Several people in the comments do not like and/or don’t understand what it is about. Maybe watch the newer version of Wings of a Dove with Helena Bonham Carter. It is a beautiful movie.
Indeed - an older version than the 1997 film and thank goodness. A silk smooth feast of Henry James, morally compelling in his usual psychological and nuanced treatment of an impossible situation. As it happens, I'm very fond of many in the cast and relish their performances. John Castle, Suzanne Bertish, Elizabeth Spriggs. This is literary and period television adaptation when they knew what they were doing and had an audience that appreciated it. Thank you for the posting.
"Gentler times" when white families picnicked under trees with Black lynching victims hanging from them, when women were considered hysterical children and "children should be seen and not heard" 🙄
An impressive condensation, does a good job of keeping the flavor of James. The wordplay is exquisite although it often doesn't feel natural; yet there are moments that stand out as poignantly true.
I kinda like the old-timey "mystery illness" trope where the beautiful heroine shows no symptoms at all until her dramatic but altogether decorative demise 😄
oh, thank you, so much. i saw it this morning, again and came to think that it was a love story between Ms.Theale and Mr. Densher. The author might have plotted the novel, after building two characters.
I enjoyed this version but I already understood the plot and reasoning behind the characters. it might have helped to emphasise how Kate wanted money and had a plan to use her wealthy friend's illness and the fact she was also in love with Mr Denture to achieve her own ends. She encourages her fiance to romance and marry her friend so that following her death he inherits a fortune and then they can marry and enjoy it after. She starts out feeling in control but her own guilt and love for her friend begin to cause her anxiety and she knows this is the same for Mr Denture to whom she is secretly engaged. By the time her friend dies and selflessly gives everything to the two people she is closest to, their love has become tainted and guilt ridden. Kate has achieved her ambition but paid the price for a Pyrrhic victory. I'm not sure if this version clearly puts that across if you don't already know the story. Henry James has a beautiful writing style but you may prefer to read it in bite sized pieces because it is richly laden and dense in its imagery and context. The first few pages of "The Portrait of a Lady" feel like a feast of English literature and blow you away!
sorry such spoon feeding as you want, is not in spirit of henry james. though it was done in 1997 movie, one of the faults in that mostly very good movie.
John Castle is superb here.! As always !! How and why he never became a huge star I shall never understand..! Today we have David Tenant and Paul Mescal as our " leading actors "....?!?! Words fail me......
Chaim: It certainly is! It has been said that this is probably the most complex of James' novels. I managed to get through 4 chapters before giving up. Apparently, Helena Bonham Carter who played in a later version of Wings of the Dove had to give up too. However, I will try again, (sometime). Best of luck and I agree Wonder Gal's English seems fine to me. Cheers.
Greed for money does anybody no good at all. So cheap with her scheme. Imagine goading your own sweetheart to pay attention to a rich dying woman to have a share in her wealth when she dies. Pawning somebody's feelings and emotions cost you a lot in the end.
Very interesting concept of intrigue . Time and time ? Can y spot Mrs Louder the Aunt from here to the Sense and Senseability of the 90s time moved but talent remains.👌🏾🌷👼🏿🙍🏽💕✌🏿🦹🏾♂️🧕🏿
Great production & acting, but - and it's not its fault - doesn't even come close to James' novel. This to the novel WINGS is as a trailer is to an entire movie. (The last scene alone is a mutilating mash of two crucial & entirely separate episodes!)
when someone steeps so low to go on a mission for money of course they won't go back to where they were. One is, coz they need the money two is they have lost their soul. Maybe they loved each other deeply to do such a heinous thing in order to be together, but when the other realizes the truth then there is no future for that couple. The guy is guilty they manipulated a sick woman and girl is heart broken coz her man fell in love with someone else.
Made no sense to me....it was like : what really happened ? Vanity of vanities ....a chasing after the wind... Lord Mark was the only honest person but that foolish dying girl refused him ! What could be sadder than refusing someone's love and worse still - to love someone who doesn't love you, actually. It is better to be loved than to love.... that is proven thoroughly here.
This is 'Acting by Numbers' --- maybe impossible to do justice to the power & originality of the novel..... I quote Millie directly 'I give & give --- stick to me as close as you like, & see if I don't -- but what I can't do is bargain'. 💔
The only one who was an irresistible cad was Montgomery Clift in "Washington Square." Only it was called "The Heiress." Maybe Greg Wise in "Sense and Sensibility." The character who had "Sense" won!
