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VHS : Bad Lord ByronIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood, Linden Travers, Sonia Holm directed by: David MacDonald  Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303241418 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6303241417 Label: Hollywood Select Video Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hollywood Select Video Release Date: August 29, 1994 Running Time: 85 minutes Studio: Hollywood Select Video Theatrical Release Date: 1949 Sales Rank: 20554 Related Items: Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Costume melodramaPanned by the critics but well received by many British filmgoers on its first release in 1949 (the Daily Mirror called it a 'film hit' and fans in Film Illustrated wrote that the acting was superb) this remains a very controversial film, as can be seen from the wide variety of comments on this page! Its bad critical reception in its country of origin probably explains why at the time of writing there is no video or DVD of the film available for UK viewers, but it is available in the US and in Germany ... Read More Rating:  - Yeegh!Woh G, this is money! I love this movie! Word! Rating:  - mad, bad and dangerous to knowThis Rank period drama directed by David MacDonald begins with George Byron on his deathbed, then taking us to a pergatorial courtroom where a faceless judge presides over his fate. Is he to be remembered by posterity as a poet and a liberator, or a seducer and libertine? Witnesses are brought to testify in flashbacks with prosecution clad in black and defence in white, with the set reminiscent of the stylised courtroom used in John Ford's Mary of Scotland. However the legitimacy of this treatment is undermined ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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