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- Release Date: 1999
- Runtime: 98 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Robert Pugh, John Kani, Stephen Fry, John Gielgud ... see all
- Director: David Yates
- Plot: 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... Read more
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Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie V
Rather than groundbreaking cinema, this is a well-made, professional film that will charm mainstream audiences if they are willing to overlook the lack of box office names.
It's an amusing, well-structured story told in an attractive and commercial style with the requisite number of laughs and a sufficiently moving and sentimental ending.
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David Yates directed this $4 million fact-based British period drama, set in Victorian England and reminiscent of The Return of Martin Guerre and Sommersby. An elderly African-American man, Andrew Bogle (John Kani), dying in a London workhouse in 1895, reflects... ... Full Article
The opening credits declare that The Tichborne Claimant is based on a true story.The Tichborne trial was apparently a cause clbre in the Victorian era, an example of an individual case which rapidly mushroomed into a national issue. ... Full Article