Years ago, I remember, seeing this a lot of time on nostalgia channel.It was a shrunk color print,The scene where Anna is begging Nicholas Phip to except her as an equal,in post Crimean war sequence,I, remember seeing the red in that uniform so weak,bad print.But now It's been remastered from the original elements. It's A sparkling Technicolor print now and the uniform is so red it bleeds. Now Ladymead looks better than ever,the costumes and art direction is superb.Anna Neagle,who later became Dame Anna Neagle, plays four women,in four periods,The Crimean war ,the Boer war,right after the end of world war 1 .a day before 1920 and after world war2 .She pro trays women ,whom when they got married were originally submissive to their husbands,The first one 1946,Sir John Beresford,1946, played by the handsome Hugh Williams ,the 1854 version played by Nicholas Phip, the 1903 version played by James bond boss,when he was young,Bernard Lee.Michael Lawrence in 1919, but, when these men came back the women have changed.These women want more responsibility and to be equals with them.This angers the husbands.Then there's the interfering friend who show upright after the husband come home from war, delaying Liz, Betty,Beth,Elizabeth from being alone with her husband.The only problem is the 1919 right before 1920,The Betty sequence,there's some inaccuracy of the period.The music that Betty played,on her record was the Sheik of Araby,which was not published until after 1920.Women began to get more wild right after 1920,by the mid 20's,I think.Not before the end of 1919.Women I don't think started wearing heavy make up until after 1920.The Betty character was wearing heavy make up in 1919.All in all this was a good example of a British Technicolor production.If Natalie Kalmus did not try to sell the Technicolor process to Britain,this film would have Duffey color,which was not a very good color process, 06/08/14
Review of Elizabeth of Ladymead
