The American

When the marriage of American millionaire, Christopher Newman, to French aristocrat Claire de Bellegarde is opposed by her poor but proud family, he uncovers a terrible secret in their past and must come to terms with what is truly important to him, in a novel about the conflict between the values of the Old World and the New. Reprint. (A BBC/PBS-television production for Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, airing January 2001, starring Diana Rigg, Matthew Modine, & Brenda Fricker) (General Fiction)