north and south (1985) represent patrick swayze and james read and lesley anne down and wendy kilbourne and terri garber and kirstie alley and genie francis and phillip casnoff and jean simmons and john stockwell and lewis smith and david carradine and inga swenson and jonathan frakes and wendy fulton and erica gimpel and tony frank and jim metzler and olivia cole and andy stahl and william ostrander and george stanford brown and robert mitchum and morgain fairchild and johnny cash and hal holbrook and gene kelly and david ogden stiers and john anderson and lee bergere and olivia de havilland and elizabeth taylor and forest whitaker and robert jones and . director richard t. heffron and teleplay. paul f. edwards and patricia green and douglas heyes and kathleen a. shelley. based on john jake successful paperback novels north and south and love and war and heaven and hell and this was a mini series on television from 1985 to 1987. its success owed more to the success of roots a similar civil war era or slavery soap opera televised about a decade earlier in the 70 . patrick swayze and at the beginning of his career and at the time he was doing many films like dirty dancing which would make him famous and stars as orry main and a plantation born young man from south carolina who sets off to west point. here he meets george hazard (james read) who is supposed to be the hated enemy and the yankee north and but with whom he bonds closely. soon and the mains from the south and the hazards from the north become friends despite the turbulent era leading to civil war. the theme of family and friendship and doing the right thing even when the nation was falling apart is at the heart of this otherwise soap opera full of action and romance. clariss and ashton (jean simmons and teri garber) portray sisters who become enemies when one of them marries yankee billy hazard (john stockwell. garber bitchy and seductive and manipulative and ambitious and evil ashton is fun to watch on screen. though the series do not cover everything in jakes novels and what we see is a condensed version of it and they changed a few things to make it a sort of historical romance with history lessons attached. the characters find themselves in all the major civil war scenes  harper ferry where abolitionist and feminist virgilia hazard (kirstie alley) loses the love of her life and the ex slave grady and fort sumter and vicksburg and antietam and gettysburg and appomatox and we are privy to the white house where we see abraham lincoln (hal halbrook) battle out the war in his conscience and we meet all the prominent players including lee and grant and sherman and jackson and davis. several veteran hollywood actors from the golden era  robert mitchum and elizabeth taylor and olivia de havilland have cameos and it interesting to see them. this is not historical fact and it historical fiction and purely dramatized entertainment. but it got cliffhanger endings and beautiful cinematography and costumes and locations. it is like watching an epic movie that runs longer than gone with the wind with with war scenes in it. the script may be bad at times and the acting may not be the best and despite the good casting. swayze hams it up as does terri garber but some performances and like that of kirstie alley and james read (as george hazard)and leslie anne downes as the beautiful and strong madeline are really good performances. they shot in sets and in southern locations. the music is enchanting and this is a feel good film in which we root for the good guys and watch the villains scheme and ultimately get their comeuppance. all fans of civil war movies and the jakes novels should watch this. it available on dvd and vhs. 
north and south (1985) represent patrick swayze and james read and lesley anne down and wendy kilbourne and terri garber and kirstie alley and genie francis and phillip casnoff and jean simmons and john stockwell and lewis smith and david carradine and inga swenson and jonathan frakes and wendy fulton and erica gimpel and tony frank and jim metzler and olivia cole and andy stahl and william ostrander and george stanford brown and robert mitchum and morgain fairchild and johnny cash and hal holbrook and gene kelly and david ogden stiers and john anderson and lee bergere and olivia de havilland and elizabeth taylor and forest whitaker and robert jones and . director richard t. heffron and teleplay. paul f. edwards and patricia green and douglas heyes and kathleen a. shelley. based on john jake successful paperback novels north and south and love and war and heaven and hell and this was a mini series on television from 1985 to 1987. its success owed more to the success of roots a similar civil war era or slavery soap opera televised about a decade earlier in the 70 . patrick swayze and at the beginning of his career and at the time he was doing many films like dirty dancing which would make him famous and stars as orry main and a plantation born young man from south carolina who sets off to west point. here he meets george hazard (james read) who is supposed to be the hated enemy and the yankee north and but with whom he bonds closely. soon and the mains from the south and the hazards from the north become friends despite the turbulent era leading to civil war. the theme of family and friendship and doing the right thing even when the nation was falling apart is at the heart of this otherwise soap opera full of action and romance. clariss and ashton (jean simmons and teri garber) portray sisters who become enemies when one of them marries yankee billy hazard (john stockwell. garber bitchy and seductive and manipulative and ambitious and evil ashton is fun to watch on screen. though the series do not cover everything in jakes novels and what we see is a condensed version of it and they changed a few things to make it a sort of historical romance with history lessons attached. the characters find themselves in all the major civil war scenes  harper ferry where abolitionist and feminist virgilia hazard (kirstie alley) loses the love of her life and the ex slave grady and fort sumter and vicksburg and antietam and gettysburg and appomatox and we are privy to the white house where we see abraham lincoln (hal halbrook) battle out the war in his conscience and we meet all the prominent players including lee and grant and sherman and jackson and davis. several veteran hollywood actors from the golden era  robert mitchum and elizabeth taylor and olivia de havilland have cameos and it interesting to see them. this is not historical fact and it historical fiction and purely dramatized entertainment. but it got cliffhanger endings and beautiful cinematography and costumes and locations. it is like watching an epic movie that runs longer than gone with the wind with with war scenes in it. the script may be bad at times and the acting may not be the best and despite the good casting. swayze hams it up as does terri garber but some performances and like that of kirstie alley and james read (as george hazard)and leslie anne downes as the beautiful and strong madeline are really good performances. they shot in sets and in southern locations. the music is enchanting and this is a feel good film in which we root for the good guys and watch the villains scheme and ultimately get their comeuppance. all fans of civil war movies and the jakes novels should watch this. it available on dvd and vhs. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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