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North and South
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Genre Historical fiction
Created by David 50. Wolper
Based on North and South (trilogy)
past John Jakes
Story by John Jakes
Starring
  • James Read
  • Patrick Swayze
  • Lesley-Anne Down
  • Wendy Kilbourne
  • Kirstie Alley
  • Jean Simmons
  • Mitchell Ryan
  • Terri Garber
  • Genie Francis
  • Kyle Chandler
  • David Ogden Stiers
  • David Carradine
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Hal Holbrook
Theme music composer Bill Conti
State of origin Us
Original linguistic communication English
No. of episodes
  • Volume I: 6
  • Book II: half dozen
  • Volume 3: three
Production
Producer Paul Freeman
Cinematography Stevan Larner, ASC
Running time ninety minutes/episode
1,342 mins. total
Production companies David L. Wolper Productions
Warner Bros. Television
Release
Original network ABC
Motion-picture show format NTSC
Audio format Book I & Book 2: Mono
Book Three: Stereo
Original release Nov three, 1985 (1985-11-03) –
March 2, 1994 (1994-03-02)

North and South is the title of iii American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set earlier, during, and immediately afterward the American Civil State of war, they are based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and Southward by John Jakes.[1] The 1985 start installment, North and Due south, remains the seventh-highest rated miniseries in TV history.[ii] [iii] [iv] North and South: Book Ii (1986) was met with similar success, while 1994'south Sky and Hell: Northward and South Book Iii was poorly received past both critics and audiences.[five] [vi]

The saga tells the story of the indelible friendship betwixt Orry Main of South Carolina (Patrick Swayze) and George Chance of Pennsylvania (James Read), who become best friends while attending the The states Military University at W Point simply afterward discover themselves and their families on opposite sides of the war.[one] The slave-owning Mains are rural planters from outside Charleston, S Carolina, while the Hazards, who reside in a pocket-sized Pennsylvania mill town, profit from ownership of iron manufacturing and industry uppercase, their differences reflecting the divisions between North and South that eventually led to the Civil State of war.[7]

Cast [edit]

The initial 1985 miniseries bandage Patrick Swayze every bit Orry Main and James Read as George Run a risk with Lesley-Anne Downwardly every bit Orry'due south dearest interest Madeline and Wendy Kilbourne as George's time to come wife Constance.[8] Kirstie Alley played George's outspoken abolitionist sister Virgilia, with Genie Francis every bit Orry'south "good" sister Brett and Terri Garber as his selfish and wicked sister Ashton, too as Philip Casnoff every bit Elkanah Bent, George and Orry'south nemesis.[8] All of these actors returned for the 1986 sequel, and the roles of George's brother Baton Adventure and sis-in-law Isabel Hazard were recast with Parker Stevenson and Mary Crosby.[ix] [10]

North and South (1985) also featured many well-known actors equally invitee stars, including Elizabeth Taylor as bordello proprietor Madam Conti, David Carradine as the sadistic Justin LaMotte, Hal Holbrook as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Gene Kelly as Bent's father Senator Charles Edwards, Robert Mitchum as Colonel Patrick Flynn, M.D., Johnny Greenbacks every bit abolitionist John Brown, Jean Simmons as Orry'south mother Clarissa Main, Mitchell Ryan as Orry's father Tillet Chief, John Anderson as George'south father William Take a chance, Jonathan Frakes as George's older brother Stanley Hazard, Inga Swenson as George'due south mother Maude Hazard, Robert Guillaume equally abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Morgan Fairchild as Burdetta Halloran, David Ogden Stiers as Representative Sam Greene, and Olivia Cole as Madeline'due south devoted merely doomed servant Maum Sally.[8] John Jakes' wife Rachel besides fabricated an advent in Episode 6 equally Lincoln'southward wife Mary. Due north and South: Book II (1986) saw the return of Carradine as LaMotte, Holbrook every bit Lincoln, and Stiers as Greene, as well as new guests Lloyd Bridges as Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Anthony Zerbe as Ulysses S. Grant, Nancy Marchand equally Dorothea Dix, James Stewart as Miles Colbert, Wayne Newton as Helm Thomas Turner, and William Schallert as Robert Due east. Lee,[9] with Linda Evans as Rose Sinclair and Olivia de Havilland as Mrs. Neal. 1994's Heaven and Hell featured Peter O'Toole as "louche actor" Sam Trump[xi] and Billy Dee Williams as Francis Cardozo.

