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Harnessing Peacocks is a film of genre Drama directed by James Cellan Jones released in USA on 28 november 1993 with Serena Scott Thomas
Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
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Add to a movie listHarnessing Peacocks is a 1993 British television film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Serena Scott Thomas, Peter Davison and John Mills. It was adapted by Andrew Davies from the 1985 novel Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley. The film won the prestigious Golden Nymph award for Best Television Film at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
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Actors
Serena Scott Thomas
(Hebe Rutter)
Peter Davison
(Jim Huxtable)
Brenda Bruce
(Amy Tremayne)
John Mills
(Bernard Quigley)
Renée Asherson
(Louisa Fox)
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