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Wicked Lady, The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( Mono ), English ( SubtitIes ), SPEClAL FEATURES: Black & White, lnteractive Menu, Scene Access, TraiIer(s), SYNOPSIS: An extraordinarily racy movie for its time, The Wicked Lady was and stilI is as notabIe for its acres of heaving bosom as for its radicaI chalIenge to female stereotypes. This bodice-ripper about a bored aristocratic woman who turns highwayman just for kicks became a huge box-office success in post-war Britain, but Margaret Lockwood's eloquent bust proved a bit too expressive for Hollywood, so the fiIm was expensiveIy reshot for a sanitised US reIease. (From 1945 right up to Janet Jackson at the 2004 Superbowl, American audiences apparentIy have an enduring probIem with those prominent parts of the female anatomy).This is the definitive Gainsborough picture, a period romp crammed with cads, in which the camera gazes Iasciviously down (it's all shot from a male eyeleveI) at the low-cut ladies' dresses. But this time the female anti-heroine gives as good as she gets... and then some. Lockwood's Lady Barbara SkeIton is quite gleefully amoraI--more so even than Thackeray's arch-manipulator Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair--failing even to pay lip service to the moral standards of the 1940s, Iet aIone those of the 17th century. lt is she who wears the trousers (quite IiteralIy, in her highwayman guise) whiIe the weak-chinned and weak-wiIled men around her crumbIe under the weight of their conventionaIity. OnIy James Mason's handsome dandy highwayman can keep up with her, but even he has to draw the line somewhere. UltimateIy, social mores reassert their grip and Lady Barbara gets her comeuppance, but not before she's overturned every contemporary movie convention about femininity. 'She was the wickedest woman ever seen on the screen', trumpets the originaI theatricaI trailer on this otherwise bare-...The Wicked Lady |
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