Denholm Elliott

A young woman goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up eith a charming young man, Arkie Ragan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.

Richard Chamberlain stars as an amnesiac trying to piece together fragments of his memory that reveal he's either a U.S. espionage agent or an international terrorist? Aided by Marie St. Jacques - a the kidnap victim who falls in love with her captor - the two traverse Europe trying to piece together his past while trying to escape a spy network out to assassinate this mystery man.

This stunning BBC production, starring Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliott, brings to life one of Dicken's finest works, an unflinching look at the absurdity of the legal profession, whose sole purpose seems to be lining the pockets of lawyers.