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Cavaliers versus Roundheads, lecherous lords and lovely ladies, masked men and moody mistressess – John Hough’s 1988 swashbuckling adventure The Lady and the Highwayman was a new Gainsborough Picture, no less, happily reviving memories of the […]
Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1934 rollicking 1660s-set costume romp Nell Gwyn stars Anna Neagle as brazen common English orange-vendor and actress Nell Gynn, who competes with the snooty aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth (Jeanne De Casalis) for the […]
Director Otto Preminger turns Kathleen Winsor’s saucy and salty 1944 historical romantic novel, set in 1660s England, becomes a famous and costly but low-voltage 1947 bodice-ripper of a movie, thanks to poor casting and censorship […]
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