"My Cousin Rachel" - BBC 1983 - Part 3
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The superb 1983 Masterpiece Mystery adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel." (To date, unavailable on DVD.)
Rachel - Geraldine Chaplin
Phillip - Christopher Guard
Rainaldi - Charles Kay
Nick Kendall - John Stratton
Louise Kendall - Amanda Kirby
Seecombe - Bert Parnaby
Ambrose Ashley - John Shrapnel
Giuseppe - Michael Mellinger
Directed by Brian Farnham, Teleplay by Hugh Whitemore.
She played Phillip like a violin!
A rather typical Rachel in my experience, expert manipulaters.
Oh, come on. Philip did the screwups on his own. She never asked for money. She never asked for jewelry. She never asked him to alter his will. He's a foolish young man. Yeah, she hung around, in effect, hoping. And personally, if, like Phillip, I were THAT rich, I would've settled a lump sum on my cousin's widow. It wasn't any skin off his fortune. The yearly sum for LIFE was ... but again... Young and dumb. You can't blame the flame for killing moths. Sure the letters were worrisome, but the lawyer explained the cousin's brain tumor and its inherent symptoms and paranoia... Same symptoms Philip begain having!
Geraldine Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin’s daughter is a legendary actress. She played in David Lean’s Ryan’s daughter, a 1971 academy winning film. She plays this part very well.
Some people deserve what's coming...how can Philip not trust his own beloved uncle. and everyone warning him....
The point about the 1950s and 2017 versions, both better than this one, is DuMaurier wants us to have doubt about Rachel. Is she a villain, or the victim of a husband descending into madness from a brain tumor. She appears to manipulate Philip, but is she a killer? OK she's a spendthrift, but again spendthrift doesn't equal killer. Perhaps she hung around so Philip would give her money. But SHE never brought up the Ambrose unsigned will. Philip did. She never urged Philip to alter his will. He did all on his own. She was pretty cold about staying single and keeping everything. But Philip wrote the legacy so she couldn't marry anyone and keep the inheritance. And though she might've had attraction and warm feelings toward him, she wasn't in love and though we heard him saying he loved her repeatedly, she never said this ONCE. Philip never thought with the correct head.
@Sheila T. In the 2017 version, the doubt is much heavier since the protagonist has all these headaches, just like his uncle.... who died of a brain tumor. I'm relying on my vision of Rachel from watching the films. I've not read the book. But, the letter between Rachel and the lawyer says she wants to bring him to Italy, and "it could be the making of him.." So, Rachel, who loved her financial freedom, of course, still seems to have some love for the boy... who was pretty bombastic and obnoxious in his "claim" over her... And in the 1950 death scene, Rachel is clearly stupefied at dying from the fall... it seems she understands he sent her to her death... So, as much as I disliked Rachel, for her opportunism... really WHY did she accept his entire fortune? She could've given the lion's share of it back and STILL have lived a fabulous life...completely independent of him!!! Ah Daphne... She was a mess...
@@aplicqu8761 makes me think of MM...
@@DH007-w2dIKR... plus the stupidity of Philip (am not yet done watching though) reminds me of you know who. And how funny her name is Rachel!
Poor naive Phillip is putty in the hands of an experienced, manipulative and voracious woman.
Whoever said, there is no fool like an old fool, never met Phillip.
Today, Phillip would be a poster boy, for Simps , lol
He’s like a puppy in the claws of a tiger.
she has not grace to play this part, she actually killed it
Disagree.
@@scathatchI agree with You.
Who needs paper shredders for documents when you have blazing fireplaces!
Or Rachel's razor sharp cheekbones and beak for a nose?
When I had a fireplace I did not use a paper shredder.
Run Phillip, run!
THAT KISS CHANGED HIS WHOLE THOUGHT ABOUT HER ,
Hard to watch since there is a sense of impending doom. I mean - well done. Good production.
Love is blind... and stupid.
