After the Albert Finney "Scrooge", Anthony Newley had a thing for "cute" villains--He reportedly wanted to do a funny Richard III musical at one point.
Newley putting Quilp's name in the title was "a choice", but when it didn't sell (ie. audiences didn't have a freaking clue), it was later released for TV/cable as the more Dickens-friendly "The Old Curiosity Shop".
So Quilp lent the old man a bunch of money on the assumption it was going to used to improve the old man's business and instead it was all lost on highly risky gambling Quilp merely wants to get his loan money back and the old man and Nell run away, causing Nell to have to live outdoors and she dies. So whose really the villain here? Seems like the old man bought all this on himself!
Evidently, he's like Oogie Boogie from "The Nightmare Before Christmas"...a secondary antagonist to draw attention away from the true villain of the story.
I will say this...at least this adaptation stays true to the source in that Nell is NOT the frail, passive flower that many believe her to be. In the novel as well as here, she's the one who takes control of the situation and gets her and her grandfather out of Quilp's clutches. She's the one who makes money for them on the road, at Mrs. Jarley's waxworks. Unfortunately, her physical strength and health just don't hold out against prolonged hardship.
I've only seen the Defunctland video about it. It does sound pretty terrible! It's a shame it never got its renovation as a "The Muppets are actively demolishing and rebuilding this ride around you" ride.
@@timothymclean I was 6 the first and only time I ever went on it and even at that tender age I knew it was a genuinely awful ride. The Monsters Inc. version is good but it's starting to show its age and either needs a major year-long refurb or a total tear down. I wish they would've gone with the Muppets thing because that sounds amazing. But I have a feeling it's probably going to get absorbed into the Marvel thing which I wouldn't be entirely mad about if it's done right.
In the musical number where Quilp enumerates all of his vile deeds, he name drops his “good friend Fagin”. Newley played the Artful Dodger in David Lean’s version of “Oliver Twist”. That’s a fun callback! Also, Anthony Newley wrote the title theme to “Goldfinger” as well as “The Candyman” and “Pure Imagination”!
Seeing her mention them doing a musical version of Tom Sawyer reminds me. I still hope that we eventually see her do the animated Tom Sawyer musical from 2000.
I'm ashamed to admit Happiness Pie sounds like a song I'd genuinely enjoy listening to all the way through. I don't know what it is, but I'm a sucker for playful melodies like that.
Hope she definitely mentions the beginning! Honestly, I did NOT see the Captain and Mulan as a romantic couple at all in the first movie, so that first scene in the second without a doubt felt strangled by the red string.
Talk a little bit about Hayley Westenra, the singer at the end. Really great underrated talent from New Zealand and it's sad that the two big Disney projects she got called to do were DTV sequels (the other being Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch)
@@colleen4ever You're not wrong, but I'm more upset about Mulan 2 for the assholification of Mushu, and the fact that they neutralized the alliance and doomed all of china just for love. Like, bruh.
16:47 - I literally stumbled across this musical a few weeks ago, and this part bothered me as well when I saw it. Because of the film's odd choice in character focus, it's kind of hard to get behind Kit being all sad and sentimental over Nell's passing, since they barely had any screentime together to show a strengthening bond - and as a result, it just makes for a weak final number that almost borders on being pointless. (I'll admit that I unironically enjoyed the film for what it was, corniness and all, but I agree that it clearly has its problems.)
Villains in these things always have thick, unruly mats of black hair. That's why I'm so grateful for modern fashion; I never comb my hair, but I can keep it short enough that no one realizes I'm actually evil.
In our culture and society, "thick, unruly mats of black hair" implies that the villain isn't the Whitest of Whites, that he might be Mediterranean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Black, or some other dark person who isn't 100% "Aryan" and therefore isn't all that pure in this society's eyes.
Diva must be tired of writing the new script and feels exhausted judigng by this thumbnail. Who said the pen Is mightier then the sword as the quill Is honestly no difference unless your a Harpy's Featherduster!
