[h-cost] Just discovered a great costume drama

[Lavolta Press]

"Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives," a BBC film with Jean-Marc Barr, 
Miranda Richardson, Richard Grant, and Anna Friel. I often find Robert 
Louis Stevenson's swashbucklers, taken straight, to be so excessive as 
to be absurd. This production goes right ahead and, while still 
providing nonstop adventure, intentionally takes the humor right over 
the top. The production values are excellent, though you do have to be 
prepared for a balloon that takes off without the gas being heated by 
anything, and, though the film is set in the Napoleonic era, hearing 
later background music such as Offenbach's can-can (for a galloping 
horse scene). What the heck. I was laughing the entire time.

Fran
Lavolta Press Books on Historic Clothing
http://www.lavoltapress.com
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