Overview
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Cast
- Derek Jacobi as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
- Paul Brooke as Lord Paramount
- Julian Firth
- John Tams
- Ian Targett
- Paddy Ward
- Jo Warne
- Chris Whittingham
- Rory Murray as Henry Ottaway
- Corin Redgrave as Sir Thomas Neathouse