Dickens’ classic tale of the infamous Jarndyce case which has been dragging through the courts for years, ruining lives and leaving entire families devastated. A notable plot omission in this version is the story of Caddy Jellyby and the Turveydrop family.
This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England’s corrupt legal and class systems that prey on the weak and the innocent. Esther Summerson (Suzanne Burden), a kind and level-headed young woman introduced as an orphan, is the link who knits several storylines together as a witness to injustice. – Mike Cummings, Rovi
Shown on PBS Masterpiece Theatre.
Starring Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott and Suzanne Burden.