Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Does anyone on DL remember this movie? Is it worth the watch? It has all the makings of a classic epic:
Written and directed by Robert Bolt, who wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Man for All Seasons, Ryan's Daughter, and The Bounty;
A musical score by Richard Rodney Bennett; and
An all star cast: Sarah Miles, Richard Chamberlain, Jon Finch, John Mills, Margaret Leighton, Pamela Brown, Ralph Richardson, Peter Bull, and Laurence Olivier.
So, why did the film fail? Why is it so hard to find?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 20, 2024 1:27 AM
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I knew someone on DL would have thoughts about this period film
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 19, 2024 7:12 PM
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That movie poster makes her look quite monstrous. Which is apropos, I suppose, because wasn't she Lord Byron's crazy fan?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 19, 2024 7:15 PM
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You don't want to mention a little bit about what it's about? Stupid cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 19, 2024 7:19 PM
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Sarah Miles - she was the kiss of death for any movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 19, 2024 7:40 PM
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Oh please r4, she was wonderful in The Servant, Term of Trial, Ryan’s Daughter, Hope & Glory and White Mischief.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 19, 2024 7:42 PM
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I'm not saying she wasn't wonderful in many movies. It's just that many of the movies she starred in tanked at the box office.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 19, 2024 7:48 PM
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R3 I have never seen it. I've been trying to find a link. From Wikipedia:
"Based on the life of Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne."
Granted, I would watch it for Richard Chamberlain alone
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 19, 2024 7:52 PM
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So it isn't Watership Down with sheep?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 19, 2024 8:18 PM
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I remember when this movie came out. It had flop written all over it.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 19, 2024 8:59 PM
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R10 really? How? What was life like back in the 1970's?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 19, 2024 9:37 PM
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Sarah Miles career never recovered after that masturbation scene in The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 19, 2024 9:43 PM
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Sarah Miles was fucking the writer and director Robert Bolt; that's how she got the lead
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 19, 2024 10:09 PM
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Does she show her lady lamb?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 19, 2024 10:14 PM
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Lady Caroline Lamb was the woman who described Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
I saw this many years ago. Honestly, it's not good. I guess it's about the folly of romantic love, but there's no passion in it. Richard Chamberlain is gorgeous as Byron but there's no madness or badness in him. Jon Finch, who plays Lady Caroline's hapless husband, is also attractive, but he doesn't have much to do except look stoic.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 19, 2024 10:31 PM
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Lamb was the original stan.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 20, 2024 1:27 AM
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