I always thought that Oscar Wilde's famous quote about this novel was a touch hypocritical. I mean, it's not as though Wilde wasn't as tearjerking as all get-out in the fairy tales he wrote--especially "The Happy Prince." And it's interesting how adaptations of this seem to like to portray the deathbed scene "onscreen", as it were, when in the novel we hear about it after the fact...after the travelers have gotten there and poor Grandfather keeps insisting that Nell is only sleeping.
I must commend you, Diva. It's one thing to get an interesting snark review out of a work that's an amusingly bad hot mess. It's a whole new level of difficulty to get one out of something that seems so dull.
If there's a more obvious fake hunchback than Anthony Newley's in this movie, I haven't seen it. Looks like he stuffed a pillow into the back of his shirt.
Yeah, the most confusing thing about this musical is that, even though it makes Quilp the main focus, it doesn't really make him the main character. The point of the story is still all about what happens to Nell and her grandfather.
Now that I've seen the last song "Love Has The Longest Memory" (someone finally posted the full movie on TH-cam)...I gotta admit it choked me up a little.
Hi, Diva, been a while since we last a Musical Hell episode. I honestly never heard of Mr. Quilp. Then again, l wasn’t born yet at the time, so that would be the reason why. 😁 Still, good to see you again. 😎👍🏻
Firstly, I had never heard of "Mr. Quilp" until now. It looked awful! 😒 Secondly, I'm glad that you're finally going to roast "Mulan II". I've heard bad things about it for *years* now! 😈
Great to see you back, Diva! I hope that your time off was the refresher that you needed! Glad to see that the case you returned to was at least more bearable than most (certainly more than the last one before your time off)! And I hope that you're able to reach the 50K-Subscriber mark soon, as it would be an awesome milestone for year 10 of Musical Hell (even if it's later than the 10-year anniversary)! I'm sure that the Disney cheapquel topic for the next case will gather quite a number of views AND subscribers, as I can already hear angry fans sharpening their pitchforks and lighting their torches! I'm almost more scared of that mob riot storming the comments section than I am of the movie itself! (And that was a sequel I thought was horrible LONG before Doug Walker's Disneycember 2016 review made it the hottest trash-fire of all the DTV sequels.)
Just finished reading The Woman in White and loved it! With the exception of A Christmas Carol, any attempt to read Dickens for fun almost always results on me feeling like it’s a school assignment. I read that the Lloyd Webber musical was a thing, but have not looked it up to see if it was filmed at any point.
Oh god...Duchess marries...PLEASE tell me she was older in the book and not imply what I think you're implying! I know this is the 1800's we're dealing with but give me some solace.
To be perfectly honest I love the Happiness Pie number after hearing it in full. It’s super catchy and I feel that it definitely would benefit in another musical. Also “Sport of Kings” isn’t half bad either.
Ok Diva the final sentence for this unfathomably dull & contrived thing was honestly worth watching the entire video for. How you made this *PAINFULLY* boring movie in any way entertaining via your review is honestly impressive. Just hearing you describe the plot of this "musical" (it barely qualifies in my opinion) was difficult to get through. Plus the ending with the girl dying is just the epitome of emotionally dishonest schmaltz. Thanks for taking one for the team as this review had to be hard to get through writing/filming and yeah will be avoiding this thing from here on out. Because the worst kind of bad is the *DULL* kind of bad.
These are the kind of movies I love seeing you review. There’s a lot of movies that had ideas, effort and talent involved but just didn’t come together for certain reasons that vary. Even as bad as many of these are they still make great guilty pleasure watches especially with Diva’s analysis to go along.
@@GPischke I'm not a big fan of the Sweeney Todd movie with Johnny Depp, though I think it's okay. However, IMO, the stage show is wonderful and one of my favorites. There are videotapes of at least three professional performances, either onstage or in concert, and I'm sure you'll find plenty of school and community productions of Sweeney Todd here on TH-cam.
