Cold Comfort Farm Movie Review 1971

The original BBC production of Stella Gibbon's satiric novel. Orphaned London sophisticate Flora Poste (Badel) is forced to rely on the kindness of her dotty country cousins, the Starkadders, when she needs somewhere to live. But Flora is determined to set things right with the peculiar clan.

Distribution

PBS Home Video, Catalog Fulfillment Center, PO Box 751089, Charlotte, NC 28275-1089, Phone: (800)531-4727, Toll-free: 800-645-4PBS, Email: info@pbs.org, URL: http://www.pbs.org

Available on VHS
Running time 135 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Farm Livin', Great Britain, Period Piece: 1920s, Family Comedy

Screenplay

David Turner

Cast

Sarah Badel, Brian Blessed, Fay Compton, Rosalie Crutchley, Alastair Sim, Peter Egan, Fionnula Flanagan, Freddie Jones, Sharon Gurney

Director

Peter Hammond

Producer

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)