Marquess

The Fool (1990)

Actors: James Cosmo (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Paul Brooke (actor), Murray Melvin (actor), Michael Medwin (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Jonathan Cecil (actor), Don Henderson (actor), Cyril Cusack (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Patricia Hayes (actress), Rosalie Crutchley (actress),

Plot: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties. In fact he is not and his wealth and expertise are more in the minds of his associates than in reality. Interestingly, despite the large social gap between the two classes, there are many similarities in what goes on in both within this story. This can be seen as the main character switches back and forth between his charade as a peer and his real self.

Keywords: 19th-century, clerk, costume, deception, double-life, impersonation, independent-film, london-england, satire, scam
Genres: Drama,

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

Actors: Peter Tanner (editor), Doreen Soan (miscellaneous crew), Nick Bicât (composer), James Villiers (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Edgar J. Scherick (miscellaneous crew), James Payne (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), David Gant (actor), Anthony Andrews (actor), Nick Brimble (actor), Anthony Andrews (actor), Jane Seymour (actress), Eleanor Fazan (miscellaneous crew), Phyllis Dalton (costume designer),

Plot: During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.

Keywords: 1790s, 18th-century, aristocrat, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, dancing, disguise, england, english, estate
Genres: Action, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Sir Percy: [to thug] It would seem your friend is in distress. To the rescue. [pushes thug into the river]::Sir Percy: [throws a knife into the river] Yours, I believe.

Chauvelin: I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society.::Sir Percy: Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Sir Percy: This little revolution of yours is monstrous intolerable.

Chauvelin: We shall execute our king instead, sir, and exalt our tailors.::Sir Percy: More's the pity. Then your tailors will rule the land, and no one will make the clothes. So much for French fashion, and French politics.

Sir Percy: Sink me, your tailors have betrayed you.

Marguerite: They seek him here,/ They seek him there,/ Those Frenchies seek him everywhere./ Is he in heaven,/ Or is he in hell?/ My own elusive Pimpernel.::Sir Percy: Sink me, the lady is a poet.::[they kiss]

Prince Regent: Percy. Fashionably late, as usual.::Sir Percy: Sink me, your highness, it was this damned cravat. Simply refused to tie. I ask you. Sticking out like a pincushion.::Prince Regent: I might have known it would be something serious.

Sir Percy: What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see I'm a poet, and you didn't know it, what?

Sir Percy: The only power that I can see at present, mademoiselle, is the power of your beauty.::Marguerite: Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Sir Percy.::Sir Percy: This beholder is enchanted.

Marguerite: I don't know whether you're mad, or...::Sir Percy: Desperately in love? 'Tis all the same. Tell me, if you can, that you do not feel it, too.

Duas Causas (1952)

Actors: Helga Liné (actress), Artur Semedo (actor), Henrique Campos (director), Augusto Fraga (miscellaneous crew), Eugénio Salvador (actor), Manuel Santos Carvalho (actor), Américo Patela (miscellaneous crew), Elvira Velez (actress), Carmen Mendes (actress), Mariana Villar (actress), Fernando Fragoso (writer), Mario Duarte (writer), António Sacramento (actor), Alves da Cunha (actor), Luís Filipe (actor),

Plot: Adriana Bento, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, falls pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Senhor Bento, kicks her our of home. What he does not know is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student. The latter becomes a lawyer and his first client is a young woman accused of having aborted after being seduced and abandoned. Which makes him think twice about his own attitude...

Keywords: based-on-novel, courtroom, illegitimate-child
Genres: Drama,

Barrio (1947)

Actors: Ladislao Vajda (director), Jesús García Leoz (composer), Santiago Rivero (actor), Isabel de Castro (actress), Fernando Aguirre (actor), Georges Simenon (writer), Julia Caba Alba (actress), Manolo Morán (actor), Tony Leblanc (actor), Carlos Otero (actor), Rafael Bardem (actor), Guillermo Marín (actor), Antonio Riquelme (actor), Juana Mansó (actress), Antonio de Lara (writer),

Genres: Crime, Drama,