I just realized that's David Warner as Mr. Brass... did the poor guy miss a car payment or something? Edit: God, and they dragged Dame Gillian Lynne into this, too. This movie is a perfect storm of "you're so much better than this, what the hell?"
Also, why do a villain perspective flip musical for Daniel Quilp of all Dickens villains or antagonists? If you want to do one of these for a Dickens villain, Therese DeFarge and/or Abel Magwich are right there.
"What have you done with my. Gold. /Trent/." It's godawful, but Mr. Quilp's expressions kill me. Edit: Look, I get Britain is small, but surely they could've found 2 different-looking enough actors for Quilp and Swiveler. Edit #2: Also, one of my favorite pieces of Victorian trivia is that the Old Curiosity Shop was originally a British newspaper serial that spread internationally, and Americans would wait for incoming ships from across the pond to dock so they could ask its passengers if Nell was dead yet.
Fun fact when the book was being written in serial form and bring brought to America when the final chapter came there were people waiting for the boat and yelling is Nell dead yet ?true story😂 and what was with that line I wouldn’t treat a monkey the way they treated me what the hell 🤪
Is it just me, or do the songs sounds like they're trying way too hard to be My Fair Lady? Kit's final song sounds like a more overdramatic version of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"!
Pardon me while I go and invent a cocktail called the Dick Swiveler. This being grimy Victorian London, it will probably be gin based.
So this is the "Poor Little Nell" that Gus the Theater Cat was referring to.
"Nell protests mildly...she does everything mildly..."
Oh Diva, never change 😂
This was clearly designed to be a star vehicle for Anthony Newley first and a coherent story seventy-second.
Anyone else find it kinda neat that Musical Hell began with a cruise-related musical, and is now setting sail itself upon one?
I just hope that cruise doesn’t end up like the Titanic, especially not the animated ones.
Honestly, I would not be surprised if this started out as a “Wicked”-style “Sympathetic Villain Origin Story” for Quilp.
THAT would make for a GOOD version of this musical!
After the Albert Finney "Scrooge", Anthony Newley had a thing for "cute" villains--He reportedly wanted to do a funny Richard III musical at one point.
Why is this comment from 2 days ago???
@@p.terodactyl6848 Patron Early Access.
I was also wondering if this also inspired the idea of the Saucy Jack musical about Jack The Ripper in This Is Spinal Tap!
Newley putting Quilp's name in the title was "a choice", but when it didn't sell (ie. audiences didn't have a freaking clue), it was later released for TV/cable as the more Dickens-friendly "The Old Curiosity Shop".
Betsy: *Watching her abuser die* Wait, no, come back. . .
That's not all that unusual. believe it or not.
Should have been “stop, don’t, come back”
Stockholm Syndrome.
So Quilp lent the old man a bunch of money on the assumption it was going to used to improve the old man's business and instead it was all lost on highly risky gambling Quilp merely wants to get his loan money back and the old man and Nell run away, causing Nell to have to live outdoors and she dies. So whose really the villain here? Seems like the old man bought all this on himself!
Seems reasonable IF Quilp wasn;t lusting after Nell the whole time as well considering the fact that he's an abuser of his wife!
I hate that joke you made in the last sentence but I must adulate your cleverness. Really brings a whole different meaning to "bought the farm".
Evidently, he's like Oogie Boogie from "The Nightmare Before Christmas"...a secondary antagonist to draw attention away from the true villain of the story.
I will say this...at least this adaptation stays true to the source in that Nell is NOT the frail, passive flower that many believe her to be. In the novel as well as here, she's the one who takes control of the situation and gets her and her grandfather out of Quilp's clutches. She's the one who makes money for them on the road, at Mrs. Jarley's waxworks. Unfortunately, her physical strength and health just don't hold out against prolonged hardship.
I've been on Superstar Limo. That is truly a horrific punishment.
I've only seen the Defunctland video about it. It does sound pretty terrible!
