North and South, Book II (1986)
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This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book II followed the fortunes of two large families during the Civil War: the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina. As former friends Orry Maine (Patrick Swayze) and George Hazard (James Read) find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict, Orry's sweetheart Madeline (Lesley-Anne Down) is left at the mercy of her sadistic husband Justin LaMotte (David Carradine) and Orry's vixenish sister Ashton (Terri Garber), while George's amour Constance (Wendy Kilbourne) was saddled with an equally disreputable family. Though the series was top-heavy with villains, there was enough time left over for the heroes of the war, notably Abraham Lincoln (Hal Holbrook) and Ulysses S. Grant (Anthony Zerbe). First telecast over the ABC network from May 4-8 and May 11, 1986, North and South, Book II was re-telecast in a six-week block from May 13 to June 17, 1989. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Kirstie Alley - Virgilia Hazard
- Philip Casnoff - Elkanah Bent
- Lesley-Anne Down - Madeline Fabray
- Genie Francis - Brett Main
- Hal Holbrook - Abraham Lincoln
- James Read - George Hazard
- James Stewart - Miles Colbert
- Inga Swenson - Maude Hazard
- David Carradine - Justin LaMotte
- Lloyd Bridges - Jefferson Davis
- Olivia de Havilland - Mrs. Neal
- Jonathan Frakes - Stanley Hazard
- Terri Garber - Ashton Main
- Lee Horsley - Rafe Beaudeen
- Jean Simmons - Clarissa Main
- David Ogden Stiers - Congressman Sam Greene
- Anthony Zerbe - Ulysses S. Grant
- Patrick Swayze - Orry Main
- Director(s):
- Kevin Connor
- Producer(s):
- Robert A. Papazian
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