The Wings of the Dove (1979)
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
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This is an older tv version of the 1997 movie.
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
Elizabeth Spriggs ... Maud Lowder
Betsy Blair ... Susan Stringham
John Castle ... Merton Densher
Suzanne Bertish ... Kate Croy
Lisa Eichhorn ... Milly Theale
What a feast of acting . No boring overly long introductions to the movie. It just leaps into it which is great
Nothing can compare to British actors and storytelling in my humble opinion
Marvelous cast. Elizabeth Spriggs is brilliant in every role she plays. Cheers!
God I love to see Lizzie Spriggs in anything. Fantastic actor, comedienne and singer.
Several people in the comments do not like and/or don’t understand what it is about. Maybe watch the newer version of Wings of a Dove with Helena Bonham Carter. It is a beautiful movie.
Suzanne Bertish is gorgeous! Wow! The acting of Elizabeth Spriggs is phenomenal too!
And Suzanne Bertish is an awesome swords person, too. Frfr.
Thank you so much for posting drama depicting gentler times as opposed to the propaganda times we are living through in 2020/2021...........
Update: the fascist times we are still living through in 2024 and going foreward.
"Gentler times" when white families picnicked under trees with Black lynching victims hanging from them, when women were considered hysterical children and "children should be seen and not heard" 🙄
These ppl are as conniving as you get..lies, games,propaganda, manipulation. Dirty rich. Greed.
Not much different aside from the internet
I don't want to burst your bubble, but these were not gentler times. 😅
@@code-52 What was meant that Hollywood wasn't spoiling films by their 'woke' agenda, bad language and obsession with violence.
This is one of the BBC Play of the Month that ran from 1965 to 1983. There were 121 episodes and more random ones are coming out on CZcams 👍👍👍
Indeed - an older version than the 1997 film and thank goodness. A silk smooth feast of Henry James, morally compelling in his usual psychologic and nuanced treatment of an impossible situation. As it happens, I'm very fond of many in the cast and relish their performances. John Castle, Suzanne Bertish, Elizabeth Spriggs. This is literary and period television adaptation when they knew what they were doing and had an audience that appreciated it. Thank you for the posting.
Tolstoy said a gentleman will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. Which makes Milly a very great lady indeed.
This is beautiful, acting was so raw and real back then!
Excellent, excellent. Such performances. Totally wonderful.
Excellent play and a stellar cast! BBC never lets me down ❤
Regrettably, today's BBC lets us down daily but back then it was perfection!
Indeed ! An acting masterclass from all involved.!
Impressively performed and presented in all respects!
I kinda like the old-timey "mystery illness" trope where the beautiful heroine shows no symptoms at all until her dramatic but altogether decorative demise 😄
Por favor pueden ponerla en Español?
I love Milly character. Sweet kind heart.
Phenomenal Elizabeth Spriggs!.................sorely missed.
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An impressive condensation, does a good job of keeping the flavor of James. The wordplay is exquisite although it often doesn't feel natural; yet there are moments that stand out as poignantly true.
Excellent -Thank-you . I love these costume dramas by the BBC.
oh, thank you, so much.
wonderful stories with fabulous casts.
oh, thank you, so much.
i saw it this morning, again and came to think that it was a love story between Ms.Theale and Mr. Densher. The author might have plotted the novel, after building two characters.
Thank you for uploading this.
That was very well done. Thank you so much for sharing it.
In the end their scheme gained them nothing.
Wonderful production!
John Castle is superb here.! As always !! How and why he never became a
huge star I shall never understand..! Today we have David Tenant and Paul
Mescal as our " leading actors "....?!?! Words fail me......
Quality dramas. Don't get this kind of TV serials any more except for those Super Heroes rubbish being churned out on TV and in the cinemas...
I liked this film, thanks for posting.
