The Lady and the Highwayman
by John Hough
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Actor: Claire Bloom, Emma Samms, Hugh Grant, Michael York, Oliver ReedDirector: John Hough
Brand: WESTLAKE ENTERTAINMENT INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Digital Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1989-01-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Westlake Ent. Group
Movie Reviews of The Lady and the Highwayman
Movie Review: swords, kings, busting boosoms, and Hugh Grant
Summary: 3 Stars
I first saw this movie years ago on tv as a teen. I remember my friend thinking Hugh Grant was soooo cute, I remember thinking, is she serious ... "does she need glasses?"
Well Hugh Grant became so popular, but this movie was made prior to this. I love Hugh Grants movies.
I don't think it is meant to be taken seriously. So if you enter, don't expect a literary classic turned movie of the week.
This movie makes me laugh and laugh, it is so cheesy and so 80's. So much of the time Grant looks bewildered and confused(possibly drugged?), or barely with a pulse of excitement. The women are dramatic with their bossoms busting out of their corsettes as they tilt over and fan rapidly. I'm telling you, that fan was whipping wildly! LOL...
This movie and whether it appeals to you is dependant greatly on your mood. But although I give only 3 stars due to lack of visual clarity, I wouldn't recommend it if it didn't genuinely make me snicker.
Summary of The Lady and the Highwayman
LADY AND THE HIGHWAYMAN THE (DVD MOVIE)The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatizations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made her unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins, and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills, and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material. --Piers Ford
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