"Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads."
Peter Strauss
as Dick Diver
Mary Steenburgen
as Nicole Warren Diver
Sean Young
as Rosemary Hoyt
John Heard
as Abe North
Ed Asner
as Devereux Warren
Joanna David
as Hannah
Piper Laurie
as Elsie Speers
Timothy West
as Mr. Morris
John Sessions
as Young Scot
William Hope
as American in Bar
Jerome Willis
as T.F. Golding
Philippe Mareuil
as The hotel manager
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novel
Tariq Anwar
Editor
Malcolm Cowley
Writer
Dennis Potter
Barbara Kidd
Costume Design
Derek Dodd
Production Design
Jonathan Powell
Executive Producer
Ken Westbury
Director of Photography
Robert Knights
Director
Richard Rodney Bennett
Original Music Composer
Betty Willingale
Producer