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Bloodlines

Synopsis

An investigative writer, Manning, visits an old, lonely lady whom she has nicknamed 'Miss Haversham'. However, her present predicament does not concern her, she wants to know about her past - for this is Lady Lucan, wife of the missing peer Lord Lucan ('Lucky' to his friends) who to this day is still wanted for the murder of his young children's nanny. Manning also tracks down one of the policemen, Jarvis, who was heavily involved in the case. Now retired and running a pub aptly named 'The Vanishing Earl', he becomes reflective about the Lucan saga.

As Manning and Jarvis piece together the events that led to the murderous night of 7 November 1974, the story flashes back to London in the early seventies - a period when Lucan's infamous gambling addiction and carefree attitude to money was finally catching up on him. With mounting debts, his marriage in tatters, separated from his children due to custody reasons, Lucan becomes more and more desperate to solve his cash crisis. A shady money lender, Mike Maloney, enters Lucan's life. He suggests a burglary of Lucan's Belgravia home where he would keep the stolen items and Lucan could claim on the insurance.

Jarvis and Manning are getting closer and closer to the truth. Was the death of the nanny Lucan's handiwork or merely a botched burglary carried out by Mike and an accomplice?

Details

Year: 1998
Type of film: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Format: 16mm Kodak
Director: Brian Grant
Producer: Scott Millaney
Director of Photography: Witold Stok
Principal cast: Richard Lintern, Beatie Edney and Jon Finch
Screen Writer: Julia Taylor Stanley

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Film Eireann Broadlough House Tinakilly Rathnew Co. Wicklow Ireland Tel: 353 946 7673 Fax: 353 404 61117

Sales Company

Vine International Pictures Astoria House 62 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1V 7DE Tel: 020 7437 1181 Fax: 020 7494 0634 E Mail: vine@easynet.co.uk

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