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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
Charles Gray | Stephen Fry | John Gielgud | David Crawford | Robert Hardy | Dudley Sutton | Roger Hammond | James Villiers | Matt Wilkinson | Robert Pugh | John Kani | Iain Cuthbertson | Perry Fenwick | Christopher Benjamin | Jennifer Hennessy | Ursula Howells | Anita Dobson | Howard Lew Lewis | Ralph Nossek | Sion Tudor Owen | Vladimir Vega | Tom Harrison | Fiona Carnegie | Rachael Dowling | Roger May | Sarah Sutcliffe | John Challis | Joanna Swain | Gordon Langford Rowe | Paola Dionisotti | Tom McCabe | Chas Bryer | Richard Underwood | Mike Ames