Did they have to hurt the dog? Every time there is an animal is in these stories, it comes to harm.
Everything is harmed in the wake of these type of women. Destruction and sorrow is all they leave.
I should have read the comments first !!!
It is painful watching .... I am writing this half way through part 3 , just to have a break; in fact, I think I will have an early night. No I will watch a Jeeves and Wooster to cheer me up.
I will try tomorrow to struggle through part 3 and part 4.
@Sheila T. So far, no. I think I have to be in a very positive mood to endure the final parts ... I do not want to give up ...... he just can not be such an imbecile !!
@Sheila T. Thanks for advice .. I am sure I know that you are correct; I just wonder if curiosity gets the better of me !!!
Ooh! The plot thickens! I love everything. Acting is good. Scenery beautiful. It's like Mills and Boon come to life! I cannot recall reading any M&B but must have somewhere along the way. Anyway, this is highly entertaining and I love it! Hey from Adelaide down under! 👇💜🙃
I first would like to appologize for my english, probably very bad from all the time I didn't train it...
But I think I understand the choice of G. Charplin as Rachel. From the beginning, Philip imagines her like a selfish, charismatic woman. Geraldine looks like the very opposite : she seems so fragile, delicate, melancholic... like a porcelain doll. That's also explained in the novel : Rachel is little, has very little hands... Then we can understand Philip's stupefaction when he meets her. And remember that beauty, at this time (XIXe century) appeared diffently than today.
Was Rachel supposed to look like a shriveled up corpse?
Marie. Your English is really good. Apologize or apologise (we prefer the 's' in the UK) and I didn't STUDY it or PRACTISE would be better than TRAIN. French isn't your first language by any chance?
An interesting, well-informed explanation that makes a lot of sense. However, I’m not convinced it works in a visual medium, where we need to see more clearly that Rachel’s physical charms are so irresistible that Philip can switch dramatically from enemy to besotted lover.
@@loismcclung1940 moi, je pense... Train could do, too.
Hello Lois. Thank you for yor encouragement and corrections. My motherlanguage is french, indeed. :) I must say that I've seen the movie "My cousin Rachel" with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton (1952) after this version... and I admit than Mrs de Havilland appeared as a more suitable Rachel. It's a good movie too.
It is hard to watch someone like Phillip so unwise!!!!!
This is extremely well done... but very hard to watch! We can all see what is coming, the only question is just how bad it will be!
Impending dooooom......almost every 3minutes in this movie.....passion and lust confuses the mind so!!! This woman is a pariah and vile manipulator, I hope there is a great big shift as it dread the outcome for this poor fellow
I have never seen so many rants under a movei/ tv series before.... Poor Geraldine Chaplin,! I find her captivating....
You must pick up your dates in the morgue.
Midway through and wondering if anyone else wanting Philip to suffer immensely for his willful ignorance. It's so painful to watch, with nothing to do but go the other way, and root for the grifters.
I rather hope louise never takes him back after she is done with him
Don't Believer Her Phil... Don't Believe Her!! lol
What’s with English gentlemen always crushing on their cousins
old enough to be his mama...and" rhinaldi "is a senior citizen
He's 25 and she's 35. Not too common to have a 10 year old mother.
She was an evil woman..who was sneaky and slowly poisoned him.
the young man is so gullible
possible SPOILER ALERT:
already before the letter mentions the possibility of poisoning I thought that arsenic poisoning was a fashionable way to get rid of husbands during the 1830s-50s as courts and forensics didn’t have a surefire way to prove such poisoning.
Arsenic causes headaches and dizziness and other neurological symptoms and one can get better and worse if it’s done sporadically, but it builds up nonetheless and causes death eventually.
77 years old Esmond Knight 😊
The family jewels is a big turn on.
Géraldine is so special, cute and weird. good choice
Love the comments..yes I saw 2017 version..this is different..he is a fool not raised right by the upper classes to distrust..lol.
But casting not bad..everything can go either way...the way story planned.
