From the director of “Women in Love and Altered States” comes a retelling of the literary classic that launched the most celebrated obscenity trial of the 20th century. In adapting the famous tale of unbridled passion, Ken Russell has made a moving love story and some of the most talked about television of the 1990s. Joely Richardson (Return to Me, The Affair of the Necklace) stars as the young, sexually repressed Lady Chatterley, whose paralyzed husband (James Wilby, Gosford Park) urges her to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man. Sean Bean (Patriot Games, The Lord of the Rings) is the lowly gamekeeper whose scandalous attentions awaken her senses.
The BBC television serial was first broadcast on BBC One in four 55-minute episodes. The period drama is based on the DH Lawrence novel.
Those who believe British miniseries to be too proper and corseted may want to make an exception for Ken Russell’s 1992, four-hour BBC adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s scandalous novel. –
Starring Hetty Baynes, Sean Bean, Brian Blessed, Simon Chamberlain, Gary Crosby.