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A Hazard of Hearts
A Hazard of Hearts is a made-for-television romantic film starring Helena Bonham Carter in one of her first major roles. Based on a novel by Barbara Cartland, it was released in 1987.
Plot.
Compulsive gambler, Sir Giles Staverley, is tricked into gambling away his home by his old adversary Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperate, Wrotham gives him one last chance - he will gamble everything Staverley has lost against Staverley's daughter's hand in marriage and
reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was Lucy Honeychurch in "A Room with a View" (1985), which was filmed after "Lady Jane" but released two months earlier. Bonham Carter also appeared in episodes of "Miami Vice" as Don Johnson's love interest during the 1986–87 season and then, in 1987 with Dirk Bogarde in "The Vision", Stewart Granger in "A Hazard of Hearts" and John Gielgud in "Getting It Right". Bonham Carter was originally cast in the role of Bess