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Noble House (miniseries)
Summary
Noble House is an American action-drama television miniseries that was produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, and broadcast by NBC in four segments on February 21–24, 1988. Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by James Clavell, it features a large cast headlined by Pierce Brosnan as business tycoon Ian Dunross and was directed by Gary Nelson. Due to time restrictions, several of the many subplots from the book were removed.
This was NBC's second miniseries adaptation of a Clavell novel, the first being 1980's highly successful Shōgun. Both take place in the same fictional universe with Noble House featuring connections to Shōgun and another Clavell work, Tai-Pan.
For the miniseries, the timeframe of the novel was changed; Clavell's original novel takes place in the early 1960s, but the miniseries was updated to the 1980s. The building prominently displayed and used as Struan's is Jardine House.
Despite being Hong-Kong-based most powerful trading company, Struan & Company (also known as the Noble House) is in trouble. Ian Dunross (Pierce Brosnan) is appointed as Tai-Pan of Struan’s, and the inherited legacy of intense rivalry and hatred between him and Quillan Gornt (John Rhys-Davies) and his company Rothwell-Gornt reaches its highest level. Overextended by the previous management, Dunross issued public stock to improve Struan’s financial standing. However, even this decision has not given him the capital he needs. As a result, he is courting the owner of Par Con Industries, American billionaire Lincoln "Linc" Bartlett (Ben Masters) who arrives from California in his private jet, accompanied by his beautiful vice-president, Casey Tcholok (Deborah Raffin), with the apparent goal of closing a profitable deal with Dunross, a deal that would also benefit Struan's. In the jet also arrives Bartlett’s secret employee John Chen (Steven Vincent Leigh), shocking his father, Phillip Chen (Burt Kwouk), a loyal director and compradore of Struan's, who becomes suspicious of his son.
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