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Old 07-10-2008, 08:56 PM
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Other than Olivier in "Lady Hamilton" (AKA "That Hamilton Woman") have there been other on screen depictions of Lord Nelson ?

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Horatio Nelson (Character)
over at the IMDb

although I'm afraid all I could think of was Jimmy Thompson in Carry on Jack...
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I think that was the first thought of every one of us 'What will they say at the Admiralty, Sir?'
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Peter Finch played Nelson in Bequest to the Nation with Glenda Jackson as Emma Hamilton!
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Wicked Lady is that a flick or a TV Job ?
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Film - but I think it had a different title in the US.
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Us title is The Nelson Affair.
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Cheers to you both, Wicked Lady and Wadsy. Is it any good ?
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I was reading that Napoleon has never had a proper mainstream movie made, just about him.

You'd think both he and Horatio would be ideal material for a Sex-n-Power Epic movie, with a cast of a thousand and one giga-bytes.

Better than a remake of The Dambusters anyhow............

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Cheers to you both, Wicked Lady and Wadsy. Is it any good ?

Peter Finch was fab (as always) but Glenda was a tad....er....unconvincing as Emma Hamilton. Mind you it was about 500 years ago that I saw it.

As for Napoleon having a mainstream movie - surely the French have done one, Moor Larkin?
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With regard to Bonaparte, there's a very famous silent isn't there ? Also Kubrick was preparing a flick, but apparently abandoned it when "Waterloo" went into prduction, or was released - I'm not sure which. A Nelson flick could obviously be wonderful, but I would imagine the production costs prohibitive. It can't be cheap to film at sea (enter stage right the didgital effects demons).
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I was reading that Napoleon has never had a proper mainstream movie made, just about him.
Abel Gance's Napoleon is pretty much about Napoleon ....



.... and don't forget Marlon Brando's epic portrayal in Desiree.

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.... and don't forget Marlon Brando's epic portrayal in Desiree.

God knows I've tried to.....
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There was also that TV 'doc.' I think it was about Napoleon's last days on St Helena and the suggestion that he had been deliberately poisoned.
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I really liked The Emperor's New Clothes in which Napoleon escapes from St Helena and organises a battle between rival fruit and veg sellers in Paris.
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