The Bugler Story by Rick Pulford

Author and scriptwriter Rick Pulford is working in partnership with the Hardy Society to develop an intriguing episode in Thomas Hardy’s last years for the big screen. The full-length dramatisation will break new ground in relating how Hardy in his eighties lost his heart to a beautiful actress in her twenties, Gertrude Bugler – to the fury of the second Mrs Hardy.

The Bugler story, already the subject of articles, novels and a play, is ‘aching to be told for film’, Rick says. The picture is provisionally titled Your Friend, Tom.

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