Oh, yes. I mean, my second reaction to that casting, after I stopped laughing, was that I knew from Poldark he ought to be great at the confession scene - and he was!
He was! And when you phrase it like that accounts for what he's doing in As You Like It. It is definitely what he's doing in his episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes. That entire script builds to Clive Francis explaining himself and it's great.
liadt was very kind and made a dvd of it off YT, because the actual DVD release is not really obtainable any more & obv I loved it with that cast anyway.
I am very glad you have that. I just watched it off YouTube. I may have been ruined for Colonel Brandons by Alan Rickman, but otherwise I enjoyed it very much! The practicality of the proposal scene reminded me favorably of a similar touch in Stand-In (1937), against stiff competition possibly Leslie Howard's geekiest film and consequently dear to me.
Ha, but of course!
I hadn't even finished Francis' plotline when I read Middlemarch and he made so much sense as Fred, it was rough. If he had an ingenue period, it must have lasted about ten seconds. The BBC is supposed to have six out of seven episodes in their archives and given the state of some of their other long-sought releases, I don't see the impediment.
It is like the way every single thing about David Collings makes so much more sense when you realise he started out with playing Raskolnikov and then just murdered, angsted, broke down, died, and wept on for at least a decade and a half, with interruptions for being non-human.
He seemed a lot healthier when he wasn't human!
although he will forever be iconic for doing his level best to sell the DW villain who somehow hasn't noticed he still has a working eye under his eyepatch. Sometimes actors really earn their pay.
I can respect that. (Better or worse than having to be a space moth?)
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He was! And when you phrase it like that accounts for what he's doing in As You Like It. It is definitely what he's doing in his episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes. That entire script builds to Clive Francis explaining himself and it's great.
liadt was very kind and made a dvd of it off YT, because the actual DVD release is not really obtainable any more & obv I loved it with that cast anyway.
I am very glad you have that. I just watched it off YouTube. I may have been ruined for Colonel Brandons by Alan Rickman, but otherwise I enjoyed it very much! The practicality of the proposal scene reminded me favorably of a similar touch in Stand-In (1937), against stiff competition possibly Leslie Howard's geekiest film and consequently dear to me.
Ha, but of course!
I hadn't even finished Francis' plotline when I read Middlemarch and he made so much sense as Fred, it was rough. If he had an ingenue period, it must have lasted about ten seconds. The BBC is supposed to have six out of seven episodes in their archives and given the state of some of their other long-sought releases, I don't see the impediment.
It is like the way every single thing about David Collings makes so much more sense when you realise he started out with playing Raskolnikov and then just murdered, angsted, broke down, died, and wept on for at least a decade and a half, with interruptions for being non-human.
He seemed a lot healthier when he wasn't human!
although he will forever be iconic for doing his level best to sell the DW villain who somehow hasn't noticed he still has a working eye under his eyepatch. Sometimes actors really earn their pay.
I can respect that. (Better or worse than having to be a space moth?)