Filming of the miniseries resulted in 4 marriages among the cast and crew. Read and Kilbourne, who played opposite each other, married in 1988 and now have two children. Frakes and Francis, who had previously played contrary each other on the failed NBC soap Bare Essence, also married in 1988. Lesley-Anne Downwardly married banana cameraman Don E. FauntLeRoy in 1986. They met during filming of Book I when both were married to other people, and eventually obtained divorces.[12] Garber married screenwriter Chris Hager, whom she met in 1985 when he worked as a grip on the ready of North and S: Volume II. They had a daughter, Molly, in 1986, and later divorced.[13]

Graphic symbol North and S
1985
Due north and South: Book II
1986
Heaven and Hell:
North and S Volume 3

1994
Orry Master Patrick Swayze Patrick Swayze (archive/uncredited)
George Hazard James Read
Madeline Fabray Lesley-Anne Down
Constance Flynn Wendy Kilbourne
Virgilia Run a risk Kirstie Alley
Ashton Main
   Young Ashton
   Young Ashton
Terri Garber
Temi Epstein (Ep. ane)
Stephanie Jolluck (Ep. 2)
Terri Garber Terri Garber
Brett Main
   Young Brett
   Immature Brett
Genie Francis
Nikki Creswell (Ep. 1)
Melissa Manley (Ep. 2)
Genie Francis Genie Francis
Elkanah Bent Philip Casnoff
Charles Main Lewis Smith Kyle Chandler
Baton Hazard
   Young Baton
John Stockwell
Cary Guffey (Ep. ane)
Parker Stevenson
Stanley Hazard Jonathan Frakes
Isabel Truscott Hazard Wendy Fulton Mary Crosby Deborah Rush
Justin LaMotte David Carradine
Clarissa Gault Master Jean Simmons
Maude Hazard Inga Swenson
Burdetta Halloran Morgan Fairchild
Representative Sam Greene David Ogden Stiers
James Huntoon Jim Metzler
Salem Jones Tony Frank
Priam David Harris
Semiramis Erica Gimpel
Cuffey Woods Whitaker
Ned Fisk Andrew Stahl
Maum Sally Olivia Cole
Madam Conti Elizabeth Taylor
Garrison Grady Georg Stanford Brown
Tillet Master Mitchell Ryan
William Chance John Anderson
Ironworker Ray Spruell
Barman Ronnie Stutes
Augusta Barclay Kate McNeil
Rafe Baudeen Lee Horsley
Miles Colbert James Stewart
Mrs. Neal Olivia de Havilland
Rose Sinclair Linda Evans
Helm Thomas Turner Wayne Newton
Ezra Boyfriend Billingslea
Lt. Rudy Bodford Michael Dudikoff
Lt. Stephen Kent Whip Hubley
Hope Hazard uncredited Jennifer and Michele Steffin Mary Elizabeth McCae
Sam Trump Peter O'Toole
Willa Parker Rya Kihlstedt
Prudence Chaffee Mariette Hartley
Adolphus Rip Torn
Cooper Master Robert Wagner
Judith Stafford Master Cathy Lee Crosby
Will Fenway Tom Noonan
Gus Main uncredited Cameron Finley
Scar Gregory Zaragoza
Running Wolf Ted Thin Elk
Gettys LaMotte Cliff De Young
Jack Quinlan Woody Watson
Isaac Stan Shaw
Jane Sharon Washington
Historical figures
Person Volume I
1985
Volume Two
1986
Book III
1994
Abraham Lincoln Hal Holbrook
Mary Todd Lincoln Rachel Jakes (uncredited)
Ulysses South. Grant Mark Moses Anthony Zerbe Rutherford Cravens
Frederick Douglass Robert Guillaume
John Brown Johnny Cash
George B. McClellan Chris Douridas
George Pickett Cody W. Hampton
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson William Preston Daly
Major Anderson James Rebhorn
Gerrit Smith Ralph Footstep
Hiram Berdan Kurtwood Smith
Jefferson Davis Lloyd Bridges
Robert Due east. Lee William Schallert
Dorothea Dix Nancy Marchand
Philip H. Sheridan Clu Gulager
Winfield Scott Lee Anthony
William T. Sherman Arlen Dean Snyder
Wade Hampton Ray Stricklyn
John Due south. Mosby Robert Ward
George Armstrong Custer Andy Garringer
Francis Cardozo Billy Dee Williams

Crew [edit]

Northward and Southward (1985) was directed by Richard T. Heffron, from a script adaptation by Patricia Green, Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, and Kathleen A. Shelley. It was produced by David L. Wolper, Paul Freeman, Rob Harland, and Chuck McLain, with music by Bill Conti and Stevan Larner as cinematographer. Wolper also produced 1986'due south N and S: Volume II with his son Mark Wolper, as well equally Stephanie Austin and Robert Papazian. Conti returned as composer, with Kevin Connor directing, Jacques R. Marquette as cinematographer, and a script by Heyes and Richard Fielder. Heaven and Hell: Northward and South Book III (1994) was directed past Larry Peerce from a script by Suzanne Clauser. Hal Galli produced the miniseries, with music by David Bell and Don E. FauntLeRoy as cinematographer.