The Burton -Dahavilland version is miles better than this!
Saying she goldigger and master at manipulation poor Phil going to be in ruined
Phil's like a lottery winner. Never had to manage a fortune and once it's in his hands, tosses it to the first woman he's enamored of. Sigh.
Harry ?
Man this Philip makes bad decisions...
haha indeed
Yes the effect of all those love endorphins on his young brain.
NOOOO Phil!! He is making horrible choices. He is going to end up broke.
THIS is painful to watch
@Margareth Louis - Isn't it just!!? I found it unbelievable that having been raised for so many years by his benefactor you'd think he'd have more sense not to see behind Rachel. And he had, after all, read the letters telling about Rachel's drastic change in "character" post marriage. What an utter dork--why you almost want him to fall flat on his face never to get up again. Still, as you say, it is painful to watch.
They should have chosen a much more attractive actress ..would have been more believable.
She does look like a corpse....
Yes. And you're not alone in your observation.. myself, as well as the majority of the other people in this comment section, agree.
I don't agree. Geraldine Chapman is beautiful. She always was and still is. She's also an excellent actress, always was and always will be.
@@mothershelper1981 - and I wholeheartedly agree.
I'm entirely fed up with this beauty thing--so entirely myopic. Case in point, as actresses go, Meryl Streep is pleasant looking, but not beautiful in the modern day conventional sense, but damn, she can make you believe that she's a beauty of the highest order--if that's what it takes for her character to be authentic. This holds true for Ms. Chaplain.
Eye of the beholder. I expect you yourself are are a pictorial masterpiece in the looks department -my guess is by Picasso!
Wow
He follows her around like a puppy
Willful ignorance is so dan gerous
Ho God ! Im glad its over
This reminds me of Joe picking Kalma 😂 🤣.
Meghan Markle...
Yaacks yanks yikes 😬 😳 puck,go to London 🇬🇧 apartments 😬 😳 cake sweets 🎂
Lovely Yellow walls... Only in England. :)
pfff... Philip bad idea... very bad idea
Foolish Philip ... what kind of foolish love is this
Makes me think of my cousin Meg...
omg
2017 with Rachel Weisz is great compared to this 🤦🏼♀️
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A great story but the acting is horrendous.
Old movie with Olivia de Havilland and Burton, and the 2017 version with Rachel Weisz are both good productions. Check them out.
“Who is it?” .....who do you think? 😜
Guys are so gullible. 🤦
👏👏👏👌👌👌
The result of inbreeding. Not, as some people assume, limited to the lower classes.
Actually less in the lower classes. Upper class wants to keep money in the family so the inbreeding
This is the most tedious thing ever. The movie with Burton and De Haviland was magnificent, but this just sucks badly.
It does move very slowly.
The actress playing Rachel does looks like the old granny who has got nothing left on her body apart from the bones and also sounds like a very old lady!!!! Plus do not think she is good in acting at all!!!!
This guy is a fool unbelievable sad
Why be with your cousin any way?
OK
ok tv
Foolish lad ,,,
Harry ?
Lol oh
i do not remember a bbc movie with such poor acting.
+Haim Levy I agree. I think a lot of the acting here is almost amateurish.
+Haim Levy - The boy is good, but seems too young, too naive. Ms. Chaplin is wooden. She just says her lines without any sense of connection with the boy. they might as well be in separate rooms.
+James Vaughan - No comparison to Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, is there? Funny, James, that you and I should come upon this at the same time independently, isn't it?
+James Vaughan - Oh dear! Signor Rainaldi looks like Edgar Allan Poe, and sounds exactly like DRACULA. );-o
+Hyramess Hiramess LOL
lol "never leave me" as he tried to strangled her. only giving her a reason to push her away, totally walked into that. I don't feel sorry for him because he didn't think or listen to his Godfather. Plus it's not love, its lust, he thought he could buy his way into her bloomers.
"Fool and his money are soon parted" he didnt even have it for 24hrs
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