![]() ![]() ![]() In the third category is earnest, pinch-faced Leonard Bast, played by Sam West, a bank clerk who goes in for self-improvement and becomes a little “project” of Helen’s. Margaret is to become a dear friend to Ruth, and then, after Ruth’s death, even dearer to widower, Henry. ![]() In the second category are the elegant, leisured and artistically inclined Schlegel sisters of German origin: Margaret (Thompson) and Helen (Helena Bonham Carter). He is the proprietor of Howards End, a sweet country house, much beloved of Henry’s ailing wife Ruth (Vanessa Redgrave). In the first category, Anthony Hopkins plays Henry Wilcox, the dynamic, self-made and self-satisfied man who has amassed a fortune by exploiting mineral resources in Nigeria, and has something of David Lloyd George about him. It is a tragedy of inherited wealth among the Edwardian middle classes: upper-middle, middle and lower-middle. ![]()
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