Plot [edit]

Book I: North and S [edit]

  • Episode 1 (summer 1842 – summer 1844) – Immature Southerner Orry Chief, the second born son of a wealthy S Carolina plantation owner, decides to go to Due west Point. On his style to the railroad train station, he rescues and falls in love with the beautiful French-Creole southern belle from New Orleans, Madeline Fabray. In New York Urban center, Orry meets Northerner George Hazard, the 2nd son of a wealthy Pennsylvania steel-factory owner, who is likewise on his way to Westward Bespeak. They rapidly become shut friends. At the Academy, they meet classmates George Pickett, George McClellan, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and a senior pupil named Ulysses Grant. They also meet the amoral egomaniac Elkanah Bent, a beau cadet from Georgia. Bent is a handsome, smooth-talking human being who hides his evil, twisted nature below his charm and skillful looks. He takes an instant dislike to Orry and George and uses his condition as their drillmaster to constantly harass them. Orry constantly writes letters to Madeline, although it seems that she has not been responding to him. Afterward two years of grooming, the men render domicile for a summer leave. George's sister, Virgilia, is a passionate abolitionist and immediately takes a dislike to Orry when she finds out that his family keeps slaves. While at home, Orry is devastated to acquire that Madeline is marrying his brutal neighbor, plantation owner Justin LaMotte. Orry has an argument with his begetter over the hiring of the brutal and sadistic Salem Jones as the plantation's overseer. Orry stops Jones from using a bullwhip to "punish" one of the slaves, sparking a tense relationship between the two. After Orry witnesses Madeline's union, they privately speak to each other afterwards and observe out that Madeline'southward father has been hiding Orry's letters to ensure that she would marry Justin. That night, Justin hits and rapes Madeline, leaving her cleaved.
  • Episode two (autumn 1844 – spring 1848) – Aptitude continues his cruelty towards George, Orry, and their friends. The men, with some assist from other cadets, arrange for Bent to exist caught with a prostitute and he is forced to leave the Academy. When Aptitude learns that Orry and George were involved, he vows revenge. George and Orry graduate from West Betoken 2 years subsequently. They leave to fight in the Mexican State of war. During the Battle of Churubusco, Bent, who has blackmailed his father (Bent is an illegitimate son of a US senator) in lodge to obtain a superior rank, orders George and Orry to lead a suicidal charge against the Mexican forces. Both men survive, only Orry is shot in his left leg and permanently crippled. Meanwhile, George meets Constance Flynn, the Irish Catholic girl of an Ground forces surgeon, and falls in dear. They plan to ally. Orry drowns his sorrows in alcoholism. With the Mexican War over, George quits the ground forces, finds Aptitude, and beats him, threatening to impale him if he ever tries to harm him or Orry again. Traumatized by his injuries, Orry temporarily becomes a recluse. When Madeline helps Priam, 1 of Orry's slaves, escape, one of the other slaves gets whipped for helping Priam.
  • Episode three (spring 1848 – summer 1854) George marries Constance and Orry is his best human. Orry and Madeline become undercover lovers. A terrible fire erupts at Gamble Iron and kills many of the workers due to George's older brother, Stanley, making a greedy decision. All authority over Take chances Atomic number 26 is handed to George, greatly displeasing Stanley and his married woman, Isabel. Orry'south father dies five years later, leaving Orry to inherit the family unit plantation. His first deed is to burn the brutal Salem Jones as overseer. Jones vows revenge. Orry's cousin Charles, who does not have good relations with the Main family, is challenged to a pistol duel in a dispute over an engaged woman. Orry, as Charles' second, begrudgingly helps Charles to survive the duel and they become shut. The Mains visit the Hazards in Pennsylvania. Baton and Charles plan to nourish West Point together, only equally Orry and George did. Orry's sis Ashton purposely courts George's younger blood brother Billy, whom Brett has come to fancy. Orry and George brainstorm a partnership cotton fiber mill at Orry's plantation in South Carolina; they do and so on George's condition that Orry not utilise slave labor in the mill. Virgilia is furious that her family has immune slave owners into their house and tries to humiliate them, angering the residue of her family.