It's a shame it never got its renovation as a "The Muppets are actively demolishing and rebuilding this ride around you" ride.
@@timothymclean I was 6 the first and only time I ever went on it and even at that tender age I knew it was a genuinely awful ride. The Monsters Inc. version is good but it's starting to show its age and either needs a major year-long refurb or a total tear down. I wish they would've gone with the Muppets thing because that sounds amazing. But I have a feeling it's probably going to get absorbed into the Marvel thing which I wouldn't be entirely mad about if it's done right.
Looks like Muppet Christmas Carol is still the best film adaptation of a Dickens novel.
What about the other adaptations?
I was going to say that the set for a Muppets Movie looks more believable than this.
@@megelizabeth9492I prefer the one with Albert Finny, that’s the definitive movie musical of a classic.
@@megelizabeth9492Don’t forget the other adaptations with Albert Finny
In the musical number where Quilp enumerates all of his vile deeds, he name drops his “good friend Fagin”. Newley played the Artful Dodger in David Lean’s version of “Oliver Twist”. That’s a fun callback!
Also, Anthony Newley wrote the title theme to “Goldfinger” as well as “The Candyman” and “Pure Imagination”!
11:48 (recognizes one of the actors & suddenly compelled to quote MST3K again)
"David Warner, you're under arrest by the order of David Warner!"
All I can say is - what the Dickens??
Seeing her mention them doing a musical version of Tom Sawyer reminds me. I still hope that we eventually see her do the animated Tom Sawyer musical from 2000.
Give them an award! Clearly this is the most apropos exclamation here!
@@Rabbitlord108 I saw the live action Tom Sawyer musical. It's not that bad!
Only Scrooge and Oliver are much better musical adaptations.
I'm ashamed to admit Happiness Pie sounds like a song I'd genuinely enjoy listening to all the way through. I don't know what it is, but I'm a sucker for playful melodies like that.
It's one of those songs that sounds better listened to out of context.
@@dunes8817 or placed anywhere else!
The choreography cracks me up. It’s like, of course they are going to toss bags around.
"Sees Next Case"
OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see Diva tear apart that wretched excuse for a sequel!
Hope she definitely mentions the beginning! Honestly, I did NOT see the Captain and Mulan as a romantic couple at all in the first movie, so that first scene in the second without a doubt felt strangled by the red string.
Talk a little bit about Hayley Westenra, the singer at the end. Really great underrated talent from New Zealand and it's sad that the two big Disney projects she got called to do were DTV sequels (the other being Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch)
@@colleen4ever You're not wrong, but I'm more upset about Mulan 2 for the assholification of Mushu, and the fact that they neutralized the alliance and doomed all of china just for love. Like, bruh.
@@jeremyusreevu237 I mean they never show that happening, but the implications are still as clear as daylight.
Show no mercy Diva!
Anthony Newley's Mr. Quilp resembles Richard III if played by Terry Jones.
You are right. Terry Jones could play Richard III better than Anthony Newley can with Mr. Quilp.
Still a better career move for Anthony Newley than appearing in The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
@@wavesofwoodenlegs Terry played Richard III briefly in a TV series called Medieval Lives, which put the thought in my head.
@@TomMSTie1138 Oh yeah! I remember that now. It was still better than Anthony playing Mr. Quilp.
You ought to check out the Dickens parody “The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff”!
11:19: I know what the punchline is: “He got stuck only once, for a moment or two”.
I’m beginning to see why magazine publishing companies shouldn’t produce musicals.
16:47 - I literally stumbled across this musical a few weeks ago, and this part bothered me as well when I saw it. Because of the film's odd choice in character focus, it's kind of hard to get behind Kit being all sad and sentimental over Nell's passing, since they barely had any screentime together to show a strengthening bond - and as a result, it just makes for a weak final number that almost borders on being pointless. (I'll admit that I unironically enjoyed the film for what it was, corniness and all, but I agree that it clearly has its problems.)
