Excelente recien lo vi 12 diciembre 2024 me encanta ese actor.

Yes, I remember watching this series originally back in 1976, shown on PBS, the U.S. equivalent of the BBC. It was/is *riveting!* In my opinion, this is one of the finest examples of quality television programming, ever.

Murder by Decree is my favorite Sherlock Holmes film.

This is the duo of films that at age eight got me interested in history. The depictions of common, noble, and royal gripped me. They also gave me insight into MPatHG.

Google Peter Wyngarde, if you have a spare hour.

Ronald lacey in a 1970s school swim cap🤣🤣🤣😜😜

I saw Peter Wyngarde in Borehamwood, Herts, England... ...i hate to bring you all down to earth with a thud but he was in a supermarket...

jason is king

What is with the weired clips of meghan and Harry , Elizabeth, et al? Is there some subliminal advertising going on here?

The first scene in the great BBC historical docudrama "The First Churchills" is of the meeting of John Churchill and D'artagnan at the siege of Masstricht and D'artagnan's fall. One hero enters one hero leaves...good stuff.

This was excellent. Thank you

This remains my favorite version of these stories adapted to another medium. If you dig around in the interview you'll find out that they were fighting with live swords and they were injured by the swords and other objects they were hitting each other with. Oliver Reed took a sword through the wrist. Christopher Lee who was a master swordsman was very wary of his co-stars who were all a little wild.

George MacDonald Fraser's excellent and very funny Flashman series of novels first saw the light of day in 1969 and the volume dealing with the fictional hero's adventures in the Crimean Campaign, Flashman At The Charge, was published in 1973. Essential reading for any student of the period.

Fun fact there were Aussies who fought in the Crimean war. When I was a kid I remember being at a museum with my grandfather and looking up at the painting and him telling me about his uncle or great uncle who got his shoulder blown off, or something.

Interesting detail, the drill sergeant broken by Cardigan reappears decades later in the same role of drill sergeant in Sharpe's Rifles.

The film is spectacular in its scale, uniforms, and cavalry charge. As a social commentary it has merit but too much emphasise given to the class "war". Absolutely, incompetence and ineptitude was rife to start, but then much was sorted out by the practicality and reality. There were competent leaders about, and improvements made, and failures punished. By wars end a lot was sorted out, and even more so in the Boer Wars, to the point that by WW1 the British Army was as professional as the British Navy. So too was progress within British society, much encouraged by a growing middle class. What the film fails in its class war accusations is that life was stark anyhow. Child mortality high, and average life expectancy was low, very. A soldier's lot was a chance to enrich themselves if they survived, or the alternative was to rot in poverty anyhow. Literacy within the ranks was dismally low. I just find the film too 1960s/70s socialistically biased, as if the Russian Revolution that had millions of peasants dead never happened. Who isn't for social progress, but to suggest that class holds it back is rubbish. Lack of wealth does. Both agricultural and industrial revolutions brought the wealth that would change society for the better. A better commentary would have been less class and more the last gasp of some outmoded old leadership that had already had its time, but somehow had clung on in a backwater of the military. Of its time, but pretty irrelevant today. Modern society has modern issues, and even different to those of the 1970 where socialism also showed how much a failure that could be in British society.

And the inspiration of Jason Wyngarde.

Aw rats. I thought that was his real hair.

An excellent critique of a classic British movie. My only complaint would be the petty and completely irrelevant cheap shots taken at Joe Biden and the Democrats. I should point out that no one is interested in this person's political views. Can you imagine Trump in command of an army. OMG!! I think I would prefer Raglan.

I love the film...excellent summary of the film...

I saw this movie at 11 yrz old. Suddenly I was not happy trusting leadership. I had read the poem earlier in the year. Cardigan was insane ruined me on authority in a fundamental sense

The trouble with Jason King is that he just looks ridiculous, and actually is ridiculous, just as all of his adventures are ridiculous. Not that there isn't fun along the way. And yes, I constantly have adoring women coming round to feed me strawberries and champagne.