  • Episode 4 (summertime 1854 – autumn 1856) – The Hazards visit the Mains in South Carolina. Baton discovers how selfish and seductive Ashton can be and falls in love with Ashton's younger and kinder sister, Brett, much to Ashton's jealousy. George's sister Virgilia enters a passionate relationship with Grady, the proud and aggressive coachman of James Huntoon, an ambitious but hands manipulated S Carolina politician, who is as well a strong suitor of Ashton, and helps Grady escape from slavery. Ashton, yet, becomes aware of Virgilia's involvement and informs James, too every bit announcing it in the Adventure family'south presence. On his deathbed, Madeline's father tells her that her maternal cracking-grandmother was black. Billy and Charles graduate from Westward Indicate, and both families attend the graduation. Ashton sleeps with many of Baton'southward friends, even so biting over his rejection and attraction to Brett, which Charles is furious to discover, merely keeps hugger-mugger for the family's sake. Ashton gets pregnant and begs Madeline for assistance, who takes her to a local midwife to perform a secret abortion. When Madeline lies to Justin nearly where she was when she was away helping Ashton, he beats Madeline, locks her in a spare bedroom to starve, and kills Maum Sally for trying to help Madeline escape.
  • Episode 5 (spring 1857 – November 1860) – Madeline is drugged by Justin into becoming robotic and submissive and disappears from society, fifty-fifty forgetting her honey for Orry. Ashton marries James Huntoon, though she doesn't plan on existence a committed wife. Elkanah Bent befriends James Huntoon, and subtly interrogates him at a brothel about the people in his wedding picture, including Orry, Ashton, and Madeline. Aptitude recognizes the resemblance between Madeline and the painting of a former popular prostitute that worked in that location. Orry visits George, only Virgilia's views cause a serious argument to ensue over the issue of slavery. Orry does not want Brett to marry Billy because of the growing tensions between the North and South. Virgilia and Grady both bring together abolitionist leader John Brown. In 1859, Brown makes his famous raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, to arm and costless the slaves at that place. The U.S. Army stops the raid, Virgilia's married man Grady and Priam are killed, and Brown is captured. Virgilia escapes, just is more bitter than always towards Southerners. Abraham Lincoln is elected president; several Southern states make plans to secede from the U.South. and plant themselves as a separate nation.
  • Episode 6 (November 6, 1860 – April 1861) – Having argued with Orry, now a bitter drunk, Brett has fled to Ashton'due south house in Charleston and runs into Baton, who is stationed at Fort Sumter. Ashton, however, still holds a grudge against Billy and conspires with Justin's nephew and her lover, Forbes LaMotte, to harm them both. George visits Orry and the two apologize to each other after years of estrangement. Orry gives Brett his blessing to marry Billy. South Carolina secedes from the Marriage, infuriating Orry. Ashton schemes to take Billy killed, partly out of jealousy, and partly because Billy is now a "Yankee" enemy in the eyes of the South. She fails, however, due to a drugged Madeline, who overhears Justin and Forbes discussing it. Her memories come up dorsum and she runs to inform Orry later slashing Justin's left eye with a sword, blinding and scarring him in the process. Afterwards stopping Baton and Brett on their way to the train station, Forbes provokes Billy into a rigged pistol duel, which turns into a total-fledged fight after Charles arrives, resulting in Forbes' death. Orry is enraged at Ashton for her part in trying to destroy the new friendship between the two families with the Hazards as in-laws through Billy and disowns her, with her vowing revenge, seeing Orry as a traitor to the new Confederacy because of his friendship with the "Yankee" Hazards. Justin comes looking for Madeline, as she has taken refuge with Orry at Mont Royal, but is forced to go out with a warning. Now off the drugs and with her memories returned, Madeline plans to divorce Justin and marry Orry. Orry visits the Run a risk mansion about Philadelphia to give George his part of their cotton fiber manufacturing plant money. When he arrives, Orry discovers that George and Constance now have a infant daughter named Hope. Virgilia finds out that Orry is present and tries to have him killed past forming a lynch mob which threatens the Hazard estate; the mob's leaders need that George mitt Orry over to them, leaving picayune doubt that their intentions are to kill him. George and Orry face off confronting the mob with shotguns and manage to bulldoze them off. In the backwash, Virgilia, feeling her family will never truly understand who she actually is, leaves the Run a risk mansion, despite Constance's pleas for her to stay. Orry boards a railroad train to return to Southward Carolina. The 2 friends part, unsure if they will ever see each other again. The Civil War begins.