Baliff's voice woke my cat up and had him looking around a little
Villains in these things always have thick, unruly mats of black hair. That's why I'm so grateful for modern fashion; I never comb my hair, but I can keep it short enough that no one realizes I'm actually evil.
In our culture and society, "thick, unruly mats of black hair" implies that the villain isn't the Whitest of Whites, that he might be Mediterranean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Black, or some other dark person who isn't 100% "Aryan" and therefore isn't all that pure in this society's eyes.
Everything about this production just screams 1970s!
never heard of this musical until now!
Same
"An exercise in tedium that mistakes itself for amusement," is exactly what vacations turned into for me.
That line can also be used to describe a lot of really bad comedies.
Diva must be tired of writing the new script and feels exhausted judigng by this thumbnail. Who said the pen Is mightier then the sword as the quill Is honestly no difference unless your a Harpy's Featherduster!
Not to mention finding the thing she's reviewing to be really BORING!
Something about Mr Quilp's appearance and mannerisms in this remind of Mr Clipboard from Foodfight
I always thought that Oscar Wilde's famous quote about this novel was a touch hypocritical. I mean, it's not as though Wilde wasn't as tearjerking as all get-out in the fairy tales he wrote--especially "The Happy Prince."
And it's interesting how adaptations of this seem to like to portray the deathbed scene "onscreen", as it were, when in the novel we hear about it after the fact...after the travelers have gotten there and poor Grandfather keeps insisting that Nell is only sleeping.
I must commend you, Diva. It's one thing to get an interesting snark review out of a work that's an amusingly bad hot mess. It's a whole new level of difficulty to get one out of something that seems so dull.
If there's a more obvious fake hunchback than Anthony Newley's in this movie, I haven't seen it. Looks like he stuffed a pillow into the back of his shirt.
Marty Feldman as Eye-Gore in Young Frankenstein had a hump that kept slipping to the other side!
And Quilp wasn't even a hunchback in the novel...he was a dwarf.
@@jenniferschillig3768 I'm guessing Newley didn't want to do all that dancing on his knees
Wait a minute. The title character... dies *before * the ending is resolved?!
Yeah, the most confusing thing about this musical is that, even though it makes Quilp the main focus, it doesn't really make him the main character. The point of the story is still all about what happens to Nell and her grandfather.
Welcome back Diva‼️ Mr. Quilp looks and sounds very lackluster‼️ Can’t wait to see your next review‼️
What if Anthony Newley in this swapped roles with Rex Harrison in Doctor Dolittle? They seem to have exactly opposite problems.
Now that I've seen the last song "Love Has The Longest Memory" (someone finally posted the full movie on TH-cam)...I gotta admit it choked me up a little.
Hi, Diva, been a while since we last a Musical Hell episode. I honestly never heard of Mr. Quilp. Then again, l wasn’t born yet at the time, so that would be the reason why. 😁 Still, good to see you again. 😎👍🏻
It doesn't help that this adaptation uses the name of the villain instead of the title the story usually goes by.
Firstly, I had never heard of "Mr. Quilp" until now. It looked awful! 😒
Secondly, I'm glad that you're finally going to roast "Mulan II". I've heard bad things about it for *years* now! 😈
That line last about tedium...Woo! That burned worse than the flames you're surrounded by, Diva!
Great to see you back, Diva! I hope that your time off was the refresher that you needed! Glad to see that the case you returned to was at least more bearable than most (certainly more than the last one before your time off)! And I hope that you're able to reach the 50K-Subscriber mark soon, as it would be an awesome milestone for year 10 of Musical Hell (even if it's later than the 10-year anniversary)!
I'm sure that the Disney cheapquel topic for the next case will gather quite a number of views AND subscribers, as I can already hear angry fans sharpening their pitchforks and lighting their torches! I'm almost more scared of that mob riot storming the comments section than I am of the movie itself! (And that was a sequel I thought was horrible LONG before Doug Walker's Disneycember 2016 review made it the hottest trash-fire of all the DTV sequels.)
