QUARTERMAINE'S TERMS (Edward Fox, John Gielgud) 1987

[@teacakelake5098]

Absolutely exquisite. Almost 2 hours, all set in more or less one room, and yet tremendously captivating. A testament to everyone involved.

[@citizen1163]

So many excellent actors back then. Thin on the ground now. Thanks for sharing.

[@barracuda7018]

The day of the jackal.. After you see the first version of 1973 with Edward Fox, you will laugh at the latest one with Bruce Willis starring.

[@matthewgabbard6415]

That's for damn sure

[@Happyheart146]

Nobody could have played that better than Fox. One of the best actors thus country produced ! Loved him in A Bridge too far, too.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

Fox was magnificent in that…I’ve watched it several times.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

@@Happyheart146 And in The Go-Between...and in Edward and Mrs. Simpson. At the time you watched it and thought, "Who else?"

[@feurigerStern]

Fox was also superb in Force Ten from Navarone.

[@quietjohn5523]

Most enjoyable. This is a fine ensemble, and would be hard matched today. Where is one to look for such insight, subtlety, and nuance but in British drama.Thanks for posting!

[@dulcineadurance1391]

This has blown me away! Fantastic ! Thank you from San Diego, California.

[@Happyheart146]

Always reading between the lines like peeling an onion to get behind the netting, typical of us English! Edward Fox, probably Britain's finest actor and definitely the most handsome. This was brilliant! Thank you for the upload.

[@harmoniabalanza]

He is VERY attractive.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

Nigel Havers for me, at least in the handsome stakes.

[@Happyheart146]

@@VLind-uk6mb aah, but Fox has a slightly quirky front tooth. I love quirks! Gives him tge edge.

[@MrWindermere123]

Even the music was memorable - the cello suggested the sadness below the brittle surface of polite geniality. I was a teacher and recognised the the stress, the tears, the rivalry and the dubious loyalty of the staff room, a place I tried to avoid as much as possible.

[@robertburke4603]

Thank you for sharing this gem with everyone. We seem to share the same eclectic tastes, so it was a pleasure to subscribe to your channel...and to be the 640th "like". Something about round numbers.

[@daffidkane8350]

This is the England I knew and loved. I do not recognize England today!

[@mr.ic3blackracecodechess42]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing.

[@robertasirgutz8397]

Still in love with Edward Fox.. Soooooo handsome.

[@orvillebrown7235]

To be compelled by insightful dialogue all contained with little action in such a small space. What a play!

[@donnyetta]

I feel mean now - All the times my colleagues asked me to do this and that with them, but I said I was busy. Insightful film, thank you.

[@rajnasarda]

Super cast and brilliant direction. Thank you for uploading.

[@roniklinkhamer4031]

That was really fantastic, sledging my soul so to speak, wow, thanxx for sharing!

[@TheGigixxxxx]

Excellent. The best of plays and amazing cast. Totally captivating. The subtleties in each thread of life...Thank you for posting this the original and, in my view, the best version.

[@johnmosbrook9964]

I saw this for the first time in the 1980's when it first aired in the US. I'm still viewing it. It's a rare thing.

[@emrot]

A great play IMHO, and hard to imagine this cast ever being surpassed. Fox is incredible. The ending is "Oh, Lord", so, so affecting. :(

[@alanberry1318]

A very thought provoking film with some excellent acting. Thank you.

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Agony. Loved it. Many thanks, Genevieve L.

[@deborahrobertson8606]

So wonderful. This is the excellence that our country used to represent.

[@themisdracku2533]

