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This is really a great version — I think it’s hands down the best Ivanhoe! — and tremendous fun, plus it’s wonderful to watch Olivia Hussey. (The newer A&E production is pretty good, but the lead actor is so bland and, at 5 hours, it’s just too long!)
Unfortunately the VHS tape of this 1982 version is as rare as hen’s teeth and it needs to be released on DVD *now*!!
Since “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is (finally) out on DVD next month, I hope it won’t be too long before it’s joined by this fine miniseries. I’ll be first in line to buy it.
I have seen both film versions of Ivanhoe as listed in the Leonard Maltin video guide, and this definitely vanquishes all comers. Believe this or not, but when I first acquired the video I watched it on a daily basis for the next few weeks (and I still do that sometimes)- my long-suffering family would confirm my statement - and I think that anyone who has watched this film would agree with me that all too rarely has a great book like Ivanhoe been able to have a film this good to do justice to it. Besides the colour, sounds and minor episodes which all blend in this film to make the best recreation of the atmosphere of the age of chivalry I ever saw, what I admire most about this film is the way the people who made the film paid attention to all the little things that a purist would be grateful for - not only getting the devices and colours, and even the mottoes of the knights’ escutcheons right, but retaining artistic integrity by refusing to join everyone else in making Brian de B.-G. and Maurice de Bracy out-and-out-bad guys; indeed, portraying them with a good deal of sympathy. As an admirer of Maurice de Bracy for quite some time, I was delighted to find that my favourite character retained all the qualities given to him by Scott even when appearing on screen, and that his friendship with Brian and Reginald F.-d.-B. was portrayed in all its sincerity. Sam Neill and the person who acted R. F.-d.-B. never acted better (or rather, I should say, they acted as well as they always do) and were quite perfect in their roles. In fact, the way the three ‘bad guys’ (they’re not really bad but we’ll call tham that for short, since Wilfred is the ‘hero’ and they’re on the other side) work together is exceedingly fun to watch and they all appear to be enjoying themselves and being enthusiastic about the whole thing which makes it even more fun for the viewer, and brings out their characterisation marvellously. (Just to show how suited they are to their characters: in the first glimpse of a few seconds each that you get of them in the first sequence, with no shields to identify them, I was able, the first time I watched the show, to guess who they were just from their expressions and appearance - correctly, as I later found; at that point I really had no idea who they were!) Anthony Andrews carried off the -oh-I-am-sick-ouch-thanks-Rebecca-but-I’m-already-in-love-with-Rowena act splendidly, but to see him at maximum charm look at ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’. For the rest, I was very impressed with the way all the rest of the cast acted, from Cedric and Wamba through Locksley and the heroines right down to Conrade Mont-Fichet and William de Wyvil (though he’s not called that in the show). And even for those who haven’t read the book, this film would be a great thing to watch. Even if you don’t know the characters, you get to know them through here and the story itself is fast-paced and dripping with chivalry and all the trimmings - what more could you want?
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