Orson Welles' Great Mysteries La Grande Breteche (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

La Grande Breteche (Season 1, Episode 4)

TV Episode | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A Spanish officer, captured by the French during the Peninsular War, is imprisoned at the country house of an elderly aristocrat with a bored young wife - whose lover he becomes, with deadly consequences.

Director

Peter Sasdy

Writers

Honoré de Balzac (story "La Grande Breteche") | Martin Worth (dramatised by)

Cinematographer

Gary Graver (intro sequence)

Production Designer

Marilyn Taylor

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Edit Released

Updated Sep 22, 1973

Release date

Sep 22, 1973 (United Kingdom)

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Orson Welles Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Citizen Kane (1941)
Susannah York Countess Josephine Countess Josephine See fewer	A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Peter Cushing Count Gerard de Merret Count Gerard de Merret See fewer	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Morag Hood Rosalie Rosalie See fewer	War & Peace (1972)
Michael Elphick Gorenflot Gorenflot See fewer	The Elephant Man (1980)
Pauline Delaney Madame Lerpas (as Pauline Delany) Madame Lerpas (as Pauline Delany) See fewer	The Avengers (1961)
Michael Golden Lerpas Lerpas See fewer	Murder She Said (1961)
Marc Zuber Don Feredia Don Feredia See fewer	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Tony Rohr Jean Jean See fewer	Leap Year (2010)