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[lost_spook]

1. In Yuletide, I see that TWO people have offered the 1968 Dracula. I am all faint with the shock. I would have been matchable with just my three nominated super-obscure fandoms! (But possibly difficult.) In celebration, I removed one of my other requests. I was worrying about maybe not wanting it quite as much as the others - and two other

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[sallymn]

She really was lovely - I found and saved the 1945 The Wicked Lady of hers (found it when I was chasing up the endearingly awful film version of Heyer's Reluctant Widow) but have't watched it yet...

[lost_spook]

Yes, she was - and she's got plenty of character and strength in her, too, which makes all the difference. :-)

I still haven't got to The Wicked Lady. I decided to watch the films in the boxset in chronological order, so next up is either Love Story or Give Us The Moon, and then The Wicked Lady!

[sallymn]

I'll be fascinated to hear what you think {eg}

[lost_spook]

I think you can safely count on me telling you all. :-)

[shannonsequitur]

There's an endearingly awful film version of The Reluctant Widow?! Why didn't I know about this?

[sallymn]

It's on youtube in 8 parts...

I do rather wish they'd take up some of the best of her comedies, maybe for TV - done right, they would be splendid fun.

[shannonsequitur]

Yeah, I would really like to see some Brit TV adaptations-maybe using the Sherlock etc. format of batches of three 90-minute (or two-hour if I'm feeling greedy) films at a time.