Glad I am doing something else as this is playing or I would have truly wasted my time. What is wrong with this lady. This movie is someone having a lot to say but yet nothing at all.
Thank You very kind thing to Say there are many good actors, actresses , British actors do e4xtensive tt5aining and many do stage productions which just have to be absolutely perfect . Their USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ALSO IS A GREAT REDEEMER FOR ACTING .
You say " there are " many fine actors.. Sadly you ought to have said. " there WERE " many fine actors. At THAT time. !..They had all.spent many years in Rep theatre learning their craft before appearing on screen.. Unlike today's crop who simply go from drama school to screen !! Our leading actors today are Paul Mescal and David Tennant..?!?!? Need I say more ?
John Castle is at least 10 years too old for this role. The whole thing is so stilted and artificial it destroys any plausibility in James' good story about real people.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
For a movie to incorporate all the background detail contained in the novel it would have to go on for at least 20 or 30 hours. Why would you expect an 80 minute dramatisation to comprise all the detail of a novel?
English love affairs are complicated and evil sometimes. The guy was led to live a sick woman whom he felt with and his relationship with his love died, that evil in my eyes why would I attempt the man I love or a man attempt the woman he love, loving that dying girl was normal
you have to be born in england to understand shis drama its like when I watched north and south I could not quite understand that so what you can turn it of and watch something else
Marvelous cast. Elizabeth Spriggs is brilliant in every role she plays. Cheers!
Nothing can compare to British actors and storytelling in my humble opinion
What a feast of acting . No boring overly long introductions to the movie. It just leaps into it which is great
Excellent play and a stellar cast! BBC never lets me down ❤
Regrettably, today's BBC lets us down daily but back then it was perfection!
Indeed ! An acting masterclass from all involved.!
Suzanne Bertish is gorgeous! Wow! The acting of Elizabeth Spriggs is phenomenal too!
And Suzanne Bertish is an awesome swords person, too. Frfr.
Several people in the comments do not like and/or don’t understand what it is about. Maybe watch the newer version of Wings of a Dove with Helena Bonham Carter. It is a beautiful movie.
Indeed - an older version than the 1997 film and thank goodness. A silk smooth feast of Henry James, morally compelling in his usual psychological and nuanced treatment of an impossible situation. As it happens, I'm very fond of many in the cast and relish their performances. John Castle, Suzanne Bertish, Elizabeth Spriggs. This is literary and period television adaptation when they knew what they were doing and had an audience that appreciated it. Thank you for the posting.
Excellent, excellent. Such performances. Totally wonderful.
God I love to see Lizzie Spriggs in anything. Fantastic actor, comedienne and singer.
This is beautiful, acting was so raw and real back then!
Thank you so much for posting drama depicting gentler times as opposed to the propaganda times we are living through in 2020/2021...........
Update: the fascist times we are still living through in 2024 and going foreward.
"Gentler times" when white families picnicked under trees with Black lynching victims hanging from them, when women were considered hysterical children and "children should be seen and not heard" 🙄
These ppl are as conniving as you get..lies, games,propaganda, manipulation. Dirty rich. Greed.
Not much different aside from the internet
I don't want to burst your bubble, but these were not gentler times. 😅
@@code-52 What was meant that Hollywood wasn't spoiling films by their 'woke' agenda, bad language and obsession with violence.
This is one of the BBC Play of the Month that ran from 1965 to 1983. There were 121 episodes and more random ones are coming out on TH-cam 👍👍👍
Impressively performed and presented in all respects!
An impressive condensation, does a good job of keeping the flavor of James. The wordplay is exquisite although it often doesn't feel natural; yet there are moments that stand out as poignantly true.
Have only seen the HBC version so this is great--TY
That was very well done. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Quality dramas. Don't get this kind of TV serials any more except for those Super Heroes rubbish being churned out on TV and in the cinemas...
I love Milly character. Sweet kind heart.
Thank you for uploading this.
Tolstoy said a gentleman will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. Which makes Milly a very great lady indeed.
I kinda like the old-timey "mystery illness" trope where the beautiful heroine shows no symptoms at all until her dramatic but altogether decorative demise 😄
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oh, thank you, so much.
wonderful stories with fabulous casts.
oh, thank you, so much.
i saw it this morning, again and came to think that it was a love story between Ms.Theale and Mr. Densher. The author might have plotted the novel, after building two characters.
Excellent -Thank-you . I love these costume dramas by the BBC.