I’m excited for that too! Those DTV Disney sequels do get a lot of views for Diva.
@@alexanderklepp Me too!! Give it all you got, Diva. Hold nothing back!!
She is going to eat that parallel universe Mushu for lunch.
I was never a big Dickens fan. Much prefer his contemporary and sometime pal, Wilkie Collins.
Has there ever been a musical based on his works?
Well, there's Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman In White, but that was a failure.
Just finished reading The Woman in White and loved it! With the exception of A Christmas Carol, any attempt to read Dickens for fun almost always results on me feeling like it’s a school assignment.
I read that the Lloyd Webber musical was a thing, but have not looked it up to see if it was filmed at any point.
Well worth the wait!! Fantastic as usual, Diva!
MULAN 2?! Oh man, you are gonna have a FIELD DAY with that one!!
Glad you're back, Diva! How was your break?
Duchess sounds like a name you would give a cat... or the code name you would give the world's most dangerous spy.
"I'll advise you not to get too attached". That alone earns this a thumbs up.
Yay our diva is back!
The guy from Tron and time after time and Damien is in this? Can’t be all bad oh and TMNT 2
I'm excited for the Mulan 2 review
Oh god...Duchess marries...PLEASE tell me she was older in the book and not imply what I think you're implying! I know this is the 1800's we're dealing with but give me some solace.
To be perfectly honest I love the Happiness Pie number after hearing it in full. It’s super catchy and I feel that it definitely would benefit in another musical. Also “Sport of Kings” isn’t half bad either.
Review The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
Oh GOD yes!!!
Ok Diva the final sentence for this unfathomably dull & contrived thing was honestly worth watching the entire video for. How you made this *PAINFULLY* boring movie in any way entertaining via your review is honestly impressive. Just hearing you describe the plot of this "musical" (it barely qualifies in my opinion) was difficult to get through. Plus the ending with the girl dying is just the epitome of emotionally dishonest schmaltz. Thanks for taking one for the team as this review had to be hard to get through writing/filming and yeah will be avoiding this thing from here on out. Because the worst kind of bad is the *DULL* kind of bad.
She died from tuberculosis in the original book too.
This makes James Cameron’s Avatar look interesting and exciting.
Diva somehow you nearly always upload when I am having an awful day. Thank you for making my day brighter.
You got me real good right at the end there with the superstar limo reference
I was falling asleep watching this episode. Give me the Apple and A Chorus Line any day. I'll even take the Phantom Of The Opera!
You were bored by this one too?
Well, that sure was one of the many, many, MANY things Anthony Newley did in his life...
I thoroughly enjoyed this "Case" and the beautiful and eloquent trashing of said musical. top form!
All these references to "Little Nell" and not a single Columbia joke?
I'm not sure this musical *deserves* a reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's too dull!
These are the kind of movies I love seeing you review. There’s a lot of movies that had ideas, effort and talent involved but just didn’t come together for certain reasons that vary. Even as bad as many of these are they still make great guilty pleasure watches especially with Diva’s analysis to go along.
This story doesn't sing! It sobs!
every review you do I feel like you get more insightful and entertaining. Thanks for working so hard on all your videos, Diva!
I wonder if the song "Happiness Pie" from the kids in the hall move Brain Candy came from this.
These types of Victorian England movies tend to bore me to tears anyway.
Even Oliver!? Even Sweeney Todd?
@@MelanieNLee I've never seen Sweeney Todd.
@@GPischke I'm not a big fan of the Sweeney Todd movie with Johnny Depp, though I think it's okay. However, IMO, the stage show is wonderful and one of my favorites. There are videotapes of at least three professional performances, either onstage or in concert, and I'm sure you'll find plenty of school and community productions of Sweeney Todd here on TH-cam.
@@GPischke You should. It’s certainly more entertaining than this.
Readers Digest. The unofficial Dr's Office magazine.
My auntie and uncle used to have loads of these at their house.
