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American Friends

6.2 95 mins Comedy   Romance   1991
Prominent Features   Mayday   Millenium   BBC   British Screen Productions   British Screen  
Director(s): Tristram Powell

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.

Casts of American Friends

Michael Palin

as Rev. Francis Ashby

Trini Alvarado

as Elinor Hartley

Connie Booth

as Caroline Hartley

Alfred Molina

as Oliver Syme

Bryan Pringle

as Haskell

Jonathan Firth

as Cable

Susan Denaker

as Mrs. Cantrell

David Calder

as Pollitt

Robert Eddison

as Rushden - The President

Simon Jones

as Anderson

Fred Pearson

as Hapgood

Ian Dunn

as Gowers

Charles McKeown

as Maynard

Roger Lloyd Pack

as Dr. Butler

John Nettleton

as Groves

Alun Armstrong

as Dr. Weeks

Sheila Reid

as Mrs. Weeks

Charles Simon

as Canon Harper

Arthur Howard

as Voe

Wensley Pithey

as Cave

Jimmy Jewel

as Ashby Senior

Jo Stone-Fewings

as Undergraduate 'King Lear'

Markus Gehrig

as Swiss Guide

Edward Rawle-Hicks

as John Weeks

Kenneth W. Caravan

as Medical Graduate(uncredited)

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