Stephen Dillone Movies
- 1989
A BBC production, Christabel was one of several British TV iniseries seen during the 1988-89 season of the PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theatre. Dennis Potter adapted the teleplay from Christabel Bielenberg's autobiography The Past is Myself. Elizabeth Hurley plays Christabel, a British woman married to a German lawyer. Part One of this four-part drama begins with the wedding in 1934; the couple settles in Berlin and raises a family. Four years later, the husband (Stephen Dillon), concerned over the day-to-day outrages committed by the Nazis, plans to move out of Germany, while Christabel, utterly disinterested in politics, wavers in her commitment to her husband's plans. In part two, Christabel, living in Europe at the outbreak of the war, worries about her parents in England, while her husband joins a pro-British organization and is eventually arrested for treason. Christabel was adapted for television by Dennis Potter, better known for his surrealistic British TV serials Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillone, (more)
- 1987
This British-made TV movie stars Amanda Donohoe as an alluring, unfaithful wife. She enters into an affair with an ingenuous novelist, played by Stephen Dillon. With full Barbara Stanwyck bravura, Donohoe convinces Dillon to help her bump off her husband. Can it all be as cut-and-dried as that? Originally telecast over the BBC in 1987, Face of Trespass had its American premiere over the Arts & Entertainment Cable service on June 17, 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
