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Suchet in title role of 大象传媒 Two's drama special Maxwell
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Award-winning actor David Suchet is to play Robert Maxwell in a one off drama
special for 大象传媒 Two.
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Maxwell tells the story of the dramatic final months of the
media tycoon's life.
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Patricia Hodge plays his beleaguered wife Betty, with
Daniela Denby-Ashe as his secretary.
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Maxwell's world is collapsing. Cracks are appearing in his multi-billion
business empire, his marriage is in difficulties and his weight has ballooned
dangerously.
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He owns some of the world's best known media companies - Macmillan Publishing;
the New York Daily News and the Daily Mirror.
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But his obsession with both
power and his great rival, Rupert Murdoch, is causing his downfall.
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With time running out he retreats to the heart of his web and sets about saving
his skin. He is trapped and paranoid.
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His attempts to stem the tide of debts
culminate in him stealing a billion pounds from his companies and their pension
funds.
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But he is still hurtling towards disaster and, ultimately, death.
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Maxwell is a gripping account of how greed and ambition destroyed a man and led
him to commit one of the world's biggest ever frauds.
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It also stars Ben Caplan as Maxwell's son Kevin and Dan Stevens as Basil
Brookes.
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The film is written by Craig Warner, who was Bafta-nominated for The Queen's
Sister.
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The 90-minute dramatisation is produced and directed by Colin Barr, who
made The Secretary Who Stole 拢4million and The Lavender List.
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Executive
producers are Nick Mirsky (The Armstrongs) and Hilary Salmon (Five Days). 听
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