Marie Antoinette (2006)

THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF "HEAVEN AND HELL: NORTH AND SOUTH BOOK III" (1994)

Any người hâm mộ of the John Jakes’ NORTH AND SOUTH trilogy would be thêm than happy to tell bạn that the worst entry in the author’s saga about two American families in the mid 19th century was the last one, "HEAVEN AND HELL: North and South Book III". Those những người hâm mộ would be speaking of the 1994 ti vi adaptation, not the novel itself. Unlike many of these fans, I do not share their low opinion of the three-part miniseries. But I will not deny that "HEAVEN AND HELL" had its share of problems. Below is a danh sách of I consider...

"ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" (1953) Review

Years ago, I used to watch a great deal of old phim chiếu rạp on late night television. My two yêu thích channels that offered these phim chiếu rạp were Turner Network ti vi (TNT) and the American phim chiếu rạp Classic (AMC), which used to air phim chiếu rạp without any commercial breaks. On TNT, I had stumbled across a Western movie originally released bởi MGM Studios in 1953 called "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" (1953) and fell in tình yêu with it. After watching my recently purchased DVD copy of the movie, I could see why it became a yêu thích of mine.

Directed bởi John Sturges during the...

"GEORGE WASHINGTON" (1984) Review

Twenty-four years before the award-winning HBO miniseries "JOHN ADAMS" aired, the CBS network aired a miniseries about the first U.S. President, George Washington. Simply titled "GEORGE WASHINGTON", this three-part miniseries was based upon two biographies written bởi James Thomas Flexner - 1965's "George Washington, the Forge of Experience, 1732–1775" and 1968's "George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775–1783".

"GEORGE WASHINGTON" spanned at least forty years in the life of the first president - from 1743, when his father Augustine Washington died...

"PERSUASION" (1971) Review

This adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1818 novel turned out to be the first of the old Jane Austen ti vi adaptations that the BBC aired during the 1970s and 80s. Produced and directed bởi Howard Baker, and adapted bởi Julian Mitchell; this two-part miniseries starred Ann Firbanks and Bryan Marshall.

As many những người hâm mộ of Austen’s novel would know, "PERSUASION" told the story of Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a vain and spendthrift baronet, who finds herself reunited with her former finance, a Naval officer of lesser birth named Frederick Wentworth. Eight years before...

"THE THREE MUSKETEERS" (1948) Review

There are times when I find myself amazed at the longevity of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel, "The Three Musketeers". The novel has been in circulation for nearly 170 years. Hollywood and other film industries have been adapting the novel for the phim chiếu rạp hoặc ti vi for nearly a century. One adaptation I recently viewed was the Hollywood movie produced and released bởi MGM Studios in 1948.

We all know the story. A young Frenchman from Gascon sets out for Paris in the early 17th century to tham gia the King's Musketeers. During this journey, he meets a beautiful,...

"POLDARK" SERIES ONE (1975): EPISODES FIVE TO EIGHT

Last winter, I began watching the BBC's 1975-77 adaptation of Winston Graham's literary series about the life of a British Army officer and American Revolutionary War veteran, following his return to his trang chủ in Cornwall. The first four episodes proved to be adaptation of the first novel in Graham's series, 1945's "Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787". Episodes Five to Eight focused on the series' một giây novel, 1946's "Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790".

Episode Four ended with Ross Poldark, a Cornish landowner and mine owner,...