Full season and episodes free online streaming fast high quality legal movies and tv television shows. Pierce brosnan wears a series of sharp suits in noble house. Noble house, a fourpart miniseries beginning on nbc at 9 p. Based on the novel noble house by james clavell, it features a large cast headlined by pierce brosnan. I had read the book so loved the story and was very pleased when the series was produced and with the casting of pierce in the leading role. Noble house,new dvd, pierce brosnan for sale online ebay. Nbcs version of james clavells 1,370page novel is diverting. This is the fourth novel of the asian saga by james clavell. One of the most prominent bond locations seen in noble house is the peninsula hotel, where casey tcholok and lincoln bartlett are staying throughout their visit in hong kong.
In the tv series noble house from 1988, starring pierce brosnan, quite a few bond locations from the man with the golden gun feature. Today, monday 24th of february, is a special day that marks the addition of noble house to the blog. Excellent cast, well written, performed and produced. However, due to time restrictions, several of the many subplots from.
Noble house unfolds in hong kong less than a decade prior to the territorys return to china a future event that plays a role despite not being a plot point in the book, which was set 25 years earlier. Hong kong business conglomerate noble house teeters on its foundations, dangerously close to collapse. To the chinese, that also makes him taipan supreme leader of the noble house. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure.
Noble house unfolds in hong kong less than a decade prior to the territorys return to china a. Based on the novel noble house by james clavell, it features a large cast headlined by pierce brosnan as business tycoon ian dunross and was directed by gary nelson. Though pierce brosnan missed out on playing james bond a year earlier, he was able to dress the part in a peakedlapel dinner suit on three occasions in the 1988 serial noble house, based on a novel by james clavell. Noble house mini series pierce brosnan 1988 aberdeen harbour, hong kong i always felt the onscreen version of four finger wu played by khigh dheigh was a bit of a wimp compared to the nasty conniving book version, but then again i guess massive parts of the book s various plots are left out for the sake of simplicity.
Noble house 2disc box set james clavells noble house. In western film and fiction, hong kong is a fabulously implausible place. The head of hong kong based corporation is plunged into international espionage and financial crises when his rival attempts a hostile takeover. Then along came my good friend thomas to the rescue and identified it as stanley bay before the redevelopment works that removed the shanty town and moved the seafront. The novel of noble house is one of the most detailed and riveting books you could.
Noble house 1988 the success of shogun in 1980 beget two further james clavell miniseries, taipan in 1986 and noble house in 1988, diminishing returns certainly, but noble house borders on incomprehensible at times because it tries to squeeze an enormous book with oodles of plots into six hours of screen time, mostly taken up by talk of finance. The noble house also is a nickname of struans, the trading company featured prominently in most of clavells novels. Pierce brosnan remington steele stars as the charismatic leader of an influential hong kong trading company in james clavells noble house the eight hour nbc miniseries based on clavells blockbuster novel about romance, intrigue and international power struggles in contemporary hong kong. Only a year after he finished remington steele, pierce brosnan played hong kong tycoon ian dunross in the 1988 television miniseries noble house. Noble house james clavells sprawling blockbuster novel of rivalry, extortion, and murder set within hong kong trading firms. Noble house miniseries wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Noble house takes a different path in its translation from book to screen, as it modifies the story to change from 1963 in the book to a then more modernday hong kong in the miniseries. Pierce brosnan stars in this riveting miniseries of rivalry, extortion and murder set in the highstakes business world of hong kong. It is a massive book, well over pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. The noble house taipan is bound by tradition to grant a favor to anyone who has the missing half of an. Drawn into the fight between gornt and dunross is an upstart american billionaire who tries to gain a foothold on the hong kong market and has made a deal to steal something that will give him power, even. Pierce brosnan and deborah raffin in noble house 1988 deborah raffin in. Historical fiction set against the backdrop of hong kong in its early years of.
As pierce brosnan celebrated 25 years with his wife, he chose to come clean about his marriage duration. In fact, i can say that its my favorite tv miniseries. Noble house is a novel by james clavell, published in 1981 and set in hong kong in 1963. Directed by brosnan pierce, starring brosnan pierce, pierce brosnan, john rhysdavies. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of hong kong the.
Ian dunross pierce brosnan is named taipan supreme leader of a powerful trading company just as a rival john rhys davies attempts a hostile takeover. As with all film or tv treatments, it is a pale shadow of the book, but it is visually interesting and tells a good story. The miniseries is adapted from the novel by james clavell, who is. Watch noble house free tv series full seasons online tubi. With enemies and fairweather friends on all sides vying for a chunk of the fallout rubble, ian dunross struan, taipan of the noble house, must somehow wheel and deal his way into at least twenty million dollars to pay off his debts and save his inheritance. The miniseries updates the storyline of the novel to the 1980s. Pierce brosnan and coactors in james clavells noble house east meets west with his son ping wu looking on, hong kong mobster four finger wu khign dhiegn, left demands a favor from powerful hong kong businessman ian dunross pierce brosnan, right in james clavells. Pierce brosnan is ian dunross, just named the taipan ceo of the.
