Benedict Cumberbatch
Edmund Talbot
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- 1. Rites of Passage Jul 6, 2005
- 1800:- Young Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia to take up a government post, on a decrepit old ship skippered by Captain Anderson, who is hostile to Edmund until he realizes that he has important relatives. Far more admirable to Edmund are Lieutenants Summer, who has worked his way up through the ranks, and the dashing Deverel. His fellow passengers number demure ... Read all
- 2. Close Quarters Jul 13, 2005
- Tensions grow within the close confines of the ship. The safety of the increasingly dilapidated hulk is by no means assured and the situation is worsened when the foremast is damaged.
- 3. Fire Down Below Jul 20, 2005
- Edmund acts as a witness to the wedding between the injured Prettiman and Miss Granham, with flowers grown by the captain in his window boxes. Despite initial animosity towards him Edmund starts to show some admiration for the older man's liberal ideas. With the mast broken the ship is drifting perilously close to an ice-field but Benet saves the situation by pouring ... Read all
To the Ends of the Earth: With Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris, Jamie Sives, Richard McCabe. In 1812, young British aristocrat Edmund Talbot travels by ship to Australia, and learns more about himself and about life than he had ever bargained for.
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- 2005-07-06
- Drama
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Release. 6 July. ( 2005-07-06) –. 20 July 2005. ( 2005-07-20) To the Ends of the Earth is a three-part BBC television miniseries adaptation of the trilogy of novels of the same name by William Golding. It premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in July 2005, and in the United States on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre in October 2006.
- Period Drama
To the Ends of the Earth is the title given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels— Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding. Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's ...
Edmund has a sexual encounter with the comely Zenobia, travelling with her parents, but he comes to realize that they are not related at all, merely a sexual threesome. Miss Granham, travelling to take up the job of a governess, falls for the older Mr. Prettiman, whom Edmund despises as a free-thinker, though they eventually reconcile.
Mar 25, 2024 · To the Ends of the Earth Season 1 is a critically acclaimed BBC series about William Golding’s iconic novel trilogy of the same name. It is about the treacherous sea journey from England to ...
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To the Ends of the Earth: Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Maylia, Ludwig Donath. After witnessing an incident on a foreign ship off California coast, a U.S. Treasury agent aboard a Coast Guard vessel decides to further investigate the matter by following a crime trail leading to China, Egypt, Lebanon and Cuba.
Daniel Evans. Actor. David Attwood. Director. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Aristocrat Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) sails from England to Australia in the early 19th ...