Book Ii: Dear and War [edit]

  • Episode ane (June 1861 – July 21, 1861) – Orry and Charles, at present officers in the Confederate Regular army, leave the Chief family plantation for the state of war in Virginia. Orry, despite having been against secession, becomes a general and military aide to Amalgamated President Jefferson Davis in the Amalgamated capital letter of Richmond. Meanwhile, George and Billy are in Washington, D.C., where they are officers in the U.S. Army. Billy joins the U.S. Sharpshooters regiment, while George becomes a military adjutant to U.South. President Abraham Lincoln. Charles, a Confederate cavalry officeholder, meets Augusta Barclay, a Virginia belle who smuggles medicine for the southern soldiers. Virgilia wants to work equally a nurse at a Washington, D.C. military infirmary and asks Congressman Sam Greene, a young man abolitionist, for help. Orry'due south cruel and manipulative sister Ashton meets her match in Elkanah Aptitude, who sees the Ceremonious War as a great mode to become rich by smuggling forbidden luxury goods through the U.S. Navy blockade of the South. Bent and Ashton quickly become lovers, while Ashton'south politico hubby, James Huntoon, is unaware of his wife's infidelity. With Orry and Charles gone to war, Justin kidnaps Madeline from the Master family plantation and burns the cotton barn; Orry'south mother is injured trying to stop the burn. The Starting time Battle of Bull Run takes place with George and Constance getting caught up in the panicked aftermath equally they reluctantly lookout from a altitude. The South is the winner.
  • Episode 2 (July 1861 – summer 1862) – Hearing about her mother's injury, Brett and one of the Main household servants, Semiramis, make the unsafe trip from Washington, D.C. to the Master plantation in South Carolina. Along the mode, Semiramis is captured by Union soldiers, just rescued past Brett. Orry leaves Richmond and returns to South Carolina as well; he finds Madeline at Justin'due south plantation and kills Justin in a fight. Orry and Madeline finally go married. Orry discovers Aptitude's illegal smuggling enterprise and stops it by capturing Bent's blockade runners, arresting his men, and destroying nigh of his merchandise. Bent and Ashton vow revenge. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, George's older blood brother Stanley takes over the family'southward steel factories. His greedy wife Isabel talks him into profiteering from the war by using cheap, low-grade iron to make cannons for the U.Due south. Ground forces; the cannons oftentimes explode and kill Northern soldiers. They forge George'due south proper noun on the documents, in case the cannons are traced dorsum to Hazard Iron.
  • Episode three (September 17, 1862 – bound 1864) – At the bloody battle of Antietam, Charles and Billy nearly kill each other, but each allows the other to escape. Charles's friend Ambrose is killed in the battle by one of the poor-quality cannons fabricated by Gamble Iron. After, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation frees the slaves in the rebel Southern states. Nigh of the slaves go out the Chief plantation in South Carolina, but Ezra and Semiramis decide to remain until they decide how to move forward with their newfound freedom. Ashton visits her family unit'due south plantation, supposedly to see her recovering mother and sister Brett, but in reality to conduct out Bent's revenge against Orry. Ashton tells Madeline that she knows that Madeline's mother was a high-priced, part-blackness prostitute in New Orleans, and that, unless Madeline leaves Orry with no explanation, she will reveal this secret and ruin Orry'south public reputation. Madeline flees to Charleston where she is befriended by a suave gambler Rafe Baudeen and begins working for the city's poor and orphans who are suffering from the war. Following the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, Baton, ill of not having seen his wife Brett for nearly two years, goes AWOL from the U.South. Army and makes his way to South Carolina, where he and Brett spend some fourth dimension together. Ashton discovers Billy'south presence and goes to tell the local government, but Billy is saved when Brett threatens her sister with a pitchfork long enough for Billy to escape.
