Check out all of the posts tagged with "1790s".
David Niven makes an affable if not inspired Scarlet Pimpernel (aka British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney) in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s costly, colourful 1950 film The Elusive Pimpernel. David Niven makes an affable if […]
Writer-director Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. It’s a minor work and it can’t help being a minor film. But Stillman tries all he can and knows to make a success of it, with good, highly civilised, polished results […]
English aristocrats Sir Rodney Ffing (Sidney James) and Lord Darcy Pue (Jim Dale) join the French Revolution, in the 1967 British Carry On comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head. ‘Carry On laughing until you have […]
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