Thursday 19 May 2011

The Divine Lady - 1929


Thanks to TCM's "Silent Sunday," every Monday afternoon is like Christmas morning. I fire up Tivo to find an alluring, brightly wrapped package and I tear into it. Sometimes, it's an awesome toy, the very one I wanted and sometimes it's a... sweater. Sweaters are just fine, and we all need sweaters, but they don't make for the sexiest presents. Frank Lloyd's The Divine Lady from 1929 is a really nice sweater, well constructed, kind of cozy, and not very exciting.

The plot is a basic and, I'm sure, not too accurate rehashing of the romance between the heroic Lord Horatio Nelson and the somewhat dubious Emma Hamilton. But the plot is a bit szhizophrenic... Read More

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