Your favorite Victorian Era Movies?

[OSHIROmodels]

Just to go off on a tangent here, how about great books about the Victorian period that should have been made into a film:

War of the Worlds

It's never been done right! (and probably never will  )

cheers

James

[Justin Buck]

I think my favorite movies would be:
Zulu -I don't care if its mostly Hollywood
Zulu Dawn
The Wind and the Lion
Rough Riders
Sherlock Holmes -the new one
A Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few More Dollars, and the Good, the Bad, the Ugly -for my nameless bounty hunter fix
The Wolfman -the new one
Dracula
Tombstone
Just to name a few off the top of my head
Justin

[ushistoryprof]

War of the Worlds

It's never been done right! (and probably never will  )

cheers

James

  Oh, how true and so sad.  Why can't some one do this right!

As to other movies most have been listed, I might add "Lives of the Bengal Lancers", "Drums", and "Northwest Mounted Police"  fun to watch for the uniforms and battle sequences.

[Galloping Major]

Old Goat
Did anyone else (apart from me) fancy Jill Bennett who was playing Fanny Dubberly in that film?

Not quite what you'd call conventionally pretty, but she did have a certain something, especially in the 1850s undies 

Peter Bowles was good as her hubby, didn't fancy him at all though 


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[Galloping Major]

War of the Worlds

It's never been done right! (and probably never will  )

cheers

James

I've always thought that would be brilliant; Hollywood always seems to find it more viable to set these things in "present day" sad, cos 1890s a la the recent Sherlock Holmes would be wonderful.


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[OSHIROmodels]

I've always thought that would be brilliant; Hollywood always seems to find it more viable to set these things in "present day" sad, cos 1890s a la the recent Sherlock Holmes would be wonderful.

Yes, I agree. Quiet, safe England about to been shaken to it's very foundations. Cracking stuff 

cheers

James

[Plynkes]

Jill Bennett was playing Fanny Duberly? I thought she was meant to be one of the horses.

Can't say I liked that part of it. They made her seem like a sex-mad airhead bimbo with no opinions of her own (with all that "Duberly says..." stuff). Something of a disservice to the real Fanny Duberly, one might venture. Still a very enjoyable film though (I rarely get agitated about trousers, so that part doesn't bother me much).

Her Crimean journal is available online, if anyone is interested:
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[gloriousbattle]

Oh yes, the Deceivers, that's one that should certainly have been on my list. 

Great film from a great Masters novel.


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Just saw this one through for the first time because of your post.  Great stuff!  If I become a Thug, do I get to "date" Kali too?

[Tommy20]

Agree with most of those listed above, and would add The Lighthorsemen.  Although not Victorian, it has all the elements I look for in a Victorian advernture.

[argsilverson]

Gentlemen and ladies,

On my earlier post on this I did mention some Czech films inspired by Jules Verne stories.
fellow LAFer Donpimpom was kind enough and started a new topic called "Karel Zeman VSF films"
here is the link:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19821.0;topicseen

it is very interesting have a look!

[Shikari Sahib]

My list is like this:
the Drum
Four feathers ,Korda version
Gunga Din,
Lives of a bengal lancers
Zulu
Zulu down
The man who would be king
Beau Geste ,Gary Cooper version
Kim
Young Winston ,but just the parts on NWF and Sudan
Far Pavillons
La Bandera - march or die
the Wind and the Lion
Braeker Morant
Lawrence of Arabia
Mogambo
King's Solomon's mines , Stewart Granger version


Piero

[Shikari Sahib]

Lawrence is obviously WWI but I know what you mean...it's in the spirit of the era, but Mogambo with Ava Gardner and an ageing Clark Gable?

Leave aside it is rubbish (which I admit is a subjective judgement) but it's not even close to Victorian? 

I agree with you , partially, but is a movie that always push me to arrange a game for big hunt 
yes some are  out of Victorian period, I mentioned more movies connected to Colonial than Victoria period.

Piero

[bandit86]

Gunga Din
Man who would be king
Beau Geste (I really like the one with Tele Savalis I know purist will hate me)
Master of the world
Zulu/Zulu dawn
Breaker Morant
King of the Khyber rifles
Any Sherlock Holmes
Khartoum
And one that I remember as a kid but could never remember the name a British Vs Arab type.