathilde

• 

  Tim Dutton

  François

• 

  Vernon Dobtcheff

  Bonnefoy

• Barney Craig

  Linlithgow

• 

  Desmond Barrit

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