TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

William Golding's classic sea trilogy, charting a young aristocrat's rite of passage, comes to life in a spectacular adaptation. It's 1812 and Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) is travelling on board a decrepit wooden warship. He is on his way to Australia to take up a Government post secured for him by his rich and influential godfather.

Edmund is young, witty and naive, and all set for adventure and bravery in the face of whatever a long sea voyage might throw at him. He is also immature, vain, haughtily cocksure in his perception of the world and ripe for certain lessons, both emotional and intellectual. The ship he travels in 'renders like an old boot' and there's nothing in the least bit romantic about it. It is crammed with a disparate assortment of officers, seamen and passengers and a 'cargo' of poor emigrants. Presiding over this little society is the irascible Captain Anderson (Jared Harris) , who is positively hostile to Talbot until he learns of the young man's powerful patron, which makes him grudgingly respectful.

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