In the end their scheme gained them nothing.
Wonderful production!
I liked this film, thanks for posting.
Phenomenal Elizabeth Spriggs!.................sorely missed.
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I enjoyed this version but I already understood the plot and reasoning behind the characters. it might have helped to emphasise how Kate wanted money and had a plan to use her wealthy friend's illness and the fact she was also in love with Mr Denture to achieve her own ends. She encourages her fiance to romance and marry her friend so that following her death he inherits a fortune and then they can marry and enjoy it after. She starts out feeling in control but her own guilt and love for her friend begin to cause her anxiety and she knows this is the same for Mr Denture to whom she is secretly engaged. By the time her friend dies and selflessly gives everything to the two people she is closest to, their love has become tainted and guilt ridden. Kate has achieved her ambition but paid the price for a Pyrrhic victory. I'm not sure if this version clearly puts that across if you don't already know the story. Henry James has a beautiful writing style but you may prefer to read it in bite sized pieces because it is richly laden and dense in its imagery and context. The first few pages of "The Portrait of a Lady" feel like a feast of English literature and blow you away!
sorry such spoon feeding as you want, is not in spirit of henry james. though it was done in 1997 movie, one of the faults in that mostly very good movie.
Turn of the Screw
This was magnificent.
Excellent.Quality.Thankyou.
John Castle is superb here.! As always !! How and why he never became a
huge star I shall never understand..! Today we have David Tenant and Paul
Mescal as our " leading actors "....?!?! Words fail me......
thank u very much, - very good decores and costumes, and interesting characters
"O WHAT TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTISE TO DECEIVE " (Walter Scott)
When you finish a movie having not understood anything clearly shows how English is truly not ones first language (THAT'S ME!), off I go to wikipedia
Chaim: It certainly is! It has been said that this is probably the most complex of James' novels. I managed to get through 4 chapters before giving up. Apparently, Helena Bonham Carter who played in a later version of Wings of the Dove had to give up too. However, I will try again, (sometime). Best of luck and I agree Wonder Gal's English seems fine to me. Cheers.
I admire you for the efforts that you take to learn and understand things! Kudos to you; very admirable!
English is my first language. Heck I need an encyclopedia.
Candle light is so much softer.apart from small critism its great
What a tangled web we weave.
Quality story and actors/actresses.
Its great but the unatural lights are very noticable
This is one of the saddest stories that I know
Brilliant production!
Belle De Caucase was
Wow! I had the 1997's version starring Helena Bonham Carter. I didn't know it was a remake.
Eleanor of Toledo by Bronzino at 1.21..............lovely.
Greed for money does anybody no good at all. So cheap with her scheme. Imagine goading your own sweetheart to pay attention to a rich dying woman to have a share in her wealth when she dies. Pawning somebody's feelings and emotions cost you a lot in the end.
Another British film good cast
Excellent. Thank you
Love it...ty fpr the share
Very interesting concept of intrigue . Time and time ? Can y spot Mrs Louder the Aunt from here to the Sense and Senseability of the 90s time moved but talent remains.👌🏾🌷👼🏿🙍🏽💕✌🏿🦹🏾♂️🧕🏿
Great production & acting, but - and it's not its fault - doesn't even come close to James' novel. This to the novel WINGS is as a trailer is to an entire movie. (The last scene alone is a mutilating mash of two crucial & entirely separate episodes!)
when someone steeps so low to go on a mission for money of course they won't go back to where they were. One is, coz they need the money two is they have lost their soul. Maybe they loved each other deeply to do such a heinous thing in order to be together, but when the other realizes the truth then there is no future for that couple. The guy is guilty they manipulated a sick woman and girl is heart broken coz her man fell in love with someone else.
So true. Their future died with Millie.
The perils of passion.
Gee, hard to tell where Kate's devious nature comes from....
Made no sense to me....it was like : what really happened ? Vanity of vanities ....a chasing after the wind... Lord Mark was the only honest person but that foolish dying girl refused him ! What could be sadder than refusing someone's love and worse still - to love someone who doesn't love you, actually. It is better to be loved than to love.... that is proven thoroughly here.
This is 'Acting by Numbers' --- maybe impossible to do justice to the power & originality of the novel..... I quote Millie directly 'I give & give --- stick to me as close as you like, & see if I don't -- but what I can't do is bargain'. 💔
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Could someone please tell me what is that wonderful music at the opening credits? Is it Schumann?
