Lorna Doone
by Mike Barker
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Actor: Aidan Gillen, Amelia Warner, Anthony Calf, Martin Clunes, Richard CoyleDirector: Mike Barker
Producer: Alison Gee
Producer: Deirdre Keir
Producer: Delia Fine
Producer: Gareth Neame
Producer: Jane Tranter
Writer: Adrian Hodges
Writer: R.D. Blackmore
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
DVD Reviews of Lorna Doone
DVD Review: Great Family Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good movie. It is morally clean and teaches duty, honor and justice. I recommend it highly.DVD Review: I love this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
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!DVD Review: Not A&E's Usual Great Productions
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
DVD Review: Excellent acting of a moving story
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD offers an excellent acting of an extremely moving story that includes love, revenge, grace, loyalty and moderation versus fanaticism and evil. DVD Review: Great Family-Friendly Entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
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 cold of the misty green moors in your bones. It's good to see the venerable Peter Vaughn once again playing the crusty, slightly crazed patriarch, the type of role he's played to perfection, going all the way back to Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, more than thirty years ago. And I was very surprised to see Aidan Gillan playing his evil, treacherous, scheming grandson Carver Doone, having seen him more recently in season 3 of HBO's The Wire, as the scheming and treacherous councilman Calcetti, complete with amazingly authentic eastern US accent.
Gun experts might find it problematic that the single shot flintlock pistols are fired continuously during battle scenes, as if the guns were revolvers or held magazines! But I quibble.....
The two young leads make a very handsome couple. Lorna is played perfectly by the stunningly beautiful Amelia Warner, with her flawless, dewy complexion, magnificent lips, fabulous eyes. You can easily see why she would be an object of obsession! Her warmth and genuine compassion shine through as well, making her a paragon of virtue and beauty.
This would make a great evening or two of family entertainment. And you will probably want to read the book as well.
Description of Lorna Doone
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
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