• 1996
  • Unrated
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Summary Story of a woman who merely wished to be a loving wife, but always had to live the life of crime. View more details

  • 1996
  • Unrated

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Daniel Craig Alex Kingston Trevyn McDowell James Bowers

All cast & crew

7.7

Details

Genres : Comedy Drama Romance

Release date : Nov 30, 1996

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : PBS

Language : English

Filming locations : Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

Production companies : WGBH Granada Television

Summary Story of a woman who merely wished to be a loving wife, but always had to live the life of crime. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Drama Romance

Release date : Nov 30, 1996

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : PBS

Language : English

Filming locations : Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

Production companies : WGBH Granada Television

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Neville Phillips in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Colin Buchanan in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Daniel Craig in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Daniel Craig in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Colin Buchanan in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Daniel Craig in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Daniel Craig in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Nicola Walker in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) Alex Kingston and Daniel Craig in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Nov 30, 1996
Episode 1
Baby Moll is sold several times ending up with gypsies. Adopted by a family whose eldest son seduces her, then she marries his brother. When he dies, she heads to London, remarries, and helps an irresponsible heir squander his fortune.
Episode 2 • Dec 01, 1996
Episode 2
Moll travels to Chatham and becomes Mrs Flanders, a rich widow. She marries a Virginian sea captain, sails to the colonies and meets her new mother-in-law. They have two children, but then Moll discovers that his mother is her mother too. She returns to England, travels to Lancashire and is introduced into society as Lady Flanders.
Episode 3 • Dec 07, 1996
Episode 3
Moll falls for a Roman Catholic and converts before marrying him. Travelling to his estate in Ireland, she finds her husband's "sister" was paid to find him a rich wife, as he is as broke as her. They part and she travels back to London, but the coach is robbed by a highway man. A fellow passenger offers to stand guard in her room for protection and becomes for financial adviser as well as her lover. Learning that his wife is a whore, she persuades him to divorce her so that they can marry. When his bank fails and the shock kills him, Moll must flee the bailiffs again and now turns to theft.
Episode 4 • Dec 08, 1996
Episode 4
Moll becomes used to her new life, until an encounter with a young girl upsets her. Her landlady suggest she team up with another girl and the pair have success as thieves and lovers, until Lucy is caught and hung. A brief venture into prostitution leads to her robbing a drunken judge, but shortly after she is caught stealing a bolt of cloth and jailed. Under sentence of death, she meets two of her former lovers and strikes a deal for transportation to Virginia.

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