Jim Broadbent
Alfred Salteena
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Dec 26, 2003 · The Young Visiters: Directed by David Yates. With Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Lyndsey Marshal, Bill Nighy. Nine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- David Yates
- 2003-12-26
Alfred Salteena is a middle-aged ironmonger in Victorian England, prosperous but unmarried and lonely. Commuting home one day by train, he meets Ethel Monticue, a young woman with whom he instantly falls in love. Ethel is fascinated by high society and longs to mix with the aristocracy.
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The Young Visiters. Two disparate men (Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie) vie for the affections of a young woman (Lyndsey Marshal) in 19th-century England.
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- David Yates
- Comedy, Drama
- Jim Broadbent
Alfred Salteena is a slightly bumbling gentleman who meets a young lady on a train and invites her to his home in London. She comes to see society and meet young men and bothers him to go out and meet important people. They travel to see Lord Bernard where Alfred realises that he is not `high society' enough to win the beautiful social climber ...
Patrick Barlow. The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.
The Young Visiters. 2003. 2 hr 0 mins. Drama, Comedy. NR. Watchlist. Sweet, whimsical version of Daisy Ashford's novel stars Jim Broadbent as awkward Alfred Salteena, who vies with a lonely...
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. This made-for-TV British comedy begins at the turn of the century, as bumbling ironmonger Alfred Salteena (Jim Broadbent) meets a pretty girl named Ethel Monticue (Lyndsey Marshal) on a train and invites her to his London flat.
