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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?Read moreLess
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?
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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?
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Jean-Marc BarrCaptain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
Miranda RichardsonSusan Gilchrist
Chris McHallemGautier
Richard E. GrantMajor Farquhar Chevening
Anna FrielFlora Gilchrist
Jason IsaacsAlain de Keroual de Saint-Yves
Michael GoughComte de Saint-Yves
Cécile PallasMathilde
Tim DuttonFrançois
Vernon DobtcheffBonnefoy
Desmond BarritBiggerstaffExplore the crew
- Director
- Harry Hook
- Writer
- Allan Cubitt
- Producer
- Jonathan Cavendish
- Producer
- T. Celal
- Producer
- Jean Labib
- Producer
- James Mitchell
- Producer
- Martha O'Neill
- Producer
- Christine Ruppert
- Original Music Composer
- John E. Keane
- Director of Photography
- Robert Alazraki
- Editor
- John MacDonnell