With Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird, Mick Chege. A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.Amidst public warnings of a dangerous patient who's escaped from a mental hospital, a young Belle Adams (Hayley Mills) hitches rides on the highway with various assortment of motorists.A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer who's after romance.An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, as an example of love, and grows into a better person.You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.In 1st century Rome, Christian slave Demetrius is sent to fight in the gladiatorial arena and Emperor Caligula seeks Jesus' robe for its supposedly magical powers.The Grants get new neighbors when Hereward and Lettice Palmer arrive. Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika brings to life the colour and adventure of turn-of-the-century Kenya.
They leave Eslpeth in the care of Mrs. Nimmo, whose husband is still away. Elspeth (Holly Aird) and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. Holly is one of only a few actresses who manage the difficult transition from child/teenage actor to adult actress. In 1913, Robin (David Robb) and Tilly Grant (Hayley Mills) arrive in Kenya with the dream of transforming a barren plot of land into a thriving coffee plantation.
Amazon.com: The Flame Trees of Thika: Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird, Ben Cross, Roy Ward Baker: Movies & TV Use the HTML below. As a result, Elspeth must go lives with the Robinsons, a wealthy merchant family who have a resident governess ...At the end of 1913, Tilly and Robin travel to Nairobi with the Palmers to ring in the new year. Lettice almost goes to ...Keep up with all the biggest announcements and updates with IMDb's breaking news roundup of Comic-Con@Home 2020.On this IMDbrief, we break down our favorite panels and surprises from July 2020's Comic-Con@Home.Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.Young lovers find themselves placed at odds with each other, after reigniting a fued between their families over a valuable diamond mine.With Robin away, Tilly decides to go to Nairobi to do what she can for he war effort. Based on the beloved autobiographical novel by Elspeth Huxley, BBC miniseries The Flame Trees of Thika brings an eventful childhood in Eastern Africa to vivid life. In 1913, 11-year-old Elspeth Grant (Holly Aird) traveled with her mother, Tilly (Hayley Mills), from England to Kenya to help build a coffee plantation.
It was adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya's Central Province. In 1981 she portrayed Elspeth Huxley in The Flame Trees of Thika. In 1982 she starred as …