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Drama / Romance

The Wings of the Dove

A couple with everything but money. An heiress with everything but love. A temptation no one could resist.

19971h 42mR 6.5/ 10

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

Cast

  • Helena Bonham CarterKate Croy
  • Linus RoacheMerton Densher
  • Alison ElliottMillie Theale
  • Elizabeth McGovernSusan Stringham
  • Charlotte RamplingAunt Maude
  • Alex JenningsLord Mark
  • Michael GambonLionel Croy
  • Ben MilesJournalist 1
  • Philip WrightJournalist 2
  • Diana KentMerton's Party Companion
  • A
    Alexander JohnButler
  • S
    Shirley ChantrellOpium Den Lady
  • Mark ChapmanRoyal Bodyguard (uncredited)

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