Margaret Lockwood DVD Collection!

[CaptainWaggett]

Highly Dangerous is on Film4 for the 354th time on Thursday March 27th. It's worth seeing if you like the idea of Lockwood as the World's Greatest Living Expert on Fruitflies though like so many British films from the period it has a tedious American B-lister as co-star.

I assume the Smith estate (I wonder who they are - she didn't have any close relatives) objected to the DO being adapted quite a bit from the play which isn't really about the Margaret Lockwood character at all. But one has to wonder at people who would turn down the free money just because someone who has been dead for 20 years didn't like the adaptation. It's not as if 101 Dalmatians has much to do with the book!

[Windthrop]

Originally Posted by batman I quite like Trouble in the Glen ... it may be a bit creaky but it is entertaining. Trent's Last Case however is IMHO a very good film with Lockwood, Wilding and McCallum working well together. Welles is an absolute hoot in this as well.

TITG is just bizarre - the Old Vic doesn't know where to place his accent. By the same writer a The Quiet Man, it's almost an attempt at a scottish version. TLC isn't bad, and shouldn't be given the novels reputation. ML wasn't given many favours with her Wilcox films except being given the chance to appear opposite Welles (who is always interesting and charismatic). The feeble American male leads tend to let the films down IMHO. I know the films were made to release American money in this country but often the stars who came over were rarely of Welles calibre - Forrest Tucker et al.

Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett Highly Dangerous is on Film4 for the 354th time on Thursday March 27th. It's worth seeing if you like the idea of Lockwood as the World's Greatest Living Expert on Fruitflies though like so many British films from the period it has a tedious American B-lister as co-star. I assume the Smith estate (I wonder who they are - she didn't have any close relatives) objected to the DO being adapted quite a bit from the play which isn't really about the Margaret Lockwood character at all. But one has to wonder at people who would turn down the free money just because someone who has been dead for 20 years didn't like the adaptation. It's not as if 101 Dalmatians has much to do with the book!

ML must have liked the the play because she was in a highly successful stage version in the 60s opposite Richard Todd.

[orpheum]

Trouble in the Glenn has been shown very recently on i think Channel 4