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The Round Tower (film)

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The Round Tower
GenreDrama
Based onThe Round Tower by Catherine Cookson
Written byT. R. Bowen
Directed byAlan Grint
Starring
  • Emilia Fox
  • Ben Miles
  • Jan Harvey
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes3
Production
ProducerRay Marshall
Running time150 minutes (three episodes of 50 minutes)
Production companyFestival Films for Tyne Tees Television
Original release
NetworkITV
Release9 January (1998-01-09) –
23 January 1998 (1998-01-23)

The Round Tower is a British television serial of 1998, produced by Festival Films for Tyne Tees Television, directed by Alan Grint and based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Cookson.

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In Newcastle-on-Tyne in the 1950s, Vanessa Ratcliffe (Emilia Fox) the 17-year-old convent school daughter of prosperous parents, has an affair and reveals that she is pregnant, but will not name the father. Angus Cotton (Ben Miles), the son of the Ratcliffes' housekeeper, who works as a supervisor at an engineering works owned by Jonathan Ratcliffe (Keith Barron), Vanessa's father, is wrongly blamed but is willing to take the blame. This throws the two together and leads to an ultimately happy outcome for both, including success for Cotton in business.[1][2]

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "The Round Tower", British Council, accessed 26 April 2024
  2. ^ Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2000 (2000), p. 1353
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