He Knew He Was Right
by Tom Vaughan
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Actor: Anna Massey, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Palmer, Laura Fraser, Oliver DimsdaleDirector: Tom Vaughan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Bill Boyes
Producer: Charles Hubbard
Producer: Laura Mackie
Producer: Nigel Stafford-Clark
Producer: Rebecca Eaton
Writer: Andrew Davies
Writer: Anthony Trollope
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 235 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of He Knew He Was Right
DVD Review: Excellent story!
Summary: 5 Stars
He Knew He Was Right is a very enjoyable dvd to watch. Albeit the story was melancholy because he was so very paranoid, and the gentleman causing the paranoia knew he was stirring the pot! Bittersweet but with a definite moral point to lovers everywhere.
I love period pieces, the costumes, and the locations in which they are set. This is worth watching!
DVD Review: He "Believed" he was right - an Intrigue to watch
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this film to be immensely entertaining. For those who have not read Trollope's works - the film is yet another adaptation with multiple sub plots that link ever so slightly, to create a masterpiece well acted by both major and minor characters.
The film is sweepingly produced with detailed costuming and diverse characters: You cannot help but suspect the skulking Colonel Osborne [Bill Nighy], loathe the petulant preacher or the French sisters, and feel pity for Louis & Emily [Oliver Dimsdale & Laura Fraser](our star couple) in their scandalous dilemma, for which the main story revolves.
The film deals so much with trust and devotion in EACH of its storylines - The mistrusting ones making unhappy lives with their wives, daughters and livelihoods.....the devoted ones sacrificing their possible happiness for the ones they love.
Occasionally the characters break the "fourth wall" by conversing with the audience - at first I found this an awkward intrusion, but soon came to realize it was part of the story's charm - revealing either humorous or sad confidences.
Overall, it should not matter whether the ending is sad or happy - the meat of the matter is what is applause worthy or not....and it surely was a great story retold for me!
DVD Review: Not worth owning
Summary: 1 Stars
For those of you who fill your shelves with BBC period films because the plots are more complex and cleaner than today's fare, don't bother with this one.
There is nothing redeeming about this film aside from excellent production values. The main character is intent on misjudging his bride throughout the movie and the whole production winds down into a depressing and uninspiring death scene. There is no moral high-ground here, no lessons to be learned to make the hours worth spending, not even the mildly endearing subplot can rescue this dismal storyline.
I love period films, but I wish I hadn't bothered to pay for this one. I agree with the reviewer who suggested you rent it if you MUST watch every period film out there, but if the responses of those who have borrowed this film from me are any proof, they hated it as much as I do. I've stopped offering it to those who come by to borrow films.
DVD Review: Boring Flat Main Story, Somewhat Funny side story, Disjointed Passionless
Summary: 3 Stars
I wouldn't buy this one, rental only. The story is flat, happy couple gets married then jealousy and the resulting madness ensue with a struggle for custody thrown in. He was somewhat justified in his suspicions, but then goes mad and turns hateful and distrusting of the world and then intends to teach this to his son but dithers and relents only to kill himself through worry. I think the wives unbending and non-sacrifice with such a lack of understanding and empathy done with such a calm babe in the woods demeanor is horrible on her part as well, he wasn't asking for the world.
No effort to flesh out the husbands background and own growing up to help explain such a bizarre spiral is made, making this a very weak effort indeed. Both the husband and wives acting are very much flat as well, we expected it to build to something more passionate and concrete only to be shown a sort of whimper and then predictable end in unspecified death used interminably in Victorian literature.
The only interesting and entertaining part is the priest and his vacillations with respect to a number of women who seem to think he's so great. It's a funny interlude and contrast to the quite boring main story, oddly the two don't really intersect making for a disjointed production.
This just isn't in the same league as Pride, NorthSouth, Bleak House, WivesDaughters or a number of other English novel adaptations, you could skip it and not miss much.
DVD Review: A Good Film
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie has a good plot---The one or two sex scenes are very tame.
I'd rate them with a G rating.The lead gentleman thught he was right
about his wife's infidelity and lost everything.Good English acting. Shows English women as we have read them to be.
19th Century Britlit Classic
Description of He Knew He Was Right
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/16/2006 Rating: NrNovelist Anthony Trollope doesn't have the name recognition of his Victorian contemporary Charles Dickens, but he has all of Dickens's strengths and more--invigorating plots, eccentric characters bursting with life, and an insightful, panoramic view of English society. He Knew He Was Right starts with an idyllic romance between the well-off Louis Trevelyan (Oliver Dimsdale) and Emily Rowley (Laura Fraser). But when the rakish Col. Osborne (Bill Nighy, Love Actually) begins to visit her regularly, Louis becomes jealous--and the pressures of Victorian society soon turn this jealousy into an all-consuming possession that could destroy the lives of Louis, Emily, and their young son. This dark and harrowing story is deftly juxtaposed with two related tales: A blithely flirtatious clergyman finds himself fought over by a pair of squabbling sisters and a young woman struggles to find happiness despite the controlling grip of her miserly spinster aunt (the always superb Anna Massey, Angels & Insects, The Importance of Being Earnest).
The cast delivers wonderfully comic or heartbreaking performances, but much of this four-episode series' power comes from yet another outstanding adaptation by screenwriter Andrew Davies, who wrote the scripts for such BBC miniseries as Moll Flanders, Vanity Fair, and the hugely popular version of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth. The combination of Davies and Trollope results in a work of psychological depth, sly humor, and sheer storytelling mastery--just when you've decided someone is virtuous or odious, that character upends your judgment with an act unexpected yet completely plausible. He Knew He Was Right provides the pleasures of a thriller, a social satire, and a whirling romance. --Bret Fetzer
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