I have seen this play many times including a version when Edward Fox played the character of Mark and Clive Francis played Quartermaine at Richmond. Its quintessential Englishness is the thread of the film and anguished souls live insular lives in bubbles sharing space but not existence. The Meadle character adds the bluntness of saying what he sees, but the charm and attraction of Quartermaine is that he sees nothing beyond what is there but relays what his upbringing will allow only. His sadness is expertly concealed, and remains ever present and imminently about to break through although, his life is constantly restrained by his desire to be involved in the lives of others as he has little to be useful for but for the sake of feeding off the lives of his colleagues, and he has no life but what they provide for him. Cutting him loose deprives him of his structure and his reason for living, and no longer will anyone be listening to his reminiscences, if they ever did. Stiff upper lips were developed from these circumstances. I applaud Edward Fox in this my most favourite play and film, and I think it is his finest performance. If ever I could, I would like to meet him to thank him for his performance, as I have appreciated this in the theatre many many times and in the many hundreds of times I have watched this film version. Eleanor Bron gives the performance of her life, utterly believable and vulnerable and lost in her life of sacrifice and regret, almost penitence, holding a torch for an old flame that will never reignite for her. My thanks to Peter Jeffrey for his restrained performance, which enlivens his character. It is something that everyone should watch, and send thanks to Simon Gray for his wit, his sensitivity and his sheer craft. The observation of the foibles of the characters is expert and deep. It is brilliant. Perhaps beyond brilliant. Thank you all.

[@genevievel5309]

Thank you for your very interesting insights into this wonderful play - I have only just found your comments and found them to be most enjoyable and thought provoking.

[@themisdracku2533]

@@genevievel5309 Thank you for your kind words. I love this play and would simply encourage anyone else to see this version, although, I liked Rowan Atkinson’s version it never moved me as does Edward Fox. On many occasions I also get lost in my own fog, perhaps that’s why Quartermaine touches me so emotionally. I often feel the isolation and distance from those around me which is at the core of my soul and perhaps his. Encourage others to watch this version. Those who genuinely understand him will shed a tear in recognition of themselves. Thank you

[@cathydoyle8804]

Thank you for your lovely and interesting comment...

[@themisdracku2533]

@@cathydoyle8804 Thank you for your kind words. Encourage others to watch this, if you feel that is something you can do. I wish that people and times were as civilised as they were in the days when this play is set, and Cambridge less the bazar that it sometimes is. That is probably why I feel St John is a kindred spirit. Best wishes.

[@Happyheart146]

Henry could have at least shook Singins hand.. Then we're left with a view of a ghost, through a window from a garden in a college at Cambridge. Leaves tears every time.

[@gerdamaria3333]

Edward Fox playing an obtuse, colourless character and getting away with it brilliantly! Great fun, thank you!

[@PhilBaird1]

I think those are the wrong adjectives. He plays it beautifully. No one seems to pick up on the wonderful black humour either.

[@rogernetzer1054]

A hearttbreaking, exquisite performance by Edward Fox.

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

Just watched it again after many years. I had almost forgotten what a great play it is with such fabulous acting by all.

[@carolinebarnes6832]

So delightful. Thanks for the upload.

[@maryearll3359]

What an amazing film, just very clever and witty dialogue about characters and the passing of time. ❤

[@lechat8736]

Genevieve L Brilliant and sadly very, very near to true life. Thanks a lot for sharing :)))

[@writeract2]

What will poor St. John do, and how cold-hearted the seemingly warm, empathetic Henry turned out to be - you never know who people really are.

[@leedawson5615]

Edward Fox and John Gielgud - sign me up🙏🇨🇦

[@amirbostani734]

This is gold; thanks for posting it.

[@adriancook7078]

Gosh, to see so many lives so sadly lived.

[@lynnjaxful]

Absolutely wonderful. If you have ears to hear. So true.

[@darjeeling6432]

A wonderful film. Thank you.

[@robinhard111]

All were good in this, but Edward Fox was superb.

[@genevievel5309]

Couldn't agree more - an exceptional performance in a wonderful, thought provoking play.

[@julianrbrown]

This is such a brilliant comedy with wonderful acting by all. Gielgud and Fox are both superb. Such a shame there isn't a better quality version of the video. The BBC dropped the ball in not putting this on DVD.

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

It's unavailable

[@genevievel5309]

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[@genevievel5309]

@@bootstrapperwilson7687 I have only just noticed this - I am so sorry, I gave you the wrong link.

[@mckavitt]

Eleanor Bron, right? Love her!! Thanks so much for this gem. Edward Fox is so talented too. A beauty! 👏

[@marieannwalsh662]

Yes. Excellent play.

[@dadodydo]

I say, only an Englishman could say "thank you" when told that he is sacked. Excellent actors, excellent everything.

