PBS DISTRIBUTION RELEASES
NEW ADAPTATION OF THE CLASSIC
MYSTERY
“THE WOMAN IN WHITE”
Available on Digital
Beginning October 22
Available on DVD
November 6
Arlington,
Va. – October 23, 2018 – PBS
Distribution announces the DVD and digital release of “THE WOMAN IN WHITE”
based on the 19th century mystery novel by Wilkie Collins. This
five-part screen adaptation brings to life the secrets, mistaken identities,
surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and asylums, that made this mystery
thriller an instant success when it was published in 1868. Episodes of “THE
WOMAN IN WHITE” will be available for digital download the day after
broadcast beginning October 22, 2018
and the full series will be available on DVD ($34.99 SRP) November 6,
2018. The run time of the program is approximately 275 minutes, with five
parts.
The
program begins when Walter Hartright
(Ben Hardy, Bohemian Rhapsody), a
young drawing master, encounters a spectral woman dressed all in white on a
moonlit road on Hampstead Heath. After offering his assistance to the
strange woman, he is shocked to discover that she has just escaped from a
nearby insane asylum. The encounter draws him into a web of mystery and
deception that transforms his life forever.
Shortly
afterwards, Walter takes up a teaching position in the Cumbrian village of
Limmeridge. There, he meets his pupils – the clever, bold Marian Halcombe (Jessie
Buckley, “Taboo”), and the beautiful, sweet-natured Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall,
Where Hands Touch). Walter notices
that Laura bears an uncanny resemblance to the mysterious woman in white, who
was known to the household as Anne Catherick (also Olivia Vinall): a mentally
disabled child who grew up in the village. Over the next few months,
Walter and Laura fall deeply in love. However, she is promised in marriage to
Sir Percival Glyde (Dougray Scott, Mission:
Impossible II), a charming local Baronet with a secret he will do anything
to protect.
Soon after the wedding, Glyde’s true cruel nature begins to
emerge. Conspiring with his companion, the compelling and Machiavellian Count
Fosco, he enacts a terrible plan to access his new wife’s considerable fortune.
Marian and Walter toil to rescue Laura and expose the unscrupulous, scheming
masterminds and their twisted conspiracy.
“THE
WOMAN IN WHITE” is executive
produced by David M. Thompson of Origin Pictures and Mona Qureshi of the BBC.
The series is produced by Sarah Curtis, directed by Carl Tibbets, and was
adapted from the novel by writer, Fiona Series and distributed internationally
by Endemol Shine International. Based on what is widely considered to be among
the first mystery novels, The Woman in
White by Wilkie Collins was written in 1859 and was considered a commercial
success and cultural sensation at the time.
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THE
WOMAN IN WHITE
Street Date: November 6, 2018
Genre: Drama
Run
Time: Approximately 275 minutes on 2 discs
SRP:
DVD, $34.99
Format:
DVD, Digital
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