Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material.
On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
Customer Reviews:
Really enjoyable historical romantic film with a Star cast.......2001-01-26
Hugh Grant is excellently cast as the dashing highwayman "Silver Blade",while Lysette Anthony plays the beautiful,demure Lady Fanthea.If you like Barbara Cartland's novels then you will love this adaptation.The storyline is gripping right to the final scenes.Lysette portrays Fanthea as an English autocratic lady with great courage and dignity even in the face of an uncertain future.Hugh as the Silver Blade is a true English gentleman rescuing the damsel in distress and has you believing in him from the outset.I am a huge fan of historical romantic novels and first saw this film on TV many years ago and have been searching for a copy ever since.It is brilliantly filmed with lavish period costumes and splendid scenery,particularly King Charles's palace and has a host of stars in many of the lead roles.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material.
On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
Customer Reviews:
Really enjoyable historical romantic film with a Star cast.......2001-01-26
Hugh Grant is excellently cast as the dashing highwayman "Silver Blade",while Lysette Anthony plays the beautiful,demure Lady Fanthea.If you like Barbara Cartland's novels then you will love this adaptation.The storyline is gripping right to the final scenes.Lysette portrays Fanthea as an English autocratic lady with great courage and dignity even in the face of an uncertain future.Hugh as the Silver Blade is a true English gentleman rescuing the damsel in distress and has you believing in him from the outset.I am a huge fan of historical romantic novels and first saw this film on TV many years ago and have been searching for a copy ever since.It is brilliantly filmed with lavish period costumes and splendid scenery,particularly King Charles's palace and has a host of stars in many of the lead roles.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material.
On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
Customer Reviews:
Really enjoyable historical romantic film with a Star cast.......2001-01-26
Hugh Grant is excellently cast as the dashing highwayman "Silver Blade",while Lysette Anthony plays the beautiful,demure Lady Fanthea.If you like Barbara Cartland's novels then you will love this adaptation.The storyline is gripping right to the final scenes.Lysette portrays Fanthea as an English autocratic lady with great courage and dignity even in the face of an uncertain future.Hugh as the Silver Blade is a true English gentleman rescuing the damsel in distress and has you believing in him from the outset.I am a huge fan of historical romantic novels and first saw this film on TV many years ago and have been searching for a copy ever since.It is brilliantly filmed with lavish period costumes and splendid scenery,particularly King Charles's palace and has a host of stars in many of the lead roles.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material.
On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
Customer Reviews:
Really enjoyable historical romantic film with a Star cast.......2001-01-26
Hugh Grant is excellently cast as the dashing highwayman "Silver Blade",while Lysette Anthony plays the beautiful,demure Lady Fanthea.If you like Barbara Cartland's novels then you will love this adaptation.The storyline is gripping right to the final scenes.Lysette portrays Fanthea as an English autocratic lady with great courage and dignity even in the face of an uncertain future.Hugh as the Silver Blade is a true English gentleman rescuing the damsel in distress and has you believing in him from the outset.I am a huge fan of historical romantic novels and first saw this film on TV many years ago and have been searching for a copy ever since.It is brilliantly filmed with lavish period costumes and splendid scenery,particularly King Charles's palace and has a host of stars in many of the lead roles.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material.
On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
Customer Reviews:
Really enjoyable historical romantic film with a Star cast.......2001-01-26
Hugh Grant is excellently cast as the dashing highwayman "Silver Blade",while Lysette Anthony plays the beautiful,demure Lady Fanthea.If you like Barbara Cartland's novels then you will love this adaptation.The storyline is gripping right to the final scenes.Lysette portrays Fanthea as an English autocratic lady with great courage and dignity even in the face of an uncertain future.Hugh as the Silver Blade is a true English gentleman rescuing the damsel in distress and has you believing in him from the outset.I am a huge fan of historical romantic novels and first saw this film on TV many years ago and have been searching for a copy ever since.It is brilliantly filmed with lavish period costumes and splendid scenery,particularly King Charles's palace and has a host of stars in many of the lead roles.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece.
From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material.
On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
Customer Reviews:
Really enjoyable historical romantic film with a Star cast.......2001-01-26
Hugh Grant is excellently cast as the dashing highwayman "Silver Blade",while Lysette Anthony plays the beautiful,demure Lady Fanthea.If you like Barbara Cartland's novels then you will love this adaptation.The storyline is gripping right to the final scenes.Lysette portrays Fanthea as an English autocratic lady with great courage and dignity even in the face of an uncertain future.Hugh as the Silver Blade is a true English gentleman rescuing the damsel in distress and has you believing in him from the outset.I am a huge fan of historical romantic novels and first saw this film on TV many years ago and have been searching for a copy ever since.It is brilliantly filmed with lavish period costumes and splendid scenery,particularly King Charles's palace and has a host of stars in many of the lead roles.
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