Northanger Abbey is a 1986 made for television film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. It was directed by Giles foster and Produced by Louis Marks. The screen play was written by Maggie Wadey. The film was originally broadcasted on the A&E Network and the BBC. It starred Katharine Schlesinger as Catherine Morland and Peter Firth as her love interest Henry Tilney. This film adaptation of Northanger Abbey was made and aired in the eighties the most interesting part of this adaptation is that is puzzling. It is very over dramatized all of the cast performances, except that of Ingrid Lacey who plays Eleanor Tilney, seem to be something completely opposite of what we have come to expect in Jane Austen novels, adaptations, and characters. Maybe it is a big play on parody, or pos