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.
Derek Jacobi
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Paul Brooke
as Lord Paramount
Julian Firth
as
John Tams
as
Ian Targett
as
Paddy Ward
as
Jo Warne
as
Chris Whittingham
as
Rory Murray
as Henry Ottaway
Corin Redgrave
as Sir Thomas Neathouse
Sally Ashby
as
Brenda Bruce
as
