Langrishe, Go Down

A rare treat — catch it while you can. Director David Jones and playwright Harold Pinter's deliciously dark made-for-TV drama was originally broadcast in the U.K. in 1978, but took 25 years to make its U.S. debut, thanks in large part to the subsequent international success of its two stars: Dame Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons. As civil war rages in Spain, time in the Irish countryside is at a standstill for the reclusive Langrishe sisters — Helen (Annette Crosbie), Imogen (Dench) and Lily (Susan Williamson) — the middle-aged, unmarried remnants of a once grand Anglo-Irish family. Dotty Lily flits about in a world of her own, Imogen pores over stacks of u...