Cold Comfort Farm
Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel about an expensively educated young woman who is suddenly orphaned and goes to live with her eccentric relatives in the country.
Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel about an expensively educated young woman who is suddenly orphaned and goes to live with her eccentric relatives in the country. She then sets about reordering the life of the family, who have been cut off from the modern world and kept firmly in their places by her tyrannical yet terrified aunt.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Flora Poste | Kate Beckinsale |
| Mybug | Stephen Fry |
| Mrs Mary Smiling | Joanna Lumley |
| Amos Starkadder | Ian McKellen |
| Judith Starkadder | Eileen Atkins |
| Ada Doom | Sheila Burrell |
| Director | John Schlesinger |
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