Drama Falling was a feature length thriller. Soon after moving to a new home in Yorkshire successful novelist Daisy Langrish meets Henry Kent a charming man who offers his services as a gardener and gradually gains her trust to eventually become her lover.
He wants marriage but she won’t agree and when he becomes angry and strikes out at her she looks into his past and finds other women who have fallen victim to his charms for their rich pickings and regretted it.
production details
UK / ITV-1 / 1×120 minute episode / Broadcast 6 March 2005
Novel: Elizabeth Jane Howard / Adaptation: Andrew Davies / Producer: Chris Parr / Director: Tristram Powell
cast
MICHAEL KITCHEN as Henry Kent
PENELOPE WILTON as Daisy Langrish
SYLVESTRA LE TOUZEL as Anna Blackstone
MALCOLM SINCLAIR as Anthony
JOANNA DAVID as Lady Carteret
PENNY DOWNIE as Hazel Kent