With pierce brosnan, deborah raffin, ben masters, john rhysdavies. Noble house is a novel by james clavell, published in 1981 and set in hong kong in 1963 it is a massive book, well over pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. We get several establishing shots of the entrance and the facade throughout. The ne plus ultra of such depictions is noble house, the 1988 tv miniseries that is a dumbeddown adaptation of the james clavell novel of the same name. Brosnan plays and dresses as dunross similarly to how he plays. Pierce brosnan plays the shrewd and hot headed taipan of the noble house set in the the 1960s despite the fact the technology used is straight up late 80s nostalgia. A real treasure of a series dedicated to demonstrate the power and fragility of the trading society in hong kong during the 50s. British tycoon and hong kong taipan ian dunross delves into international espionage and the criminal underworld to fight off a hostile takover of his trading company. Dawn of hong kong i loved the tv miniseries adaptation of noble house, starring pierce brosnan, deborah raffin, john rhysdavies and ben masters. Whereas suzie wong was a sympathetic portrait of cheongsam clad prostitutes desperate to survive in the muck and poverty of hong kong, noble house is a lengthy soap opera detailing cheongsam clad dragon ladies and their wealthy husbands and boyfriends. Besides brosnan, noble house stars two other actors from the james bond series, john rhysdavies the living daylights and burt kwouk goldfinger and you only live twice. Noble house mini series pierce brosnan 1988 stanley bay, hong kong this next location initially had me completely stumped because i just could not place it anywhere.
Old tv series with pierce brosnan as ian dunross noble house. I hope noble house will do for hong kong what shogun did for japan. Pierce brosnan was too young for the role of the character in the novel, the studio managed to. Dunross worst enemy is the vicious quillan gornt, a lesser taipan, and hes doing everything in his power to bring the noble house to ruin. I have always been a pierce brosnan fan and the setting and clavells story in this case was exciting and the video showed some great views of hong kong and macao. Noble house gives us a good look at what pierce brosnan. The original story is set to take place in hong kong in 1963 but the storyline in the television series has been updated to the late 1980s. Brosnan is convincing as the man in charge of a 150 year old company who struggles to deal not just with the crises of today but with the weight of legacy of the noble house. Pierce brosnan is fascinating as ian dunross, taipan of the hong kong. Ian dunross brosnan, the new taipan of strauns international trading company a.
Highlights of a visit to hong kong would be for example an ascent of victoria peak by funicular railway from where you have a spectacular view of the whole area, or a meal in the floating restaurants at aberdeen pierce brosnan in the tvseries noble house or a trip to the outlying island of lantau with the worlds largest. Like dashing pierce brosnan, who has the starring role of ian struan dunross, the taipan head of hong kong s most important trading house the noble house of the title. Noble house tv miniseries 1988 noble house tv mini. James clavells noble house by gary nelson gary nelson. Written in 1981 but set in 1963, noble house is the flip side view of hong kong from another novel set in the colony during the late 1950s, the world of suzie wong. In the book, dunross is a slick and supremelyconfident businessman, which is. Opening credits and main title theme from the unitedstates television miniseries noble house based upon the novel by james clavell.
Brosnan is convincing as the man in charge of a 150 year old company who struggles to deal not just with the crises of today but with the weight of legacy of the noble house upon his shoulders as well. Suddenly plunged into a criminal underworld of international espionage, deception and financial crises. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for nbc, starring pierce brosnan. Noble house is a throwback to a time when tv miniseries were. Noble house, the book, was a huge success and well written. As a casting choice, pierce brosnan could not have been improved upon. Noble house, fourpart miniseries the new york times. I rate this as it is for the plot is very realistic as well as the storylines that are that detailed in more ways than one.
In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for nbc starring pierce brosnan. Pierce brosnan is fascinating as ian dunross, taipan of the hong kong company struans, the noble house of the title. Noble house pierce brosnan overview james clavells sprawling blockbuster novel of rivalry, extortion, and murder set within hong kong trading firms. In 1988 pierce brosnan starred in a tv miniseries based on a novel by james clavell called noble house. Taipan brosnan s title as noble house head man ian dunrossmeans supreme leader. James clavells blockbuster novel of rivalry, extortion, and murder comes to particularly splashy life in this 1988 nbc miniseries that is set in the highstakes business world of hong kong, where it was largely filmed. Its difficult for me to ever forget the tv miniseries noble house.
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