In this second installment of the trilogy Emma Harte passes on the Harte business empire to her favourite grand-daughter Paula McGill Fairley who must strive to unite a warring family. This is the story of one woman's determination to find the passion and happiness that should be her rightful legacy.
The film explores how the orderly reassuringly clear worlds Enid Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life. It sheds light on the ambitious and driven - but as yet unpublished - young woman from the development of her rich imagination against the adversity of an imperfect childhood two World Wars and a first marriage ending in divorce - to household name. One of the most recognised storytellers of all time Enid Blyton's charming characters and classic tales have enchanted countless generations of children for almost 80 years. Having sold over 500 million books in 40 countries this film follows the woman behind the enduring and compelling stories such as the beloved Famous Five Secret Seven Malory Towers and Noddy series.
Newly wed to the evil and lecherous Drysdale (Ian Bannen) the beautiful Lady Panthea (Lysette Anthony) is saved on her wedding day by the dashing young highwayman the Silver Blade (Hugh Grant). As he rides into the moonlight she vows never to forget this mysterious stranger who must at the final outcome save her from certain death. As this lavish tale of greed treachery and blackmail weaves its fast-moving course through the sumptuous surroundings of King Charles II's (Michale York) palace a host of stars gather in an extravaganza of spectacular proportions set amidst a heart-stopping stage of duels to the death... and love.
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
Scar
It was just bad timing. While hiking in a remote forest college student Zack disappears leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom (Randy Wayne). Now a year later and plagued by nightmares Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny (Ashley Nelson) in a last desperate attempt to find out what happened to his friend. But the local small town Sheriff (Joe Estevez) suspects Tom as a handful of people have turned up dead with a mysterious bl
It was just bad timing. While hiking in a remote forest college student Zack disappears leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom (Randy Wayne). Now a year later and plagued by nightmares Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny (Ashley Nelson) in a last desperate attempt to find out what happened to his friend. But the local small town Sheriff (Joe Estevez) suspects Tom as a handful of people have turned up dead with a mysterious bleeding scar on their stomachs. Tom and Jenny soon find themselves unraveling a string of cyrptic secrets and caught in an intense struggle for their sanity as well as survival. From a redneck convenience store clerk to a motel owner moonlighting as a Psychic (Dee Wallace-Stone) everyone in this small town has something to hide. And when the dreaded scar appears on Jenny will they have enough time to figure out how to thwart the evil that dwells in the woods...
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