#Caroline Langrishe

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Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (BBC, 1980)

"Complacent with your mission, Dominick? Amusing, the history of transport. We've made a modicum of progress: trips are regulated to microseconds, punctuality taken for granted."

"Yes."

"Why then were you two minutes late on your double return? Machine fault?"

"No. I'm sorry."

"I accept apology. Reason?"

"It was raining. Rain slows everything. I saw an old woman knocked down and I was checking how long before help reached her. The medi-car was blocked in progress, I think she died."

"So?"

"I thought it might be interesting."

"People are not your conspectus, Dominick. If you wish to study people, watch old films."

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Caroline Langrishe

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Tremors: Shrieker Island

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di cambiare momentaneamente argomento e passare al mondo dei fumetti, continuando con la saga fantasy italiana che ormai conoscete bene, Kalya e per la precisione il volume 10. Dopo essere usciti dalla città gjaldest, Kalya e il suo gruppo continuano il loro viaggio ma Aridan è ferito e le sue condizioni si stanno…

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Caroline Langrishe, a.k.a. Isabella Linton in the 1978 BBC miniseries of Wuthering Heights (the most book-accurate adaptation of that hard-to-film novel to date), and nephew Fred's wife Janet in the 184 George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.

costume appreciation post: cosette

les misérables (1978), played by caroline langrishe (adult) and joanna price (child)

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Les Misérables - CBS - December 27, 1978

Drama

Running Time: 150 minutes

Stars:

Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean

Anthony Perkins as Javert

Angela Pleasence as Fantine

Caroline Langrishe as Cosette

Joanna Price as young Cosette

Christopher Guard as Marius

Ian Holm as Thénardier

Caroline Blakiston as Madame Thénardier

Timothy Morand as Enjolras

Dexter Fletcher as Gavroche

Cyril Cusack as Fauchelevent

Claude Dauphin as Bishop Myriel

John Gielgud as Gillenormand

Celia Johnson as Sister Simplice

Joyce Redman as Magliore

Flora Robson as The Prioress

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Actors who have appeared in both "Wuthering Heights" and "A Christmas Carol" adaptations

@faintingheroine

*Leo G. Carroll: Marley’s Ghost in the 1938 Reginald Owen Christmas Carol/Joseph in the 1939 Wuthering Heights

*Patrick Macnee: Edgar in the 1948 British TV Wuthering Heights/Young Marley in the 1951 Alastair Sim Scrooge

*Caroline Langrishe: Isabella in the 1978 BBC Wuthering Heights miniseries/Fred’s wife Janet in the 1984 George C. Scott Christmas Carol

*Cathryn Harrison: Catherine Linton in the 1978 BBC Wuthering Heights miniseries/Fred’s sister-in-law Kate ('the plump sister") in the 1984 George C. Scott Christmas Carol

*Charlotte Riley: Catherine Earnshaw in the 2009 Wuthering Heights miniseries/The Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge’s sister Lottie in the 2019 Guy Pearce Christmas Carol miniseries

*Andrew Lincoln: Edgar in the 2009 Wuthering Heights miniseries/Scrooge in the 2020 Old Vic Christmas Carol production shown in cinemas

*Dave Willetts: Heathcliff on the concept album of Bernard J. Taylor’s 1992 Wuthering Heights musical/one of the charity gentlemen in the 2004 Christmas Carol TV musical

Since both of these books are classic works of British literature, I'm honestly surprised that between all the adaptations, there haven't been more overlapping actors.

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Source: the San Bernardine Sun, 25 December 1978 Wild to learn about the reach of the March/Laughton film from ‘35. Also this article is so funny to me because they can no longer just say Cosette, Fantine,  or Marius and assume that the reader knows who they mean so they end up saying Valjean’s ward, Valjean’s ward’s mother, and Valjean’s ward’s lover and other round about things.  Also I read in a later article that the program “drew 38 percent of the national audience, according to the Neilsen ratings, and was the week's highest-rated special.” But overall it was ninth in the week for ratings, tied with a rerun of MASH.

