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Bookmark this pageThe Wicked Lady (1983)
Director: Michael Winner
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From Time Out Film Guide
'Bawdy', 'full-blooded', 'boisterous romp' - jaded adjectives hover over this particular filmic carcass, and popular British cinema gets another Carry On Up the Restoration. Charles II is squeezing Nell's oranges ho ho, and the very wonderful Dunaway becomes a roaring girl by night, cantering out from secret back passages and getting their money or their lives from rentacrowd in full-bottomed wigs. No village green without a rollicking maypole, no keyhole without a rutting doxy behind it; Tyburn's in there somewhere, and so is that whip-fight which almost constituted a case for censorship. CPea.Author: CPea
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- The Lobstergoat said...
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Posted on Nov 23 2010 09:58
What everyone is forgetting here is that The Lobstergoat appeared in this film. He was carrying Faye Dunaway's wedding train and I must say made such an excellent job of that role that I'm surprised an award was not given.
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Cast & crew
Director: Michael Winner
Producer: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales, Oliver Tobias, Glynis Barber, Joan Hickson full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 99 mins
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