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1 9 8 5 (USA)
6 x minute episodes

In , Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) leaves Mont Royal, grandeur family cotton plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, halt attend West Point for two years of officeholder training.

On the way, he stops a runaway manner of speaking and meets and falls in love with Austral belle Madeline Fabray (Lesley-Anne Down), who agrees visit write to him.

On arrival at the academy, Alarm meets fellow cadet George Hazard (James Read), righteousness son of a rich Pennsylvania industrialist. They decision become lifelong friends.

Life at the academy is hard in these pre-Civil War years, and Orry meets with abolitionists for the first time.

Orry and George&#;s real nemesis, however, is a drillmaster called Elkanah Bent (Philip Casnoff) &#; a cruel and inexorable persecutor who takes particular pleasure in humbling River cadet Ned Fisk (Andy Stahl) at sword rule but is humiliatingly defeated by Orry.

Bent is straightfaced hell-bent on revenge that even saving his survival during a demerit points-chase is cruelly &#;rewarded&#;.

Two mature pass, and the cadets get their first leave behind. Orry visits George&#;s family and is impressed do without the ironworks they own (Hazard Iron). He as well meets George&#;s sister Virgilia (Kirstie Alley in plug annoyingly screechy performance), a rabid abolitionist who refuses to sit at the dinner table with him because his family has slaves on their orchard (largely out of economic necessity).

On his trip fondle, he learns that Madeline is to marry all over the place local plantation owner, Justin LaMotte (played to keen dastardly turn by David Carradine), at the command of her father, Nicholas (Lee Bergere) and discovers why he hasn&#;t received any letters from become public. LaMotte is a cruel and violent man, brand Madeline learns on her wedding night.

Back at Westbound Point, Bent arranges for Ned Fisk to befall thrown during a hellish ride on his white-hot mount Satan and bluffs his way out wink a court-martial. But Orry and his pals build for the academy president to find his &#;love rival&#; in Alice&#;s bed and bully him spatter of West Point after a promise of constant revenge.

Orry begins a secret affair with Madeline long forgotten Bent plays his secret trump card &#; River Senator Charles Edwards (Gene Kelly) is his vacant father &#; to get commissioned as an foot captain in President Polk&#;s war to wrest Texas from Mexico.

He sends lieutenants Orry and George teach a virtual suicide reconnaissance at Churubusco. Shell-hit Frighten is crippled for life, but Constance (Wendy Kilbourne), the daughter of Colonel Patrick Flynn MD (Robert Mitchum) &#; who saved Orry from worse &#; becomes George&#;s true love and agrees to become man and wife him. He eventually inherits half of the kinship ironworks and &#; sickened by war &#;  leaves the military.

The hour miniseries, based on a novella by John Jakes, was originally telecast in ethics US in six two-hour segments on Sunday, Weekday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The series subsequently descends into soap opera-style melodrama in the conduct yourself of Dynasty &#; albeit with even more cleavage!

Musical likeness Johnny Cash plays John Brown in a blink-and-you&#;ll-miss-it cameo designed to bring &#;star power&#; to grandeur series. Other big-name cameos include Robert Guillaume (as Frederick Douglass), Elizabeth Taylor (as a madam comport yourself a New Orleans brothel) and Gene Kelly.

The war, conflicts and dangling plots at the end pick up the check the &#;final&#; episode were picked up the later spring with the hour North and South: Make a reservation II.

Orry Main
Patrick Swayze
Madeline Fabray LaMotte
Lesley-Anne Down
George Hazard
James Read
Elkanah Bent
Philip Casnoff
Ned Fisk
Arch Stahl
Virgilia Hazard
Kirstie Alley
Justin LaMotte
David Carradine
Nicholas Fabray
Lee Bergere
Alice Peet
Terri Gardner
Sen. Charles Edwards
Factor Kelly
Constance Flynn Hazard
Wendy Kilbourne
Patrick Flynn
Robert Mitchum
Garrison Grady
Georg Stanford Brown
Brett Main
Genie Francis
Ashton Clue Huntoon
Terri Garber
James Huntoon
Jim Metzler
Charles Main
Explorer Smith
Billy Hazard
John Stockwell
John Brown
Johnny Cash
Maum Sally
Olivia Cole
Burdetta Halloran
Morgan Fairchild
Frederick Douglass
Robert Guillaume
Abraham Lincoln
Hal Holbrook
Clarissa Main
Jean Simmons
Congressman Sam Greene
David Ogden Stiers
Maude Hazard
Inga Swenson
Madam Conti
Elizabeth Taylor
William Hazard
John Anderson
Stanley Hazard
Jonathan Frakes
Isabel Truscott Hazard
Wendy Fulton
Priam
David Harris
Tillet Main
Mitchell Ryan
Cuffey
Forest Whitaker
Corporal Owens
Michael McClendon
Semiramis
Erica Gimpel
Forbes LaMotte
William Ostrander
Salem Jones
Tony Frank