  • Episode 4 (May 1864 – late fall 1864) – When Billy returns to his regiment, his commanding officeholder threatens to court-martial and execute him if he ever leaves once again. Billy is also placed in harm'due south way past being put in charge of the regiment'due south skirmishers. George, now a general, is captured in a raid by Southern forces and taken to the dreaded Libby Prison in Richmond, where he is tortured past Captain Turner, the prison's psychotic commandant. Orry is shot and taken to the hospital where Virgilia works; despite her hatred of Southerners, she helps him recover and looks the other style, allowing him to escape. Afterwards, Virgilia is accused of allowing a wounded Southern soldier to die and is fired from the hospital. In a fit of rage, Virgilia pushes the elderly chief nurse Mrs. Neal, causing her to lose her rest and tumble to the floor. Believing Mrs. Neal to exist dead, Virgilia panics and flees the infirmary. Desperate for money and a hiding place, she goes to Congressman Greene for help. He gives her money and protection in substitution for sex activity. Charles saves Augusta from beingness raped past Northern soldiers at her farm in Virginia, and the ii become lovers.
  • Episode v (December 1864 – February 1865) – The war has turned against the South. Orry and Charles save George from Libby Prison, impale Turner in a fight, and allow George to render to the North. Madeline helps starving people in Charleston. Returning home, George learns of his brother and sister-in-law's illegal business schemes to use cheap iron to build cannon, and forces Stanley and Isabel to admit guilt. While Isabel remains defiant and spiteful, Stanley expresses remorse to George and vows to absolve for his crimes. Aptitude tries to kill Madeline in Charleston, but she is rescued by her gambler friend Rafe, who saves Madeline simply is fatally shot by Aptitude. Bent enlists James Huntoon for help in his plot to overthrow the Confederate regime. Although he is however oblivious to Bent's and Ashton'due south affair, Huntoon acts equally a double amanuensis gathering intelligence on the planned coup d'état and reporting the activities to Jefferson Davis. The Confederate President orders Orry to squash the planned revolution. In a final fight, Orry and Huntoon attack Aptitude's hideout almost Richmond. Bent is (apparently) killed when the ammunition he was hiding in a befouled explodes. In a moment of shock and clarity afterward witnessing the destruction of Aptitude's munitions and mayhap him as well, Ashton confesses her affair to James, conspiring to have Billy killed, her past abortion, and tells Orry that she helped Aptitude drive Madeline away. Orry once more disowns Ashton in fury for her secrets and actions confronting both the Main and Hazard families, and tells Huntoon that he never wants to see his sis over again, considering her dead to him now. Ashton begs Huntoon'south forgiveness, but he tells her that it is too tardily, hinting that he, also in anger and disappointment for her betrayal of their spousal relationship, plans to divorce her as punishment for her deportment.
  • Episode six (March 1865 – April 1865) – The fighting ends with a Northern victory. Orry and George lead troops confronting each other in the last major battle at Petersburg; Orry is wounded while trying to fight off Union troops as they overrun his position. Amalgamated General Robert East. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Ground forces General Ulysses Grant and the Regular army of the Potomac, negotiating the terms of surrender at Appomattox. With the war over, Charles goes to Augusta'southward farm and finds that she has died giving birth to his child, a son. He goes to Charleston and gets his child from Augusta'due south uncle'due south wife. Billy too quits the ground forces and reunites with Brett at her family's plantation. Congressman Greene ends his affair with Virgilia, which he thinks detrimental to his political career. Virgilia learns that Greene had been lying to her virtually the seriousness of the charges and using Virgilia'due south dependence for his own gratification; she murders the congressman and is sentenced to death by hanging. She and George have a tearful farewell before her execution. George learns that Orry is wounded and searches for him, finally finding him in a Union hospital. Their reunion is spoiled when both larn that President Lincoln has been shot. George helps Orry discover Madeline, who reveals that Orry is now the father of their son. Orry, Madeline, their baby, and George all set out for the Main plantation. Salem Jones, the cruel former overseer of the Main plantation, joins with one of the Mains' sometime slaves, Cuffey, in an assail on the Principal plantation; they burn the mansion before beingness killed or driven off by Charles, Billy, and Ezra. Orry, George, and Madeline go far, with the former ii helping to fend off the last of the attackers. Οrry's female parent is killed in the attack by Cuffey while trying to prevent Semiramis' rape, but Cuffey is shot dead by Charles, while Salem Jones is shot dead by Brett when he is near to shoot Baton. Orry and George pledge to renew their family's friendship, and George agrees to help Orry rebuild his plantation home by reopening the cotton mill and letting Orry take the profits. The ii families depart the burned out and complanate remains of Mont Royal to prepare for the futurity.

