These people should write novels! Bouquet of Barbed Wire was a huge hit in 1976. Elsewhere, the dialogue is quite entertaining although perhaps not for the intended reason, and every character seems to be a tad more eloquent than is credible. Such lapses of taste were, doubtless, symptoms of insecurity on the part of the producers - a lack of faith in their audience. These are emotional shades of grey painted in very gaudy colours. This is a prime example of over-writing, typified not only by the characters' continuous declarations of their states of minds, but also by the occasional "thought voice-over" - a device as blatantly literal-minded as it was crudely achieved. spelling out EXACTLY what the characters are thinking and feeling at all times so as to not confuse an ITV audience. Other times she stubs her toe on the dramatic conventions of soap opera ie. Writer Andrea Newman displays a gift for reproducing the broken speech rhythms of people under intense emotional pressure. I like verbose scripts and this had dialogue by the ton. I rather enjoyed it for it's slow, single-minded approach. Does that make it rubbish? No, not completely. This was LWT mainstream peak-time television viewing, not a night at the Royal Court. I expected something a little more philosophically lethal, perhaps along the lines of Potter or Pinter in "Betrayal" mode. Maybe so, but what they were actually getting was little more than a dramatised Woman's Own article produced, perhaps inevitably, in the style of Crossroads. I dare say that its upmarket target audience were flattered to see "their lives" being portrayed with such candour. Well.! What a carry on! What a palaver! What an outrage! What a great, glorious, steaming pile of melodramatic bilge. Frank's many other films include The Longest Day Tony Richardson's The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner Martin Ritt's The Molly Maguires Bob Clark's Murder by Decree Alan Bridges' The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination) Franco Zeffrelli's Sparrow and Eric Styles' Dreaming of Joseph Lees and most recently Roman Polanski's multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison's The Statement.I first saw this as a small child (progressive parents or irresponsible ones? You be the judge) and have revisited it recently on DVD. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas' musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Trained: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.įrank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare's Iago in Stuart Burge's 1965 film of Laurence Olivier's staging of Othello. Educated: St Gregory the Great, Farnworth and Bolton Technical College. Bolton, Lancashire on the 6th August 1926. 1st Boy (1 episode, 1976)īorn: Farnworth, nr. Waiter (1 episode, 1976)Īnthony McCaffery. 1st Police Officer (1 episode, 1976)Īndrew Tourell. Sarah's Father (1 episode, 1976)Ĭarol Drinkwater. Andrew Manson (2 episodes, 1976)ĭavid Horovitch. Rupert Warner (5 episodes, 1976)Įric Carte. Gavin Sorenson (7 episodes, 1976)ĭeborah Grant.
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