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The Tichborne Claimant (1998)
Directed by David Yates
Overview
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer’s Bogle’s inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Length 98 minutes
Actors
Robert Pugh | John Kani | Stephen Fry | John Gielgud | Robert Hardy | Rachael Dowling | Charles Gray | James Villiers | Dudley Sutton | Paola Dionisotti | Perry Fenwick | Tom McCabe | Christopher Benjamin | Roger Hammond | John Challis | Chas Bryer | Roger May | Anita Dobson | Howard Lew Lewis | Ursula Howells | Jennifer Hennessy | Matt Wilkinson | Iain Cuthbertson | Tom Harrison | Gordon Langford Rowe | Sion Tudor Owen | Joanna Swain | Ralph Nossek | Richard Underwood | Sarah Sutcliffe | Mike Ames | Vladimir Vega | Fiona Carnegie | David Crawford