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Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. [1] The novel was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933. [2]
A life-or-death mission. 1942: a Jewish man lies to avoid death, but at what cost? Adaptation of Stella Gibbonss comic novel about an expensively educated young woman who is suddenly orphaned and...
Mar 6, 2024 · Cold Comfort Farm. Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel about an expensively educated young woman who is suddenly orphaned and goes to live with her eccentric relatives in the country.
Aug 8, 2019 · The Starkadders are a supremely messy family. First, there is a curse on the farm, yet as they regularly intone, “There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm,” and leaving it is subsequently out of the question.
- Janet Mullany
Cold Comfort Farm: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
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- Comedy, Romance
- John Schlesinger
- 1996-05-10
Aug 4, 2018 · Directed by John Schlesinger, who also directed Midnight Cowboy and Marathon Man, Cold Comfort Farm was originally made for TV in the UK. According to an interview with McKellen, Schlesinger was forced to pay for the transfer from 16mm to 35mm himself in order to get it an actual theatrical release in the US.
Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 book of the same name, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell.
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