Book III: Heaven and Hell [edit]

  • Episode 1 (summer 1865–autumn 1865) – Elkanah Bent, having survived the explosion of his hidden ammunition depot about Richmond, becomes obsessed with getting his "final revenge" on Orry Main and George Hazard, whom he blames for his failures in life. Bent travels to Richmond and stabs Orry to decease. Ashton visits Madeline with the threat of taking back everything of hers that Orry and Madeline took from her, including Mont Royal, but is horrified to acquire that Bent killed Orry. When Bent tells her he has no apply for her anymore, a furious Ashton tries unsuccessfully to kill him. Heartbroken at Orry's decease, Madeline tries to rebuild the Main family unit mansion at Mont Regal and helps local freed slaves, to the disapproval of most of her white neighbors. After learning of Orry'southward death, George goes to Mont Purple and helps Madeline. Charles Master, now a corporal in the U.S. Cavalry in the Erstwhile West, meets and romances Willa Parker. Ashton begins working as a prostitute in Santa Fe to earn enough money to purchase Mont Royal, unaware of its fate. Carrying out the next part of his plan of revenge, Bent goes to the Hazard mansion near Philadelphia and murders George's wife Constance.
  • Episode 2 (autumn 1865–spring 1866) – Devastated by news of his wife's murder, George begins searching for Bent to exact justice. Cooper Principal, Orry's older brother, becomes a member of the Ku Klux Klan and begins working to undermine his sister-in-law Madeline's efforts to assistance local Blacks. Isabel Hazard, George's greedy sister-in-law, wants to buy Mont Imperial and evict the Main family. Charles continues to work as a cavalryman in the Old West, and continues to romance Willa. Realizing that she cannot stand confronting Cooper and Isabel alone, Madeline asks George for help. Charles helps to form a unit of buffalo soldiers. Cavalrymen massacre a Cheyenne village.
  • Episode 3 (spring 1866–spring/summertime 1866) – George arrives at Mont Royal to help Madeline, and they autumn in love. George, with his blood brother Stanley's aid (who has now gone into politics), make Isabel stop her plans, and Stanley divorces her, blaming her for all his mistakes. Carrying out the concluding part of his revenge, Bent kidnaps Charles and Augusta's son Gus. When George learns of this, he goes West and finds Charles. Together the two men rescue Gus, hunt downward Bent, and hang him. Ashton returns to Mont Regal and weeps when she sees that it has been destroyed. George and Charles return to Mont Majestic to assist Madeline and the freed slaves defeat the Ku Klux Klan. Cooper takes Madeline during the fight, and George rides after to save her. When Cooper is told past Gettys LaMotte to kill both Madeline and George, he refuses. Gettys shoots Cooper, and George kills Gettys. Charles says his goodbyes before returning to Willa and Gus, while George and Madeline plan for their future together.

Awards and nominations [edit]

The North and South miniseries were nominated and/or awarded with many different awards around the world, amongst which the about pregnant are:

Year Laurels Result Category/People
1986 Gilded World Awards Nominated David Carradine for Best Performance by an Role player in a Supporting Part in a Series, Mini-Serial or Move Picture Fabricated for Telly (N&S1)
Nominated Lesley-Anne Downwardly for All-time Functioning by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motility Picture Made for TV (N&S1)
Primetime Emmy Awards Won Costuming team for Outstanding Accomplishment in Costuming for a Miniseries or a Special (N&S1, ep. four)
Nominated Virginia Darcy for Outstanding Accomplishment in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special (N&S1, ep. 1)
Nominated Makeup squad for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special (Due north&S1, ep. 6)
Nominated Beak Conti for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) (N&S1, ep. 1)
Nominated Stevan Larner for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special (N&S1, ep. 6)
Nominated Editing team for Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Special – Single Camera Production (North&S1, ep. 4)
Nominated Sound editing team for Outstanding Audio Editing for a Miniseries or a Special (N&S1, ep. two)
Nominated Hairstyling team for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special (N&S2, ep. ane)
Nominated Robert Fletcher for Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special (N&S2, ep. 1)
Nominated Sound editing team for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special (North&S2, ep. half-dozen)
1995 ASC Award Nominated Don E. FauntLeRoy for Outstanding Accomplishment in Cinematography in Mini-Series (N&S3, ep. 3)

Media [edit]

VHS and DVD releases [edit]

North and South Books I and II were released on NTSC VHS in the U.s.a.. Book 3 was never released on VHS in the U.s.a.. Books I, Ii and III were released on PAL VHS in Europe.

All three Books were released on Region 1 DVD in October 2004. This release also included a bonus featurette with John Jakes and David Wolper talking about the books and the miniseries; James Read, Lesley-Anne Down, and Patrick Swayze discussing their characters; general thoughts of other cast and crew members; plus information about the historical background and trials of its reconstruction for the miniseries.

