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Laurence Olivier tells the story of the outcasts in this adaptation of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, first published in Overland Monthly in 1868. In the second of his tales of the Californian gold rush, Poker Flat is a mining settlement in a downward spiral.

In this adaptation of Henry James’ tale of the corrupting power of old Europe, Ralph Richardson plays the author himself and his four meetings with Miss Caroline Spencer.

In this adaptation of Henry James’ study of deceit, Ralph Richardson stars as Oliver Lyon, a portrait painter visiting a country house in Hertfordshire.

The Black Mate was Joseph Conrad’s very first piece of fiction, written in 1886 but not published until 1908. It was then published again posthumously in 1925 in Tales of Hearsay. The Black Mate is Mr. Bunter, mate of the sailing vessel “Sapphire” and it is his striking black hair that gives him his nickname.