+Sergio Uribe
Brahms Intermezzo in E flat Opus 1
Brahms Intermezzo in E flat, Opus 1
The only one who was an irresistible cad was Montgomery Clift in "Washington Square." Only it was called "The Heiress."
Maybe Greg Wise in "Sense and Sensibility."
The character who had "Sense" won!
Entertaining, even though such contrived rapidly delivered lines
so marvelous indeed! I EJOYED IT VERY MUCH!
Brit is Best...but once in awhile my old ears can't understand a word spoken by (a very few) of them😊
Glad I am doing something else as this is playing or I would have truly wasted my time. What is wrong with this lady. This movie is someone having a lot to say but yet nothing at all.
Be careful for what you wish for, you just might get it.
How could the doctor arrive from london to italy ? it will take at least 16 hours using a car I don't understand
do you have the series on BBC called "The Casserlys"? I believe it was in 1996
The Cazalets by chance? Brilliant!
It is on TH-cam.
@@CathieWhitlock I can’t find it.
No CC.....I am deaf! sorry
Got to hand it to the English, they can act... makes our Celebtards look even more inept
Thank You very kind thing to Say there are many good actors, actresses , British actors do e4xtensive tt5aining and many do stage productions which just have to be absolutely perfect .
Their USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ALSO IS A GREAT REDEEMER FOR ACTING .
You say " there are " many fine actors..
Sadly you ought to have said. " there WERE "
many fine actors. At THAT time. !..They had all.spent many years in Rep theatre learning their craft before appearing on screen..
Unlike today's crop who simply go from drama school to screen !!
Our leading actors today are Paul Mescal
and David Tennant..?!?!? Need I say more ?
Thus time period, had harsh realities for women. Glad I live in 2st century.
lol 😂
John Castle is at least 10 years too old for this role. The whole thing is so stilted and artificial it destroys any plausibility in James' good story about real people.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
lol--not a bad description of much of James's later, gorgeous novels
I didn't like it. The movie, this version, lacks so much of the background as told by Henry James in his book. It's like a rainstorm without the rain.
For a movie to incorporate all the background detail contained in the novel it would have to go on for at least 20 or 30 hours. Why would you expect an 80 minute dramatisation to comprise all the detail of a novel?
It was a TV production and thus somewhat constrained in the scenery department.
Mr. Densham looks like jamie oliver
Mettete i sottotitoli grazie ❤❤❤❤❤
Kate and Lord Melton or whatever his name is better matched. Kate is like her Aunt, mercenary and does not mind selling the man she loves. Horrible.
Such intrigue...
I love the devious tricks here hehehe!
馬毛ブラシはどちらのブランドでしょうか？
It can be any brand. Used now for paint brushes.
Entertaining
More like a play
Thanks
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Mm rather silly and convoluted, I thought.
The actress playing Ms Thesle... doesn't sound American....😊 just my opinion
BBC Play of the Month..(S14E05).Wings of the Dove.1979.Elizabeth Spriggs. Betsy Blair. )_1h21_ .
Que mala esa Catherine cookson borrar todos sus videos
English love affairs are complicated and evil sometimes. The guy was led to live a sick woman whom he felt with and his relationship with his love died, that evil in my eyes why would I attempt the man I love or a man attempt the woman he love, loving that dying girl was normal
Evil mercenary clever crypt keeper wasp euros...thank you for documenting your perfidies
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The nasal speech delivery is most unpleasant.
doug foote
Ha, falsetto-nasel
what in the world is wrong with that women....smh...shes so weird
+jojo2be1 She's a creation of Henry James, that might explain it!!!
lol
i have no understanding of what happened in this movie
+jojo2be1 that is because you are not english
+danny thomas henry james was american
you are ignorant as hell, and a basement dwelling waste of space!
weird ass trying to insult someone one
Exactly, thank you!
you have to be born in england to understand shis drama its like when I watched north and south I could not quite understand that so what you can turn it of and watch something else
I confused this for another, much better version of Henry James many layered story. I found this to be stilted and unnatural.
Kate has no soul
This movie doesn’t make sense
Idiotic plot, not at all believable.
A very poor story line.
Horrible…. Depressing …. Melodrama,,,,
Wasted 1hr 20mins. Couldn't understand the plot from start to finish. Very disappointing
Crappy acting
Who wrote this $#%^?
Henry James an absolutely brilliant writer , however the acting is in this case good but not up to par .
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Boring....
Bla Bla Bla, non stop, about nothing........
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