The Region 2 DVD release contained merely Books I and II at kickoff, but eventually Volume III likewise became bachelor, with the bonus featurette included. All volumes were sold as split boxes, but afterwards they were also available in i box.

Soundtrack [edit]

A soundtrack CD published by Varèse Sarabande in 1985 (VCD47250) contains tracks from the Bill Conti scores to N and South and The Right Stuff. It includes the post-obit tracks from Northward and South:[fourteen]

  1. Main Title iii:45
  2. Southern Life 1:38
  3. Love In The Chapel 4:04
  4. A Close Phone call 2:00
  5. Returning Home 2:13
  6. Final Embrace 2:57
  7. Final Meeting 2:28

The Varèse Sarabande Soundtrack Lodge released the entire score to Due north and S (1985) in a four-CD box attack February 25, 2008.[15] The tracks in this prepare are the original recordings used in the product of the series, with 3 discs devoted to Conti's score and a fourth to the source music from the series. The entire score to North and South: Book Two (1986) was released on Oct three, 2008, and includes three CDs.[16] On December 4, 2015, North and South: Highlights, a 76-minute disc featuring selections from the first miniseries score, was released.[17] David Bong scored Heaven and Hell: N and South Book Iii using Conti'due south thematic material.

See also [edit]

  • List of films featuring slavery

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "Review: Northward and South by John Jakes Release Date: February 12, 1981". Kirkus Reviews. February 1, 1981. Retrieved 2021-10-25 .
  2. ^ Bennett, Mark (August 11, 2007). "John Jakes' journey to New York Times bestseller list included boyhood years in Terre Haute". Tribune-Star. Terre Haute, Ind. Retrieved 2021-x-25 .
  3. ^ "John Jakes '53 Discusses Writing and His Upcoming Book". DePauw University. March 18, 2002. Retrieved 2021-ten-25 .
  4. ^ Jones, Mary Ellen (Nov 30, 1996). "The People's Author: The Life of John Jakes". John Jakes: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. three. ISBN978-0-3132-9530-0 . Retrieved January 7, 2010.
  5. ^ "DVD Review: North and South: Book III - Heaven and Hell". Review Graveyard.
  6. ^ "DVD Verdict Review - North And S: The Consummate Collection". DVD Verdict. [ dead link ]
  7. ^ O'Connor, John J. (Nov 1, 1985). "Boob tube Weekend; N and South, A Mini-serial". The New York Times . Retrieved January seven, 2010.
  8. ^ a b c Leonard, John (November 4, 1985). "Slavs, Slaves, and Shoulders (Review: Northward and Southward)". New York: 58–61. Retrieved Jan vii, 2010.
  9. ^ a b Leonard, John (May 5, 1986). "The Blueish, The Grayness, and the Déshabille (Review: North and S: Book II)". New York: 85. Retrieved January seven, 2010.
  10. ^ Bobbin, Jay (May 4, 1986). "Feud Finally Is Over: Conclusion of Northward and S: Volume II". Orlando Sentinel.
  11. ^ O'Connell, Patricia (February 25, 1994). "Review: John Jakes' Heaven and Hell: Northward and South Part 3". Variety . Retrieved January 7, 2010.
  12. ^ Allis, Tim (February 28, 1994). "The Spoils of War". People. 41 (8). Retrieved January xvi, 2010.
  13. ^ "The Autumn and Rise of Terri Garber". TV Guide (1797). September 5, 1987.
  14. ^ It may be noted that the VCD47250 tracks are re-recordings, every bit the CD notes land that the tracks were recorded Nov 25, 1985, which was after North and South had originally aired. The tracks were re-recorded past Conti and the London Symphony Orchestra because at the time it was less expensive than licensing the original tracks.
  15. ^ "Northward and S past Pecker Conti". Varèse Sarabande. Archived from the original on 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2021-10-25 .
  16. ^ "N And South: Book II By Bill Conti". Varèse Sarabande. Archived from the original on 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2021-10-25 .
  17. ^ "N And South: Highlights". Varèse Sarabande. Archived from the original on 2016-04-ten. Retrieved 2015-12-07 .

External links [edit]

  • North & South at IMDb (1985)
  • North and South at AllMovie
  • N & Due south, Book II at IMDb (1986)
  • Heaven & Hell: Northward & S, Book III at IMDb (1994)
  • Official DVD Homepage

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