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Post by marispiper on Dec 28, 2016 12:05:26 GMT
I really liked the Agatha Christie drama last night 'Witness for the Prosecution' ....don't tell me who did it! Second part tonight... Much better than last year's Christmas whodunit offering 'And then there were None' (barring Aiden Turner's torso, needless to say) Toby Jones is very good in this one, playing another shuffling, coughing, enigmatic character. Several scenes he was in made me feel like crying... The thing about any Agatha Christie tale is that they are usually a bit fluffy, a bit far fetched, with daft investigators and our fun is in solving the mystery. I didn't want the heart wrenching story of Mayhew and his wife (however well acted) - too, too tragic. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2016 15:50:13 GMT
We watched it in a oner last night. A bit far fetched at times but all good fun and the outcome probably the best way. Knowledge that Lenard would become a cropper from his Mrs, and that Mrs Mayhew would be released from her 'wifely duties' . Tragic end I agree.
Bronte sisters tonight, whose watching that?
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Post by marispiper on Dec 29, 2016 17:39:02 GMT
^^^
I will. Compare notes...
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Post by hild1066 on Dec 30, 2016 12:30:29 GMT
We watched it in a oner last night. A bit far fetched at times but all good fun and the outcome probably the best way. Knowledge that Lenard would become a cropper from his Mrs, and that Mrs Mayhew would be released from her 'wifely duties' . Tragic end I agree. Bronte sisters tonight, whose watching that? I watched and thought it was well done, we got how repressive it was in that house, how nobody knew how to deal with Bramwell because the father just gave in to him for peace and quiet, but we also got how absolutely done in he was by his ill-fated love affair. I thought it strange that at the end we were given the dates of death for two of the sisters and not the other and no mention of the cause etc. No mention of the father's death either.
Scenery was stunning, location shooting at its best. I liked the accent because it was more than likely realistic and yet you had these three women in this oppressive house who had each travelled and had adventures, who thought little of a jaunt to Manchester or London. Amazing insights.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 17:55:26 GMT
I enjoyed enormously. I like the way that their father was ever so proud of all 3 of his daughters writing and he seemed a gentle sort at his wits end with Bramwell. I thought the end was well done with Charlotte and her father grieving separately over the tragic deaths of Bramwell, Emily and Anne all within 9 months. They all died of TB as did Charlotte in 1855. I think their father outlived them all.
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Post by marispiper on Dec 30, 2016 22:24:13 GMT
Best period drama for ages.
I guessed it was filmed at the Parsonage while watching.
What I loved, was there was not a trace of 'Hollywood' - no daft glamour or make up. As Charlotte herself said, it was about 'real life'. Truly excellent.
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Post by sinistral on Dec 31, 2016 0:43:18 GMT
I love that kind of thing, the way actors etc connect with each other. I watched a Sword and Sandals epic a couple of days ago, The Colossus of Rhodes (directed by Sergio Leone, his first) and one of the stars in it also starred in Jess Franco's The Diabolical Dr Z - I did not recognise her: she'd changed her hair colour, but I wouldn't have recognised her anyway. There are lots of better ones than that though. Here's a good 'un, Aubrey. Actress Linden Travers, possibly best known as the 'wife' of Cecil Parker in The Lady Vanishes was the older sister of Bill Travers who was married to Virginia McKenna. Linden had a daughter, Susan Travers, who was also an actress. She played Mrs Van der Valk opposite Barry Foster Susan's daughter is actress Charlotte Lucas. Linden had had a sister, Alice, and she is the mother of Penelope Wilton, who was married to Daniel Massey. Their daughter, also Alice, works in the theatre. Actor, Richard Morant, who played Bunter in the Lord Peter Wimsey TV series was also a nephew of Linden and Bill and cousin of Penelope. |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 24, 2018 20:06:28 GMT
I enjoyed Cardew (The Cad) Robinson on The Good Old Days last night. Morecambe and Wise as well, both looking very young. Leonard Sachs in those days (or in the episode anyway) used to lift his hammer (or whatever the proper term for it is), but he did not hit anything with it. I too watched this programme, there were some very weird acts on, I thought, especially the man who kept falling off a table and ended up stuck upside down in a long tube with his posterior sticking out of the top and his head and shoulders out the bottom of the tube, very odd indeed! I liked the female singer, and Cardew Robinson was quite funny, came on wearing a very long scarf down past his knees, saying. "Do you like the scarf? I`ve got a longer one than this but it looks silly." I`m new btw  Lovely to see you Vagabond. Keep posting. |
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