To The Ends Of The Earth

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3 part TV adaptation of William Golding's historical nautical drama

Synopsis

A perilous early nineteenth-century ocean voyage from England to Australia is portrayed in all its excitement, chaos, and random horror in a three-part adaptation of To the Ends of the Earth, based on the trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. Edmund Talbot is a young aristocrat bound for Australia. He books passage aboard an aging, leaking, converted man-of-war, commanded with icy detachment by Captain Anderson

The passenger list includes a core sample of British society including Mr. Prettiman, a free thinking radical; Miss Granham, a down-on-her-luck governess; Parson Colley, a hapless cleric; Mr. Brocklebank, a dissipated nautical artist; and Zenobia, Mr. Brocklebank's sensuous "daughter." The ship's crew forms its own community: Wheeler, a steadfast steward with a fear of drowning; 1st Lieutenant Summers, who becomes a friend and mentor to Edmund; and Lieutenants Deverel and Benét -- a matched pair of vain officers (PBS)

JJ Feild role

Lieutenant Deverel

Release dates

UK: 6 - 20 July 2005

US: 22 Oct - 5 Nov 2006

DVD available on Amazon

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