Rent Our Mutual Friend (1958)
4.3 of 5 from 3 ratings
6h 0min
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- Synopsis:
When waterman Gaffer Hexam (Julian Somers) and daughter Lizzie (Rachel Roberts) fish a battered corpse from the Thames, it is identified as that of John Harmon. Had Harmon lived, his father's will required him to marry pretty Bella Wilfer (Zena Walker). Instead, the substantial estate passes on to Mr and Mrs Boffin (Richard Pearson and Marda Vanne), a kindhearted couple who adopt Bella. The mysterious John Rokesmith (Paul Daneman) becomes their trusted secretary, and they engage one-legged schemer Silas Wegg (Esmond Knight) to entertain them with nightly readings. Lizzie Hexam is pursued by two suitors in the shape of work shy barrister Eugene Wrayburn (David McCallum) and wily Bradley Headstone (Alex Scott), and they become bitter rivals. But what of Rokesmith's true identity? And can the course of love and destiny run smooth? - Actors:
- Paul Daneman, Zena Walker, David McCallum, Richard Leech, Richard Pearson, Rachel Roberts, Basil henson, Marda Vanne, George Howe, Helena Hughes, Alex Scott, Carl Bernard, Rachel Gurney, Robert Scroggins, Charles Hodgson, Daphne Newton, Jill Dixon, Bruce Gordon, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Wilfrid Brambell
- Directors:
- Eric Tayler
- Producers:
- Douglas Allen
- Writers:
- Charles Dickens, Freda Lingstrom
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas
