lady caroline lamb film reviews

It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness.This page works best with JavaScript. Robert Bolt was not a born director but he did understand his own script and the direction is competent.

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2020.

Saw the movie when it first came out to critical acclaim. In the days when inteillgence could be found broadly in TV there would have been a season of such gems by now, but no, we watch on DVD in isolation in our homes, absenting ourselves from a shared culture based on the mental capacities of the smart-aleck, but profoundly unlearned, go-getters who have blighted our times with their phenomenal arrogance in the face of the abyss of their ignorance.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Lady Caroline Lamb DVD. Try again. While this film has a very slightly dated appearance, this in no way detracts from it's power and all-round excellence.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Above all, I am reminded of how many undeservedly forgotten excellencies of British cinema appeared in that odd 1970-1973 period. Great film but quality do poor it ruined it.

Lionel Friedberg. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. While this version was obviously taken off a VHS and the picture quality was poor, it nonetheless proves that excellent drama and script require no frills to be effective. ), others difficult to come by, like this one, along with 'Images', 'The Final programme', 'The Last Run' (US/European), 'Zee and Co' and 'Endless Night'. In 1972, the film Lady Caroline Lamb was released to predominantly critical reviews with Sarah Miles in the lead role. While this version was obviously taken off a VHS and the picture quality was poor, it nonetheless proves that excellent drama and script require no frills to be effective.

Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. I will possibly have to search another copy at some point. Marvellous, powerful film - from the days when people were not afraid to choose interesting cultural subjects, which required a little intellectual engagement. Whatever else it may fail at, Lady Caroline Lamb is a theatrical motion picture, which is more than can be said about some other current features that should have gone directly to the Late Show. Tobias Churton

Indeed for a time he seemed to be David Lean's writer of choice until his script for Lean's elephantine "Ryan's Daughter" and that films critical failure, severed those ties. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. Some are unobtainable, like Rattigan's 'Bequest to the Nation' (shame!

The quality is quite poor on this DVD, so was rather disappointed, as I love this film.

V expensive so thought a lot about buying it and sadly disappointed. Its a very good story, I have the Video, and now have replaced it with the DVD.

Line running down it. One of the best soundtracks ever by Richard Rodney Bennett and good performances by a wonderful cast The transfer and visual quality of this great movie is worse than atrocious. The 1905 novel The Marriage of William Ashe by Mary Augusta Ward was based on Lady Caroline and her husband. In the days when inteillgence could be found broadly in TV there would have been a season of such gems by now, but no, we watch on DVD in isolation in our homes, absenting ourselves from a shared culture based on the mental capacities of the smart-aleck, but profoundly unlearned, go-getters who have blighted our times with their phenomenal arrogance in the face of the abyss of their ignorance. Some are unobtainable, like Rattigan's 'Bequest to the Nation' (shame! 15 January 2015 | MOscarbradley Terrible picture. its not a poor quality video it really is quite appalling quality video that appears fuzzy and washed out.spoils all ewnjoyment of what is probably a good film..dont waste your money. 1.0 out of 5 stars Don't even THINK of buying this DVD! I will possibly have to search another copy at some point.

Robert Bolt won two Oscars back to back, (for "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Man for All Seasons"), as well as penning that most literate of epics "Lawrence of Arabia". I gave the movie an 8 out of 10 stars--because I thought the actors gave convincing portrayals of a drug-addled Caroline Lamb, and an ambitious William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and an equally ambitious mother of William Lamb. It was obviously mastered off a pirated VHS tape. I ordered this VHS video tape expecting it to be acceptable, but I was wrong it is absolutely excellent.This is a wonderful film - I can't comment on picture quality - ...

The acting throughout is first-class; the leads excellent and the cameos as good as one might expect from the days when you could still get Larry Olivier and Margaret Leighton in the same film.

Tobias ChurtonTerrible picture. Please try again later.

Above all, I am reminded of how many undeservedly forgotten excellencies of British cinema appeared in that odd 1970-1973 period. Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.