I can’t wait for that next case! It’ll be very entertaining seeing that travesty get destroyed!
Ooof, that’s one of Diva’s most evil punishments ever!
Ah, the mysterious gentleman! The character who is mysterious for mysterious sake.
I just realized that's David Warner as Mr. Brass... did the poor guy miss a car payment or something?
Edit: God, and they dragged Dame Gillian Lynne into this, too. This movie is a perfect storm of "you're so much better than this, what the hell?"
So many ballads!!!! I would fall asleep within seconds.
9:05 Times were VERY different back then.
Again, thanks so much for introducing me to It Couldn't Happen Here!
Also, why do a villain perspective flip musical for Daniel Quilp of all Dickens villains or antagonists? If you want to do one of these for a Dickens villain, Therese DeFarge and/or Abel Magwich are right there.
Good to have you back Diva!
Mulan II? Show no mercy for that one!
Seeing David Warner in the background feels poignant now
The same actor who played Mordred in Camelot.
Lov it-you made outstanding masterpiece~ farewell. Musical~
I think the description of Quilp's death also suits Anthony Newley's career.
So happy you're back
*sees the next case* What bunch of character backslides.
Think I’m gonna need some pepto before reading
Lovely video
I actually like the songs from Mulan 2! Like other girls was always a favorite, can’t wait to see it tho!
A song about being naive and happy and completely obvious really doesn’t work when the setting looks drab as fuck
Hey, Diva, do you think you can cover All Dogs Go to Heaven 2? That’s one of the worst animated sequels ever.
"Happiness Pie" wait, this isn't Brain Candy from Kids In The Hall!
"Send a Lawyer" sounds way too much like "The Life I Lead" from Mary Poppins, which came out 11 prior lmao
I thought I was the only one who noticed that!
I noticed that! Did the Sherman brothers ever sue?
Alright Michael Hordern as grandfather should be counted as a saving grace
Welcome back, Diva!
"What have you done with my. Gold. /Trent/." It's godawful, but Mr. Quilp's expressions kill me. Edit: Look, I get Britain is small, but surely they could've found 2 different-looking enough actors for Quilp and Swiveler. Edit #2: Also, one of my favorite pieces of Victorian trivia is that the Old Curiosity Shop was originally a British newspaper serial that spread internationally, and Americans would wait for incoming ships from across the pond to dock so they could ask its passengers if Nell was dead yet.
A lot of them, were broken hearted when they found out she did die.
Hell they were climbing up Dickens' fence AS HE WAS STILL WRITING THE CHAPTER begging and screaming to his window for him to not kill Little Nell off.
@@MsSarahJosephine Pop culture was so much more cerebral then. Now we have the Kardashians.
tom sawyer and huckleberry finn didn't the sherman brothers do those
Sounds like Anthony was trying to graft Willy Wonka's score onto this...it didn't work, Tony!
Fun fact when the book was being written in serial form and bring brought to America when the final chapter came there were people waiting for the boat and yelling is Nell dead yet ?true story😂 and what was with that line I wouldn’t treat a monkey the way they treated me what the hell 🤪
Is it just me, or do the songs sounds like they're trying way too hard to be My Fair Lady? Kit's final song sounds like a more overdramatic version of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"!
"The Duchess"?! Didn't they think audiences would understand the term "Marchioness"?
Duchess also makes me think of Genesis's song about the rise and fall of a female rock singer.
I know that marchioness is feminine for marquis, but I really don't know what a marquis is, and I'm 65 years old.
Newley did the original rendition of Goldfingers
Interesting to see all those old British actors.
DEH movie review when
Why does Swiveler look like Dave Foley?
I loved to watch Kids In The Hall!
This movie was the definition of DULL. No interesting stuff here to be found.
I think the only good this could do is if someone can’t sleep, they can put this on and they would fall asleep fast.
This looks pretty dull and uninteresting. Unlike the next case, that should be fun!
Mulan 2. Good luck!