[@nezperce2767]

When you see just one minute of the whole movie and you realize that's a pretty good feeling that is the fox in both meanings

[@fahmyayoob5775]

There can never be another Edward Fox , ever . PUKKA ENGLISHMAN

[@johnmosbrook9964]

With my 78 year-old wisdom, I recognize all the characters as hopeless jerks stewing about their trivial problems. I laughed all the way to the end. Horace Walpole: 'To people who think, life is a comedy and a tragedy for those who feel.'

[@genevievel5309]

Have always liked that Walpole quote. I think that in Quartermaine's Terms it is both a tragedy and a comedy - tragic for St. John, definitely not a comedy.

[@indrekkpringi]

So you are a lover of meaningless trivial lives... Join the billions just like you.

[@chadfarber6147]

…but the problem is: I THINK and FEEL…now, there you have it…Aries birth with moon in Cancer 🤷🏼‍♀️… shout out to Dr. Sara G who always posts that Walpole comment at the end of her emails 🇺🇸🤗

[@evelynwaugh4053]

I think Mel Brooks' `Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you (someone else) falls into an open manhole and dies', is apt. .

[@catchaser52]

@johnmosbrook9964 I know what you mean, I'm not far behind. I am just sad that as we get old, we get more callous and yet we have to watch movies like this to the end. Not me i lasted 5 minutes.

[@richardshiggins704]

So refreshing and excellent acting . Unlike American cinema I could understand every word spoken . Impossible to truly read the human mind . I would strongly recommend The Browning Version with Albert Finney , Greta Scacchi and Michael Gambon . A very similar subject matter .

[@c.a.savage5689]

The original one was with Michael Redgrave. Stunning.

[@iwaisman]

Thanks

[@gilesglossop5071]

Poor wretched, doomed St. John, the victim of the worst fate possible - spiritual death through agreeability. Be polite for sure, but that can only go so far; you have to have the courage and the risk to make your mark in the short time you've got and dig for deeper truths. The odds are somewhere down the road you're going to upset and annoy someone, but so be it. But if all you're ever choosing to do is to be indiscriminately consensual and acquiescent, tossing out relentless platitudes, you will only get walked over continually, laughed at occasionally, pitied more and finally, just forgotten. And the punchline is that all these people that you've been trying to please so much for all this time were never worth it in the first place. ....1:24 Quatermaine: She's a wonderful girl! Dennis: You'll like her even more when you meet her Ha! Ha!

[@PhilBaird1]

Derek.

[@tosca8571]

Happy birthday Edward Fox!

[@tosca8571]

Happy Foxian birthday again! How time flies!

[@sallyvanderweele2299]

Well written with accomplished actors. British Tv at its best.

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

Eddie managed to lnsult and Needle everyone in his vicinity. And Old Queen who loved to Hurt everyones feelings And revel in the damage he's done. Met many People like him over the Years. A swift kick to the Groin is what he needed

[@dmisso42]

Nobody plays better eccentric Poms than the Poms.

[@edkent8140]

10/10 brilliant

[@pycroft]

Am I drunk or is something peculiar going on with the screen ?

[@citizen1163]

Hahaha you might be drunk but the screen is occasionally wobbly.

[@richardshiggins704]

Thought the same so threw my medication out !

[@PhilBaird1]

I've never seen that in anything else. It must be the print but it's only the background scenery that wobbles ? Don't understand that...

[@sheiladobbs5486]

Loved it ❤

[@Baskerville22]

Tessa Peake-Jones (playing Anita) I recall from an episode of Midsomer Murders, Faithful Unto Death. One tires of Gielgud after a while, particularly as i've just finished watching Summer's Lease and Time after Time.

[@alfredt1219]

"One tires ..." THAT was the act. The brilliance was his ability to make us feel that way...

[@francisheperi4180]

😊

[@c.a.savage5689]

He needs the distilled vinegar of Ralph Richardson's temperament. Together they are perfection.

[@johnmosbrook9964]

Sinn-Jinn is a good, decent fellow, a lone person who is lonely and craving some friendship. He's pitiable because he's needy and doesn't recognize how silly people can be, what A-holes they are and how lucky he is to have a life uncomplicated by women nor anyone else.

[@autodidact2499]

It's "St. John", pronounced SIN-jin.

