Northanger abbey - Marks, Louis (BBC Enterprices Ltd., 1990)
Based on the classic novel by Jane Austen
Parental Guidance
The setting is eighteenth century Bath, a society of decadance and deceit, into which Catherine Morland arrives burstingwith freshness, integrity and a passion for macabre Gothic novels. In a time when materialism, not love, governs marriage Catherine's head is full of fantasy and fiction, of maidens being abducted to sinister castles and heroes riding to the rescue on white horses. When the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, a dark mystery starts to unfold that makes her blood run cold. Are her fantasies coming true? What deos the sinister General Tilney want from her and will the truth destroy her chance of love...