Information
- BFI identifier347109
- Date1991 (Copyright)
1991-03-22 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisBased on the diaries of Michael Palin's great grandfather, the Rev. Edward Palin, an Oxford don who fell in love with an American girl of 17 while on a walking holiday in Switzerland. In 1866 he married her, gave up his career and ended up with 7 children. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Tristram Powell
©: National Film Trustee Company Ltd
Production Company: Millennium Films
view all - CastMichael Palin (Reverend Francis Ashby)
Trini Alvarado (Miss Elinor Hartley)
Connie Booth (Miss Caroline Hartley)
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Title
American Friends (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/A065-AE3A-85EE-5550-0C00-PCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-347109
American Friends - Contains material relating to 'American Friends' including a continuity script across two volumes. - PEY-14
Small pressbook held. Information folder held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-wan
Photograph: transparency - SPD-163351
Photograph: transparency - SPD-163354
Photograph: transparency - SPD-163355
Photograph: transparency - SPD-163356
view all - ArticlesEmpire n23 May 1991 - ReviewSight and Sound v59 n4 Autumn 1990 - Location ReportScreen International n762 23 Jun 1990 - Creditsview all
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Work - 347109 - 1991 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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