[@harmoniabalanza]

well he sees to their essence, he is like Jesus. He just knows to offer kindness, it doesn't matter how ridiculous and jaded and self-absorbed they are, they are just people to him.

[@harmoniabalanza]

This is hilarious. Around 1997 I took a course in how to teach ESL, with the idea of changing my career. All it took was that one class to make me run screaming in the other direction. I still shudder to think of how dismal and tedious it seemed. My skin crawled with boredom....I suppose someone in the class liked it, though, and is now covered in chalk.

[@lyndapoysor5573]

I can't hear it and the video swims as if the cameraman were drunk.

[@romanclay1913]

THE DAY OF THE JACKAL top of the top.

[@romanclay1913]

DAY OF THE JACKEL's director, Fred Zinnemann is an overlooked filmmaker: HIGH NOON, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, THE NUN'S STORY and my all-time favorite, JULIA(1977) with Jane Fonda. But Vanessa Redgrave's performance as Julia shines in a film filled with great performances. Set in the 1930's, the themes of anti-fascism, friendship, art and theater are blended to perfection. It captures the plight of a writer, Lillian Hellman/Fonda, as she struggles with her first play. We see Hellman walking on the beach, and in the background the turbulent ocean waves are churning like the thoughts in her head. The apogee is a fraught scene between Hellman and Julia in a Berlin tavern as Hellman smuggles in cash for anti-Nazi activities, and while Fonda is excellent, Fonda herself said Redgrave's performance was on an entirely elevated level.

[@Eddy191152]

Acting at it best!, just like only British can do it.

[@CarolFremel-my4hs]

Lovely

[@melanieohara6941]

Ah, faculty politics and the sting of dull obfuscation-I remember it well.😩

[@jennifermorgan8348]

Tessa Peake Jones now in Grantchester

[@hollingsworth_hound]

What is up with the camerawork? It's like it's being projected onto fabric and there's a slight breeze. Everything wavers.

[@cmcull987]

Somehow at six minutes or so, a person says he has a car but loses it to his wife. But he does not drive. I'm trying to understand that.

[@genevievel5309]

It is simply Clive Francis's character - Mark - being irrational because his wife has just left him.

[@PhilBaird1]

It's because he's now lost his car and his chauffeur as well.

[@fredbayato1808]

Teacher leave us kids alone!

[@joanbeeldens6131]

Would have loved to have watched this but it’s to blurry 😢

[@genevievel5309]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYqpiYpJaKesU

[@adjbeynon7835]

52:16 Henry leaves without his briefcase again!

[@deborahglaser981]

I wish all those that upload these movies, would at least give some information about the plot!! Thanks though for putting them on You tube for us all to watch!!❤

[@genevievel5309]

Why not look the plot up at the IMDB? Glad you enjoyed it though 💐💐

[@deborahglaser981]

Shouldn’t have to. It’s part of your responsibility if you want to get likes and make money from putting it out there. Just do the job thoroughly.

[@genevievel5309]

@@deborahglaser981 I don't get any money from this at all. Incidentally, if you had read my short commentary accompanying the film you would have seen that I have uploaded a much clearer copy of 'Quartermaine's Terms' at kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYqpiYpJaKesU

[@sylviaroberts8103]

@@deborahglaser981. I think it’s very impertinent of you to lecture a stranger on their ‘responsibilities’ when all the person has done is to make available to you a work of art. And then to insult the person by assuming they have money on their mind. Are you always like that?!

[@mattneillninasmom]

British academics always seem to be teetering on the edge of hysteria and triviality. Real Life (such as it is) always takes a back seat to the form and formality of academia with its protocols and prescribed phrases until the people become cardboard cutouts of themselves.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Terrence Rattigan.

[@inganorden1816]

In an earlier scene, Henry came back because he had forgotten his briefcase. After talking to Melanie, he left - again without the briefcase. When everyone came back after a holiday, he was carrying it. 🤔 These characters are all so pathetic, keeping true feelings bottled up until they almost explode, always showing a bland face. I was brought up the same way: always smiling and polite, keep your mouth shut when it comes to personal matters, and don't make a spectacle of yourself. If you want to cry and be "moody", go to your room and don't come out until you're "normal" again. Feelings are a sign of weakness and it's embarrassing to display them at anytime, outside of weddings and funerals.

