Day After the Fair

• Director: Anthony Simmons
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Romantic Drama, Period Film
• Themes: Servants and Employers, Class Differences
• Main Cast: Sammi Davis, Hannah Gordon
• Release Year: 1987
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

Day After the Fair is a two-part TV adaptation of Thomas Hardy's On the Western Circuit. The unhappy wife (Hannah Gordon) of a brewery owner takes pity on a lonely, pregnant serving girl (Sammi Davis). The illiterate servant prevails upon her protector to write a letter to the London man (Martyn Stanbridge) whom the servant met briefly at a carnival. Almost in spite of herself, the brewer's wife finds herself the referee in the affaires d'amour of the lower orders. Taped in England, both parts of Day After the Fair were telecast in the U.S. back to back on March 12, 1988, as a double-header attraction on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Jonathan Adams - Parnell; Veronica Clifford; Sammi Davis - Anna; Hannah Gordon - Edith; Kenneth Haigh - Arthur; Roy Holder - Jim; Anna Massey - Letty; Sophie Thursfield - Sarah

Credit

Anthony Simmons - Director, Rick Wakeman - Composer (Music Score), Kenneth MacMillan - Cinematographer, Louis Marks - Producer, Gillian Freeman - Screenwriter, Thomas Hardy - Book Author

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