"O WHAT TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTISE TO DECEIVE " (Walter Scott)
I enjoyed this version but I already understood the plot and reasoning behind the characters. it might have helped to emphasise how Kate wanted money and had a plan to use her wealthy friend's illness and the fact she was also in love with Mr Denture to achieve her own ends. She encourages her fiance to romance and marry her friend so that following her death he inherits a fortune and then they can marry and enjoy it after. She starts out feeling in control but her own guilt and love for her friend begin to cause her anxiety and she knows this is the same for Mr Denture to whom she is secretly engaged. By the time her friend dies and selflessly gives everything to the two people she is closest to, their love has become tainted and guilt ridden. Kate has achieved her ambition but paid the price for a Pyrrhic victory. I'm not sure if this version clearly puts that across if you don't already know the story. Henry James has a beautiful writing style but you may prefer to read it in bite sized pieces because it is richly laden and dense in its imagery and context. The first few pages of "The Portrait of a Lady" feel like a feast of English literature and blow you away!
sorry such spoon feeding as you want, is not in spirit of henry james. though it was done in 1997 movie, one of the faults in that mostly very good movie.
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Excellent.Quality.Thankyou.
thank u very much, - very good decores and costumes, and interesting characters
Have only seen the HBC version so this is great--TY
Candle light is so much softer.apart from small critism its great
Wow! I had the 1997's version starring Helena Bonham Carter. I didn't know it was a remake.
When you finish a movie having not understood anything clearly shows how English is truly not ones first language (THAT'S ME!), off I go to wikipedia
Chaim: It certainly is! It has been said that this is probably the most complex of James' novels. I managed to get through 4 chapters before giving up. Apparently, Helena Bonham Carter who played in a later version of Wings of the Dove had to give up too. However, I will try again, (sometime). Best of luck and I agree Wonder Gal's English seems fine to me. Cheers.
I admire you for the efforts that you take to learn and understand things! Kudos to you; very admirable!
English is my first language. Heck I need an encyclopedia.
Love it...ty fpr the share
Eleanor of Toledo by Bronzino at 1.21..............lovely.
What a tangled web we weave.
Very interesting concept of intrigue . Time and time ? Can y spot Mrs Louder the Aunt from here to the Sense and Senseability of the 90s time moved but talent remains.👌🏾🌷👼🏿🙍🏽💕✌🏿🦹🏾♂️🧕🏿
Greed for money does anybody no good at all. So cheap with her scheme. Imagine goading your own sweetheart to pay attention to a rich dying woman to have a share in her wealth when she dies. Pawning somebody's feelings and emotions cost you a lot in the end.
This is one of the saddest stories that I know
Brilliant production!
Belle De Caucase was
This was magnificent.
The perils of passion.
Excellent. Thank you
Be careful for what you wish for, you just might get it.
Entertaining, even though such contrived rapidly delivered lines
Its great but the unatural lights are very noticable
when someone steeps so low to go on a mission for money of course they won't go back to where they were. One is, coz they need the money two is they have lost their soul. Maybe they loved each other deeply to do such a heinous thing in order to be together, but when the other realizes the truth then there is no future for that couple. The guy is guilty they manipulated a sick woman and girl is heart broken coz her man fell in love with someone else.
So true. Their future died with Millie.
Another British film good cast
so marvelous indeed! I EJOYED IT VERY MUCH!
Could someone please tell me what is that wonderful music at the opening credits? Is it Schumann?
+Sergio Uribe
Brahms Intermezzo in E flat Opus 1
Brahms Intermezzo in E flat, Opus 1
Great production & acting, but - and it's not its fault - doesn't even come close to James' novel. This to the novel WINGS is as a trailer is to an entire movie. (The last scene alone is a mutilating mash of two crucial & entirely separate episodes!)
This is 'Acting by Numbers' --- maybe impossible to do justice to the power & originality of the novel..... I quote Millie directly 'I give & give --- stick to me as close as you like, & see if I don't -- but what I can't do is bargain'. 💔
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The only one who was an irresistible cad was Montgomery Clift in "Washington Square." Only it was called "The Heiress."
Maybe Greg Wise in "Sense and Sensibility."
The character who had "Sense" won!
