authorwriting
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I have a weakness for western movies and maybe that's the reason why I enjoy this one so much when I find so many others in the series to be bland and boring. It predates Blazing Saddles and, to my mind, makes better use of genre clichés.
Sid James is superb as the Rumpo Kid. As are the rest of the regulars though Kenneth Williqams' accent takes some getting used to. The studio sets look suitably like the American frontier and the plot involves all the western conventions from cowardly sheriffs, Indians and the obligatory bar room brawl.
Carry on laughing indeed.
Sid James is superb as the Rumpo Kid. As are the rest of the regulars though Kenneth Williqams' accent takes some getting used to. The studio sets look suitably like the American frontier and the plot involves all the western conventions from cowardly sheriffs, Indians and the obligatory bar room brawl.
Carry on laughing indeed.
The characters of Edmund and Baldrick were not yet fully realised and the scripts unlike those in all later seasons, were co-written by Rowan Atkinson. And it is very much Rowan's show where the later seasons featured more of an ensemble feel.
Another point that sets this first season apart from its later episodes is that there is a large amount of location filming which proved expensive for the BBC to produce and they initially balked at the idea of a second series until they were assured that it would if recommissioned be stage bound and filmed before a studio audience. The best episodes are The Queen of Spain's Beard and The Black Seal but each are minor classics in their own right.
Excellently acted and written and a great introduction to the chronicles of the Blackadder dynasty.
Another point that sets this first season apart from its later episodes is that there is a large amount of location filming which proved expensive for the BBC to produce and they initially balked at the idea of a second series until they were assured that it would if recommissioned be stage bound and filmed before a studio audience. The best episodes are The Queen of Spain's Beard and The Black Seal but each are minor classics in their own right.
Excellently acted and written and a great introduction to the chronicles of the Blackadder dynasty.
Basically a soap opera of it's day with Queen Liz and Elexis Carrington fighting over the handsome, young cad, Sir Walter Raleigh who among other things introduced cigarettes to the world. The movie won an academy award for its costumes which unlike the events depicted in the film are spot on in their historical detail.
Bettie Davies is brilliant as The Queen (the template for Miranda Richardson's version in Blackadder II) and Richard Todd looks the part as the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh. The DVD cut of this film, issued as part of the Studio Classics series, is pristine with the digital format bringing out the sheer spectacle of colour in the scenes in the royal court.
A great old fashioned drama.
Bettie Davies is brilliant as The Queen (the template for Miranda Richardson's version in Blackadder II) and Richard Todd looks the part as the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh. The DVD cut of this film, issued as part of the Studio Classics series, is pristine with the digital format bringing out the sheer spectacle of colour in the scenes in the royal court.
A great old fashioned drama.