HOLLYWOOD  — If Victor Hugo was alive today he'd be one of the most sought-after writers by television network presidents. His stories contain all the elements deemed necessary to make a film or series successful. Most notable example is Hugo's "Les Miserables," written in 1862. Inspired by the French people seeking freedom from oppression, he wrote the now-classic tale of an impoverished man, Jean Valjean, who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, and that act of survival sets off a chain reaction that includes drama, adventure, jeopardy, love, hatred and, above all, the action of the chase. CBS has picked the middle of what is usually considered an "off-week," the period between Christmas and New Year's Day when people are too preoccupied with holiday festivities to watch TV, to show the latest version of "Les Miserables," the Norman Rosemont Production in association with ITC Entertainment which occupies all three hours of CBS' prime-time programming Wednesday. It's CBS' gift-wrapped treat amid the rubble of reruns. The family that takes time out to relax from Yuletide activities will thoroughly enjoy a class production filmed in France and England in authentic surroundings that look as though no stone has been dislodged from its place since Hugo described its locale in his drama. Richard Jordan portrays Valjean, whose life is to be dogged by his obsessed pursuer, Inspector Javert, played by Anthony Perkins. As with his other revivals of the classics, "The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Four Feathers," all produced for both TV and theatrical release, Norman Rosemont has populated the cast with distinguished veteran actors. In his last performance, Claude Dauphin, who died recently, is seen as the kindly bishop who befriends Valjean. Sir John Gielgud is an elderly aristocrat. Celia Johnson is Valjean's housekeeper. Flora Robson is the head of a convent. Cyril Cusak is the convent's groundskeeper who provides brief refuge for the prison-escaping Valjean. Ian Holm is a greedy innkeeper. Joyce Redman is the bishop's housekeeper. 

Two young British newcomers, Caroline Langrishe and Christopher Guard, were chosen to play Valjean's pretty ward and the grandson of Gielgud. And Angela Pleasance is the beggar woman who further impedes Valjean's escape by entrusting her daughter (Langrishe) to his care. 

Of the many films on Hugo's classic (Jean Gavin as Valjean in the 1952 French movie; Gino Cervi in a 1943 Italian feature; Michael Rennie in a 1952 TV kinescope), the 1952 Warner Bros, movie with Frederic March and Charles Laughton is best remembered. 

Who can forget Laughton's Javert, having finally cornered Valjean (March) in a Paris sewer after his three-decade pursuit, shouting "The law is the law!" although, he, like Valjean, is aged and weary of this senseless pursuit. Did the specter of Laughton's dominating performance lurk in the background of this 1978 version? "No, not really," replied Glenn Jordan, who directed the $3 million production. "I saw the Laughton version twice and found very little I could use. One of the few things I thought interesting and useful was that Laughton played an eccentric. So I had Tony play it eccentrically, but in an entirely different way.

"Laughton was always Laughton in the end, not the characters he portrayed. I felt it was important to be the character Hugo intended because, after all, a lot of people have never seen those other versions or ever read the book." 

[Glenn] Jordan, who won an Emmy for the Ben Franklin specials on TV, among other citations for notable TV and stage productions, says that [Richard] Jordan, who first gained attention in TV's "The Captains and the Kings," and Perkins are much closer to the characters Hugo described in his lengthy novel. "I remember March and Laughton as being too old for their roles. They didn't really age as much as people would in real life, especially people who went through what they did. We assume Hugo's characters were about the same age in the beginning. The imprisonment period is 20 years, then a jump of five years passes, then it's 10 years more. [Really? March is such a young Jean Valjean]  "That's why it was important to cast young men who could age (via make-up and character change), rather than start out with older actors in those roles." Redoing the classics has bothered some purists who prefer to let the original versions stand on their merits. But Glenn Jordan has valid reasons for remaking a classic such as this. "The social problems of poverty and justice vs. justice, these are things, I think that are self-explanatory," he said. "But the human problems, the relations between the people are the most interesting because, it seems to me, that when you redo a classic you have to make it vivid for today's audience. "When you see older versions of such stories they are very much versions of their time and reflect the thinking of their time, including the style in which they were done." By PAUL HENMGER Gannett News Service

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Am I the only one who thinks this photo of Jemma Redgrave and Caroline Langrishe for the 1995 BBC Radio 2 adaptation of Joanna Trollope’s A Spanish Lover looks really, really gay? It’s as if they’re posing for an engagement photo or something!

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W A T C H I N G

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Horror Movie Review: Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

Got Graboid problems? Who are you going to call? Why Burt Gummer of course!

This franchise is beginning to look a bit tired now and come the end of this 7th instalment, you get the impression that everyone is ready to move on. Tremors: Shrieker Island is the latest in the Tremors series of movies, the first considered a cult classic and released way back in 1990. Since then we’ve had a ton of sequels with varying results in regard to quality. There are some enjoyable…

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I only just learned that she was Rex Harrison’s granddaughter.

