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Ponied up three bags of gold Married hot princess for dowerless maidens (granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...
Compared to the shame which heaped upon Tennessee when its laws were found Dowerless to prevent child marriages (TIME, Feb. 15),* a domestic relations case up last week in California brought obloquy far deeper & darker. The story reminded newsreaders of the powerful poetry of California's Robinson Jeffers, whose plots of incest the polite public shrinks from as wilful departures from reality...
...time Kerry's Destiny Bay runs against Marie's Wings in the Derby. Her Spanish fiancé, Diego (Teddy Underdown), has claimed her and she would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed that Wings was going to be disqualified, leaving her dowerless. When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream. But now Marie does not mind. As a bonus with the first color picture produced in England, Producer Robert T. Kane has tossed in some songs by John McCormack, given famed Derby Jockey...
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