• Director: Buzz Kulik
• Main Cast: Peter Strauss, Sam Neill
• Release Year: 1985
• Run Time: 420 minutes

Plot

Adapted from the phenomenally popular best-seller by Jeffrey Archer, the three-part, seven-hour CBS miniseries Kane & Abel is the tale of two tycoons -- one a self-made man, one born into wealth -- who both came into the world on the very same day. The illegitimate son of a Polish baron, Abel Rosnovski (Peter Strauss) is forced to fend for himself from childhood. Escaping from Siberia during WWI, Abel emigrates to America, where he builds up a multimillion-dollar hotel business. Meanwhile, Boston brahmin William Lowell Kane (Sam Neill) is carefully groomed to take his place in both society and the financial world, succeeding on both counts in the banking business. Though Abel and Kane might have become friends in any other circumstances, an accidental slight on Kane's part earns him the undying enmity of a vengeful Abel -- and thus is set in motion a tense, feud-driven power struggle that will consume both their lives for the next 25 years. Filmed on-location in Canada, England, and France, Kane & Abel originally aired from November 17 to 19, 1985. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Peter Strauss
• Sam Neill

David Dukes
Jill Eikenberry
Veronica Hamel
Ron Silver
Melissa Joan Hart - Florentyna Rosnovski (Age 7)

Credit

Charles C. Bennett - Production Designer; Mike Fash - Cinematographer; Mel Friedman - Editor; Billy Goldenberg - Composer (Music Score); David Jaquest - Art Director; Buzz Kulik - Director; Buzz Kulik - Producer; Stanley Kallis - Producer; Jud Kinberg - Executive Producer; James Galloway - Editor; Les Green - Editor; Robert W. Lenski - Screenwriter; Jeffrey Archer - Book Author; Daniel Brock - Art Director; Michael Grade - Executive Producer; Jinny Schreckinger - Executive Producer; Fern Field - Producer; Vanessa James - Art Director