Wednesday, 1 April 2009

That Hamilton Woman (1941), Alexander Korda

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034272/


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Tells a lifestory a british woman who gets mixed up, via marriage and other things, with Napoleon's war. Hugely patriotic, must be done to boost Britain's troops and common folks during the war time. Leigh does fantastic job as a bit melodramatic and poor-turned rich-turned poor again fancy lady as Olivier struggles with a bad wig and pompeous army costume. Still maybe the best of all the collaborations the Oliviers made together on-screen.

2 comments:

  1. That part sounds like total custom-fit Vivien Leigh material :), I could def watch this for her alone. Lol at the Olivier struggle comment. And congrats for making and actual functional imdb link, unlike mine haha.

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  2. We may need to find a way to differentiate tag ratings by user. Or not :). I mean we've never actually rated the same film so far, let's see how that goes when it happens :).

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