Brit is Best...but once in awhile my old ears can't understand a word spoken by (a very few) of them😊
Made no sense to me....it was like : what really happened ? Vanity of vanities ....a chasing after the wind... Lord Mark was the only honest person but that foolish dying girl refused him ! What could be sadder than refusing someone's love and worse still - to love someone who doesn't love you, actually. It is better to be loved than to love.... that is proven thoroughly here.
Gee, hard to tell where Kate's devious nature comes from....
John Castle is at least 10 years too old for this role. The whole thing is so stilted and artificial it destroys any plausibility in James' good story about real people.
How could the doctor arrive from london to italy ? it will take at least 16 hours using a car I don't understand
do you have the series on BBC called "The Casserlys"? I believe it was in 1996
The Cazalets by chance? Brilliant!
It is on CZcams.
@@user-gk5rg4pq5x I can’t find it.
Thus time period, had harsh realities for women. Glad I live in 2st century.
lol 😂
Glad I am doing something else as this is playing or I would have truly wasted my time. What is wrong with this lady. This movie is someone having a lot to say but yet nothing at all.
Got to hand it to the English, they can act... makes our Celebtards look even more inept
Thank You very kind thing to Say there are many good actors, actresses , British actors do e4xtensive tt5aining and many do stage productions which just have to be absolutely perfect .
Their USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ALSO IS A GREAT REDEEMER FOR ACTING .
No CC.....I am deaf! sorry
I didn't like it. The movie, this version, lacks so much of the background as told by Henry James in his book. It's like a rainstorm without the rain.
For a movie to incorporate all the background detail contained in the novel it would have to go on for at least 20 or 30 hours. Why would you expect an 80 minute dramatisation to comprise all the detail of a novel?
It was a TV production and thus somewhat constrained in the scenery department.
Mr. Densham looks like jamie oliver
Such intrigue...
The actress playing Ms Thesle... doesn't sound American....😊 just my opinion
馬毛ブラシはどちらのブランドでしょうか？
It can be any brand. Used now for paint brushes.
Entertaining
More like a play
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
lol--not a bad description of much of James's later, gorgeous novels
I love the devious tricks here hehehe!
Mettete i sottotitoli grazie ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks
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Que mala esa Catherine cookson borrar todos sus videos
traducir al español por favor
Kate has no soul
Mm rather silly and convoluted, I thought.
i have no understanding of what happened in this movie
+jojo2be1 that is because you are not english
+danny thomas henry james was american
you are ignorant as hell, and a basement dwelling waste of space!
weird ass trying to insult someone one
Exactly, thank you!
you have to be born in england to understand shis drama its like when I watched north and south I could not quite understand that so what you can turn it of and watch something else
The nasal speech delivery is most unpleasant.
doug foote
Ha, falsetto-nasel
This movie doesn’t make sense
BBC Play of the Month..(S14E05).Wings of the Dove.1979.Elizabeth Spriggs. Betsy Blair. )_1h21_ .
I confused this for another, much better version of Henry James many layered story. I found this to be stilted and unnatural.
Crappy acting
Evil mercenary clever crypt keeper wasp euros...thank you for documenting your perfidies
Idiotic plot, not at all believable.
English love affairs are complicated and evil sometimes. The guy was led to live a sick woman whom he felt with and his relationship with his love died, that evil in my eyes why would I attempt the man I love or a man attempt the woman he love, loving that dying girl was normal
what in the world is wrong with that women....smh...shes so weird
+jojo2be1 She's a creation of Henry James, that might explain it!!!
lol
Horrible…. Depressing …. Melodrama,,,,
Who wrote this $#%^?
Henry James an absolutely brilliant writer , however the acting is in this case good but not up to par .
Boring....
Wasted 1hr 20mins. Couldn't understand the plot from start to finish. Very disappointing
A very poor story line.
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Bla Bla Bla, non stop, about nothing........
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Wierd costumes. Doesn't make sense at all.
Weird? It was british fashion in those days..makes perfect sense!