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- The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her. It was made by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV, and loosely based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy. The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 1:45 a.m. from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05 a.m. It was broadcast in the US on Masterpiece Theater starting April 30, 1989. (en)
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- Now married, Gorse feels increasingly trapped. In need of money to escape his domestic life and be with Clarice, he resorts to drastic and dangerous measures. (en)
- In September 1938, Gorse is down on his luck in Reading when he meets Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a widow and a snob, and Mr. Stimpson, a real estate broker with designs of his own on Joan. (en)
- Gorse needs money to bankroll his affair with the beautiful Clarice Manners. He steps up his seduction of Joan which arouses the suspicions of Mr Stimpson. (en)
- It's April 1939 and Gorse has fled Reading after absconding with Plumleigh-Bruce's money, which he has quickly squandered. He sets his sights on the daughter of his new employer. Mr. Stimpson keeps a watch on him. (en)
- In May 1940, Gorse, now a private, deserts his regiment. He spots his next victim, the recently widowed Alison Warren. (en)
- With Joan and Mr Stimpson trailing him, Gorse plans a desperate escape with Clarice's help. (en)
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- The Charmer (en)
- Gorse at the End (en)
- Gorse in the Middle (en)
- Gorse, the Deceiver (en)
- Gorse, the Imposter (en)
- Gorse, the Investor (en)
- Gorse, the Tempter (en)
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- The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her. It was made by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV, and loosely based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy. (en)
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- The Charmer (TV series) (en)
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