[@doreekaplan2589]

Like Fox. Sir G....eh we don't have actors who come off in the U.S. who come off as he did....not an American character type. People don't act oh too too too. Don't know if any still do in England.

[@harmoniabalanza]

49:00 gee, real people with real feelings and real relationships, for better or worse. They work 24/7 at pretending not to feel, to be in "top form," hanging by a thread, and then--

[@mariefrancethomas3804]

Who is Thomas ?

[@genevievel5309]

Sir John Gielgud's character's partner.

[@chinenyejacinta8678]

I say! What will become of Sadding? How will he fend for himself? Good Lord!

[@rmbandy835]

Apologies, perhaps I'm a peasant, I'm 5 mins in and bored to death, can someone please post a quick run down on the plot (if there is one).

[@dolinaj1]

This charming film avoided dreary cliches, despite the stereotypical bumbling English profs, thanks to a marquee cast and a script in which messy private adult lives breach the usually imperturbable veneer of public school life.

[@gregoryburridge726]

Chekov,, a beacon of creative inovation.The creation of frescoes usually were done with a tracing of the originals, called cartoons The writers of this seem to have taken dramatic cartoons though using them in a collage fashion,( snipets of chekov and Ibsen ) ultimately with little cathargic impulse..

[@gregoryburridge726]

The acting even more than the directing,offered much value for viewing.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

Maybe you should take their ESL course.

[@PhilBaird1]

I love how the play takes a Chekhovian turn immediately after the dig at him not understanding comedy.

[@jambodjembe]

Good upload but next time please keep away from that stabilisation key. 🥴😱

[@genevievel5309]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYqpiYpJaKesU

[@jdrancho1864]

That visual distortion is sooo distracting.

[@genevievel5309]

See my link above to a better copy of this video which I uploaded earlier this year.

[@jimclark6256]

Do you have it in the English language, these actors are great at mumbling

[@autodidact2499]

Their English is much better than your spelling.

[@hookbeak3516]

@@autodidact2499 Grammar seems to elude the pair of you.

[@hookbeak3516]

If they speak the Queen's English with RADA diction how can they be mumbling? You forgot the L. The picture is dreadful.

[@dadodydo]

There's something wrong with your hearing.

[@johnlawrence2757]

Just occasionally broadcast television comes up with something worth watching (it would indeed be the devil’s world if they NEVER came up with a good programme). On the rare occasions they do one would expect to find someone like Simon Gray involved. Or the likes of Dennis Potter - much to the latter’s chagrin

[@genevievel5309]

So very pleased that you enjoyed it ❤❤

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Unwatchable. Whoever made this recording should have turned off image stabilisation.

[@harmoniabalanza]

SQ is a better human being than any of them, and Henry pulls a zinger, don't he? The dolts (teachers!) refuse SQ's genuine offers of kindness and friendship--which is love, really, when, if they welcomed him, they'd be so much happier! If Melanie, bitter desperate old maid, said "Sinjun, I see what you mean about the swans, they are lovely." I don't need to write out the whole recipe, I'll just show the class half of it, they'll get the idea. And please do come to talk to my mother at tea, it would relieve me so." Honesty-- human beings just can't stand it.

[@MD-gw9kj]

You understand. The only one so far. Thank you.

[@Kirkee7]

Quality is poor.

[@genevievel5309]

Try kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYqpiYpJaKesU

[@MarkInLA]

Too blurry or out of focus.. That's the thumbs down...

[@genevievel5309]

If you had taken the trouble to read the notes accompanying the above video you would have seen that I uploaded a clearer copy of this film at kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYqpiYpJaKesU This may not come up to your exacting standards but many other people seem to have found it quite enjoyable.

[@soniavadnjal7553]

Is this a comedy?

[@harmoniabalanza]

starts off as one and then...

[@gazitjewelry2834]

Horrendous, just as it intended to be

[@angloaust1575]

Depressing dialogue Gielgud better in summer lease!

[@thraciangrapes]

Hilarious banter 🤣 Much ado about nothing made into a brilliant script 👏

[@castlerock58]

This is unwatchable.

[@genevievel5309]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYqpiYpJaKesU

[@indrekkpringi]

Yugh.