The Wicked Lady (1983)
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Faye Dunaway stars in Michael Winner's labored re-make of the 1945 swashbuckler, which was co-scripted by Leslie Arliss, the original director of the 1945 film. Dunaway is Lady Barbara Skelton, a lady of the royal class, who becomes a highway robber, taking up with Captain Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates), a highwayman and her lover. Because of a notorious whiping scene in which Lady Barbara and Jackson's girlfriend (Marina Sirtis) take horsewhips to one another, tearing their clothing to strategically-placed ribbons, the film was held back from release because Winner refused to cut the salacious footage. After corralling author Kingsley Amis, and directors John Schlesinger, Karel Reisz, and Lindsay Anderson to attest to the redeeming social value of the scene, the scene stayed in the film. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Faye Dunaway - Lady Barbara Skelton
- John Gielgud - Hogarth
- Prunella Scales - Lady Henrietta Kingsclere
- Glynis Barber - Caroline
- Helena McCarthy - Moll Skelton
- Marina Sirtis - Jackson's girl
- Hugh Millais - Uncle
- Catherine Neilson - Customer in Shop
- Lucy Hornak
- Maggie Rennie - Coach Passenger
- George Tovey - Man at Inn
- Pamela Cundell - Coach Passenger
- Norman Mitchell - Man at Inn
- Robert Putt - Man at Tyburn
- John Pierce Jones - Ringleader at Tyburn
- Roger Brierley - Clergymen at Tyburn Prison
- Arthur Whybrow - Storyteller at Tyburn
- Marianne Stone - Customer in Shop
- Ellen Pollock - Mrs. Munce
- Tony Martin - Vendor at Tyburn
- David Gant - Clergyman at Church
- Alan Bates - Jerry Jackson
- Denholm Elliott - Sir Ralph Skelton
- Oliver Tobias - Kit Locksby
- Joan Hickson - Aunt Agatha
- Mollie Maureen - Doll Skelton
- Nicholas Gecks - Ned Cotterell
- Guinevere John - Landlady at Inn
- Cyril Conway - Doctor
- Malcolm Mudie - Courtier
- Ewen Solon - Clergyman at Tyburn
- Terence Mountain - Law Officer
- Teresa Codling - Nell Gwynne
- Mark Sinden - Lord Dolman
- Judy Maynard
- Celia Imrie - Servant at Inn
- Mark Burns - Charles II
- Dermot Walsh - Lord Marwood
- John Savident - Squire Thorton
- Fiona McArthur - Bridesmaid
- Derek Francis - Lord Kingsclere
- Director(s):
- Michael Winner
- Writer(s):
- Leslie Arliss, Michael Winner
- Producer(s):
- Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
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