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"POLDARK" SERIES ONE (2015): EPISODES FIVE TO EIGHT

Within the past year, I had developed a major interest in author Winston Graham's 1945-2002 "POLDARK" literary saga and the two 텔레비전 adaptations of it. Series One of the 초 adaptation produced 의해 Debbie Horsfield, premiered on the BBC (in Great Britain) and PBS (in the United States) last year. Consisting of eight episodes, Series One of "POLDARK" was an adaptation of 1945's "Ross Poldark - A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787" and "Demelza - A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790".
Whereas Episodes One to Four adapted the 1945 novel, Episodes...

"PERSUASION" (1971) Review

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

As many 팬 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...

"BLANCHE FURY" (1948) Review

I suspect that many 팬 of costume dramas would be fascinated to know about the series of period dramas released 의해 the British film industry during the post-World War II era. A good number of those films were released 의해 a British film studio known as Gainsborough Pictures. But not all of them were released through this particular studio. Some were released through other studios 또는 production companies . . . like the 1948 period drama, "BLANCHE FURY".

Based upon the 1939 novel written 의해 Marjorie Bowen (under the pseudonym of Joseph Stearling), "BLANCHE FURY" told...

"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" (1934) Review

I have seen only two versions of Alexandre Dumas père's 1845 novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo" in my past - the 1975 텔레비전 version with Richard Chamberlain and the 2002 디즈니 film with James Cavielzel. While 읽기 a good number of 기사 about the movie versions of the novel, I came across numerous praises for the 1934 adaptation that starred Robert Donat. And since I happened to like Dumas' story so much, I decided to see how much I would like this older version.

Set between the last months of the Napoleonic Wars and the 1830s, "THE COUNT...