Movielogr
The Fool (1990)
Directed by Christine Edzard
Overview
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples’ parties.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Derek Jacobi | Paul Brooke | Julian Firth | John Tams | Ian Targett | Paddy Ward | Jo Warne | Chris Whittingham | Rory Murray | Corin Redgrave | Sally Ashby | Brenda Bruce | Cindy Oswin | Bernard Padden | Emma Piper | John Warner | Roger Hammond | Alec Wallis | Marty Cruikshank | Cordelia Ditton | Susan Field | Graham Seed | Stanley Lloyd | Hilary Sesta | Murray Melvin | Jonathan Cecil | John Atkinson | Una Brandon-Jones | James Greene | Zoe Hicks | Brian Poyser | Norman Lumsden | Richard Clifford | Bill Wallis | Rosalind Adler | Rex Doyle | Reginald Jessup | Christine Pilgrim | Joanna Maude | Amanda Wenban | Hugh Lloyd | Frederick Treves | Ben Aris | Gregory Floy | Howard Goorney | Christopher Good | Petra Markham | Ian Lindsay | Irina Brook | Sarah Flind | Penny Bunton | Julian Bleach | Jean Murphy | Fiona McAlpine | Anne Romyn | Ann-Marie Gwatkin | James Cosmo | Terence Conoley | James Coyle | Stephen Daltry | Kit Jackson | Giles Oldershaw | David Trevena | Miriam Margolyes | Philip McGough | Iain Andrew | Mara Purcell | Eric Francis | Jack Gittings | Bill Stewart | Peter Wyatt | Ian Gelder | Joan Sims | Beth Ellis | Janet Henfrey | Merelina Kendall | Charmian May | Madeleine Moffat | Phillada Sewell | Dilys Hamlett | Maria Aitken | Laura Cox | Sally Faulkner | Tamsin Heatley | Darlene Johnson | Kristin Milward | Jane Wymark | Auriol Smith | Stratford Johns | Leon Davis | James Grant | Richard Graydon | Bruce Green | Patricia Napier | Peter Stockbridge | Richard Caldicot | Patricia Hayes | Ruth Mitchell | Jim Carter | Arthur Kelly | Tony Frey | Irene Frederick | Siobhan Nicholas | Robin Meredith | Miranda Richardson | Joanna Brookes | Nora Connolly | John Dalby | Ron Emslie | Knight Mantell | Mark Arnold | Michael Feast | Michael Hordern | Peter Bailie | Jan Lower | Pamela Moiseiwitsch | John Moore | Malcolm Mudie | Simon Slater | John McEnery | Don Henderson | Michael Andrew | Graham Fletcher-Cook | David Grahame | Kenneth McClellan | John Tordoff | Robert Terson | Nick Edmett | Michael Medwin | Raymond Brody | Ronnie Brody | Alan Ford | Mark Lambert | Stewart Permutt | Peter Waddington | Maria Charles | Rosalie Crutchley | Ewen Bremner | Ron Cook | Christopher Hancock | Jessica James | Linda Kerr Scott | David Sterne | Preston Lockwood | James Cairncross | Maurice Elliot | Richard Henry | John Fahey | David Glover | Robert Putt | David Pugh | John Harding | Chris Darwin | Christine Ellerbeck | Harry Jones | Colleen McClure | John Tramper | Nicolas Tennant | Charlie Bartle | Fred Beauman | Stephen Boyes | Johnnie Clayton | David Keyes | Dominic Geary | Philip Gunderson | Ray Martin | Terry John | Arthur Nightingale | Harry Klein | George Savvides | John Quarmby | Harry Webster | Dawn Charatan | Joan Dainty | Deddie Davies | Mark Knox | Dominic Martinez | Stephen Rashbrook | Vince Starr | Paul Wilce | Michael Mears | Cyril Cusack