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5 April 1998 (USA)
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Not all villans wear black
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Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives...
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3 wins
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Entertaining enough but lacks subtlety
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tara Fitzgerald | ... | Marian Fairlie |
 | Justine Waddell | ... | Laura Fairlie |
| Andrew Lincoln | ... | Walter Hartright |
| Susan Vidler | ... | Anne Catherick |
| John Standing | ... | Mr. Gilmore |
| Adie Allen | ... | Margaret Porcher |
| Ian Richardson | ... | Mr. Fairlie |
| James Wilby | ... | Sir Percival Glyde |
| Ann Bell | ... | Mrs. Rideout |
| Anne Etchells | ... | Liza |
| Timothy Carlton | ... | Glyde's Lawyer |
| Simon Callow | ... | Count Fosco |
| Tony Spooner | ... | Glyde's Servant |
| Sean Gleeson | ... | Glyde's Servant |
| Kika Markham | ... | Madame Fosco |
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125 min
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Version of Tangled Lives (1917)
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This film adaptation is a real missed opportunity. The cast is good and does its best with the screenplay but the subtlety of Collins's novel is largely lost. It is quite possible to see why the format of the original novel would require some structural changes but quite why the makers of the film felt it necessary to change so much in the plot is frankly a mystery.
It feels like they had decided who they wanted to play the parts and changed the story accordingly. Marian Holcombe is portrayed by Collins as having an ugly and masculine face; Tara Fitzgerald has anything but so they changed the character. Why change her name to Marian Fairlie? Sir Percival Glyde is too young and Fosco too thin.
Ah well, it's entertaining enough but like so many adaptations, you will be disappointed if you know the book. Out of curiosity I must now try to find copies of the other adaptations to see how they fare.