I AGREE... THE BEST VERSION ❤ !

Vulgar fashions from this era.

You forgot Simon Ward as the Duke of Buckingham. He would later play Young Winston in a very good Churchill biopic.

Let's never forget Harry Enfield as Jason Queen ❤

I checked this show out cause apparently George RR Martin based Stannis Baratheon on George Bakers Tiberius. But after watching this I realize he straight up ripped off Cersei from Livia and the way she plots and positions her son to take the throne. She even murders her husband similar to Cersei. 😂😂

Thank you so much. Excellent work

I was familiar with Lupin, but now will be tracking this down. Thank you again!

You're shout out of Hawk the Slayer wins me over as a life-long subscriber.

My dad took my brothers and me to watch the Charge of the Light Brigade. Very down to earth film not like an American film which would be glossy and tidy

John Holmes must of been a fan

You going on about Patrick Stewart's wig is ignorant and tasteless in the extreme. Did you know that the word "Caesar" actually means "hairy one"? Sejanus would not have found it so easy to become a man of rank, power and status had he been bald. This might seem odd to us now, but it seems that the BBC wardrobe department at least got that memo and endeavoured to make the appearance of his character historically accurate. It appears that this memo never reached you, leading you to make such a crass and ignorant remark.

What a brilliant cast in a brilliant show. John Hurt’s bizarre dance and Livia’s evil, besides C-C-C-Claudius were outstanding.

HarrY EnfieldS The PlaYBoYS😄😄😄😊😊😊😃😃😃😄😊😃

5:53 The guy on the right is an imitation of me when a friend offers me a Montecristo #2 cigar and a glass of Macallan 18

Amazing Do Arsene Lupin

Nice video but BTW "Woke" originally referred to being aware of black history slavery etc and came out of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States but now has broadened it definition to include awareness of the struggles of all people who are disadvantaged by the majority, disabled people etc. So better being woke than ignorant of these things.

You cast forgets 1 most import thing.... The brave British soldier, poorly led to the end, but brilliant in battle ❤

Very good commentary on one of the greatest adventure films of all time. Every element is individually magical, and rarer still, all the elements come together successfully to create Cinemagic. In a brief aside, you mentioned "Murder By Decree", which still has the best pairing of actors for the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Christopher Plummer and James Mason in his final film. "Murder By Decree" is a brilliant, highly original and disturbing mystery by Bob Clark, whom some credit with the invention of the modern Slasher Flick (1974's "Black Christmas") but who also gave the world the most delightful Yuletide movie, "A Christmas Story". Thank you for bringing attention to the too-little-known combination of Sherlock Holmes with Jack the Ripper. Its images still haunt me, fifty years after my father took me to see it in a Montreal cinema. And here's hoping that the Flashman Papers will soon be produced as a Cable limited series or even better, as a series of movies released first to cinemas around the world. It is hard to believe that today's Political Correctness would permit the kind of language used in the novels. It is tougher still to imagine which actor would be perfect in the role of Harry Flashman, Esq., OBE, etc. etc. As of 2024, my pick would be the terrific Lee Pace, but he is steadily ageing out of the role of Flashy. In the 1970s, I would have picked Oliver Reed, but he was cast as Bismarck. They had better start soon! G-d bless George MacDonald Fraser for his Flashy and for his Musketeers! Hip-hip, Hoorah! --OronOfMontreal

21:00 hence the reverence for Mary Seacole.

The Crimea and Boer war reshaped the British army so it was far more effective in 1914.

Antonia’s treatment of Claudius reminds of Denathor’s (Sp?), treatment of Faramir.

This is longer than both movies combined. It will take a while to watch this.

Doubt very much if this went to the USA...not a lot did.

The Sopranos is the greatest TV show of all time but this is really impressive given the time period it was made and the production values.

It is, they are, terrific films.

outstanding film

And now the loony establishment of cultists want a repeat - but much bigger!

He did say, He Was a Bit of A Cult