American Friends

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.

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  Tristram Powell
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  Penny Eyles

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  Michael Palin
  Rev. Francis Ashby
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  Trini Alvarado
  Elinor Hartley
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  Connie Booth
  Caroline Hartley
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  Alfred Molina
  Oliver Syme
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  Bryan Pringle
  Haskell
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  Jonathan Firth
  Cable
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  Susan Denaker
  Mrs. Cantrell
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  David Calder
  Pollitt
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  Robert Eddison
  Rushden - The President
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  Simon Jones
  Anderson
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  Fred Pearson
  Hapgood
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  Ian Dunn
  Gowers
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  Charles McKeown
  Maynard
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  Roger Lloyd Pack
  Dr. Butler
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  John Nettleton
  Groves
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  Alun Armstrong
  Dr. Weeks
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  Sheila Reid
  Mrs. Weeks
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  Charles Simon
  Canon Harper
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  Arthur Howard
  Voe
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  Wensley Pithey
  Cave