And she appears in a small role in the George C. Scott Christmas Carol as Fred’s sister-in-law (the character Dickens calls "the plump sister"), with Caroline Langrishe, who played her aunt Isabella in this Wuthering Heights, as her sister, Fred’s wife.

Cathryn Harrison as Catherine Linton in Wuthering Heights (1978)

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Bad movie I have Tremors: Shrieker Island 2020

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Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) preview with first trailer

Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) preview with first trailer

Tremors: Shrieker Island is a 2020 American science-fiction horror feature film about genetically modified monsters on the attack: Graboids, Ass Blasters, and Shriekers!

Directed by Don Michael Paul (Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy; Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell; Tremors 5: Bloodlines; Lake Placid: The Final Chapter) from a screenplay written by Brian Brightly.

The Universal Home Entertainment…

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot #27, “The Mystery of the Spanish Chest” (1991)

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Judith Krantz’s Mistral’s Daughter -  CBS  -  September 24, 1984 - October 1, 1984

Drama Miniseries (8 episodes)

Running Time:  390 minutes total

Stars:

Stefanie Powers as Magali 'Maggy' Lunel

Lee Remick as Katherine 'Kate' Browning

Stacy Keach as Julien Mistral

Robert Urich as Jason Darcy

Timothy Dalton as Perry Kilkullen

Stéphane Audran as Paula Deslandes

Ian Richardson as Adrien Avigdor

Stephanie Dunnam as Theodora 'Teddy' Lunel

Cotter Smith as Melvin 'Falk' Allenberg

Pierre Malet as Eric Avigdor

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Fauve Mistral

Co-starring

Alexandra Stewart as Mary Jane Kilkullen

Joanna Lumley as Lally Longbridge

Caroline Langrishe as Nadine

Jonathan Hyde as Philippe, Nadine's husband

Angela Thorne as Nanny Butterfield

Wolf Kahler as Major Schmidt

Michael Gough as Cardinal

Françoise Brion as Patricia Falkland

Shane Rimmer as Harry Klein

Victor Spinetti as Alberto Bianchi

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Source: the San Bernardino Sun, 27 December 1978 Idk how this reviewer came to the conclusion that the point of les mis is evading capture, not social injustice but at least he appreciates Perkins as Javert.

The executive suite denizens at the commercial television networks regard the period between Christmas and New Year's Day as the best time of the year to put on what they like to call quality drama. 

Their reasoning springs from something called the HUT level. HUT is an abbreviation of homes using television. It is a figure provided by the national ratings services along with their weekly reports on how well each show aired fared. Simply stated, it shows the number of television sets turned on. 

At this time of year the HUT figures are invariably far below their normal levels. The networks take this to mean the public is so wrapped up in celebrating the holidays it doesn't watch television much. 

This tends to leave network programmers with three possible courses of action. Since they obviously don't want to waste fresh episodes of regular series on such diminished audiences, they use all three to varying degrees. 

They can produce season specials in hopes of attracting one-shot audiences for specific shows. They can show reruns of past specials that have been hits and old episodes of regular series, thus saving a bit of money. They can air all those documentaries and "prestige" shows that add considerably to their public images without having to worry about being seriously damaged by the competition in the ratings. 

The one who really benefits from these ploys is the viewer who has a chance to watch the tube, because he gets to see such excellent fare as the lushly made, dramatically powerful "Les Miserables," CBS tonight at 8. 

[. . . plot summary. . .] Then a saintly bishop, played by Claude Duphin, gives [Valjean] the wealth he came to steal, on the condition he use it to lead a decent life. It is a very moving scene in which Valjean undergoes what can only be described as a religious conversion. Jordan says it was the hardest scene in the production for him to do, and also the scene that made him want to play the part of Valjean. 

[. . . plot summary. . .] Also in the production are John Gielgud as the aristocratic grandfather of the young revolutionary in love with Valjean's ward, Christopher Guard as the revolutionary, Caroline Langrishe as the ward, Angela Pleasance as the sickly beggar who entrusts Langrishe's character to Valjean's care, and Cyril Cusack as the groundskeeper who provides refuge for Valjean and his ward at a convent. 

All turn in magnificent performances, only to be overshadowed by Jordan and Perkins. And, it is Perkins who ends up stealing the show with a single facial expression in a chase scene through the Paris sewers near the story's end. Throughout the production, director Glenn Jordan and producer Norman Rosemont never lose sight of the fact that "Les Miserables" is foremost a story of the pursued and pursuer, even though they stress the social and human themes present in the Hugo novel.