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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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David Attwood
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Actors:
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Neville Phillips,
Geoffrey Beevers,
Chrissie Cotterill,
Peter Jonfield,
Lucy Evans,
Struan Rodger,
James Bowers,
Nicola Kingston,
Anthony Bessick,
Alex Kingston
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Duration:
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54 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)61
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Plot Summary:
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In her foul stall in Newgate prison Moll Flanders,dubbed 'the wickedest housekeeper in England' tells her feature.Born in the gaol, after her mother is transported Moll is raised alongside the kindly mayor of Colchester and his chain, whose two sons avidity after her. She enjoys mating with goodly Rowland, who teaches her that bread talks, but, realizing he just wants her as a mistress, she marries his duller brother Robin, who conveniently dies after five years, leaving her prosperous. She goes to London, in short session highwayman Jemmy Seagrove, and marries parvenu draper Daniel Dawkins, ... but he has huge debts and must flee to France, leaving Moll without equal and poor. Moll meets considerable young American sea captain Lemuel Golightly, who marries her and takes her to Virginia and a proper living form, along with his mother. They deliver two children and are blissfully happy until Moll discovers her baby-in-law is also her line mother. She has married her own pal. She returns to England and poses as on Easy Street widow Lady Flanders, being proposed to nearby James Seagrove, who has land in Ireland. Jemmy Seagrove turns out to be a penniless happenstance circumstances-seeker like Moll but there is get a kick from on both sides. He leaves her to take up again enthusiasm as a highwayman but says he will return for the treatment of her.On a coach to London - which Jemmy robs but secretly gives Moll the other victims' goods - she meets preservative banker Mr. Plain vanilla, who becomes her next spouse but dies of shock when he learns he has been financially ruined. Moll is left poor and just again and resorts to crime. Moll moves in with landlady Mrs. Riordan, a robbers' dodge ,along with fellow thief Jenny Diver, whom she initially meets after stealing the hack off Jenny has secret. The two women steal - and again sleep - together but Jenny is caught and hanged. Moll is depressed and honest seems remorseful after stooping to rook out of a little girl. She takes to rolling rich drunken lechers at the histrionics, including Sir Richard Godfrey, who is much enchanted past her, but she is caught and sentenced to the gallows. In Newgate she sees Jemmy, who has also been captured and whose fate is transportation. Moll prepares to meet her eradication but Jemmy arrives at the gibbet, having 'persuaded' Sir Richard to commute her ruling to transportation. They sail to America together, to see her relatives again.
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