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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767036269
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767036263
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 9374
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 11, 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Star-crossed lovers, feuding family, royal plots, noble destinies, and salt-of-the-earth heroes. No wonder R.D. Blackmore's romantic classic has been a perennial favorite. Amelia Warner (Michael Caine's innocent child bride in Quills) is Lorna, the beautiful young brunette 'queen' of the feral Doone clan in this latest adaptation, a handsome 2.5-hour co-production between the BBC and A&E. The once noble line now lives out of a swamp fortress and preys off the local farmers and tradesmen, but the family patriarch (Peter Vaughan) has hatched a plot to win back his title and his land. Handsome John Ridd (Richard Coyle) swears vengeance against the Doones when they murder his father, but he falls for Lorna, and the rakish, ruthless Doone scion (Aiden Gillen, who swaggers through the drama with a perpetual sneer) refuses to give up his claim on the girl without a fight.
This is the kind of British romantic adventure that decries the tradition of nobility and privilege while rewarding its heroes with those very privileges, all within a grand framework of melodramatic twists, thrilling battles, and chivalrous heroics. Director Mike Barker creates an appropriately larger-than-life world at once pastoral and savage for his little epic--shot in the verdant British countryside, where a lush forest green permeates every outdoor scene, while the dusky interiors glow with candlelight--giving in completely to the sweeping emotional melodrama at the core of the story. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I love this movie!
This is a wonderful movie! It is complete and entertaining. The actors are wonderful and the scenery is amazing! It's also a beautiful love story!
Rating:  - Not A&E's Usual Great Productions
I love A&E's high quality entertainment movies; sadly this movie is disappointing. The movie doesn't flow, and it's hard to relate and become involved with the characters because the movie doesn't flow. It's watchable, but you wouldn't want to waste your time watching it again.
Rating: - Excellent acting of a moving story
This DVD offers an excellent acting of an extremely moving story that includes love, revenge, grace, loyalty and moderation versus fanaticism and evil.
Rating: - Great Family-Friendly Entertainment
A very nice mounting of the old romance novel by R.D. Blackmore. Production values are very good, especially the fortress erected by the outlaw Doones, the costumes, and the battle scenes. Lovely hill and dale landscapes of Wales--even though the story is set in county Devon--are a major plus.
One wonders why the exiled Doones, a Scottish clan, so long to return to their ancient homelands in the north, when it's even more wet, frosty, and desolate up there! You can feel the damp and ... Read More
Rating: - one to watch and watch again
I read this book over and over as a teen but it had been perhaps twenty years since my last reading when I found this dvd in the library.
Upon reflection, I think I have to agree with the reviewer who found this portrayal of Lorna unsatisfactory as her range did feel pretty limited. However, I have long since forgotten that first minor impression in the spell that the rest of the production creates. Mrs. Ridd is engagingly portrayed. John Ridd is stalwart, honest, and charming. The ... Read More
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