Pride and Prejudice (1980): Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth "Stigmatized"

I know there are tons of P&P videos on this site, but they use clips from only the 1995 and 2005 versions. The BBC mini-series from 1980 deserves attention, too, so I've edited a music vid just for that purpose. Enjoy!

Elizabeth Garvie... as Miss Elizabeth Bennet
David Rintoul... as Mr. Darcy

Song: Stigmatized
By: The Calling

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• pride
• and
• prejudice
• romance
• jane
• austen
• british
• adaptation
• novel
• comedy
• period
• costume
• mv

[annalee12345]

if you read people's reviews on imdb, this is the BEST P&P version. I tend to think so too. Nowadays everything is just sexed up. It's like they upped the sex meter. So maybe the actors are equally good (maybe), but the sexy parts are distracting. This is LITERATURE. This is what you imagine Darcy and Lizzie to be, not great beauties, or sexpots, just what Jane Austen had imagined them to be. And that's what we want to see - the novel brought to life.

[anointed818]

is it possible to get the full version of pride and prejudice 1980. anyone can help?

[clare68healy]

Love this version. Thought Mrs Gardener was much more like the book in this version. She was very insipid in the 2005. Did this for Inter cert at school and we kept rewinding the bit at the end where he smiles!!!

[artemis8426]

MY FAVORITE VERSION.

[TheLaurieD]

I can understand why people say they like Colin Firth's Darcy better than Rintoul's, the problem is that mr Darcy, according to Jane Austen, is not exactly someone you would like at first sight. While every other P&P version always depict Darcy as the most stereotypical romantic hero, David Rintoul just gives us the character as Jane Austen wrote it - so, who thinks he's not as good as the others should probably read the novel with more attention.

[INA101a]

My fav version of Pride and Prejudice! Love and cherish it!

[shazcad]

I agree. This is such a great version. Why does no-one ever mention it in the same context as the more popular versions.

[flashblackrabbit]

I am doing a close reading and extraction of specific extractions from P& P at the moment and it is these two that I come back to in my head. other characters from the other bbc & film fill in.

[gretavill]

@Euclidia I agree with you!This is my favorite version!

[Euclidia]

For me, the end of this version, with Darcy offering his arm to Elizabeth and her accepting it when they finally become engaged, is more meaningful than all that kissy schmoosy stuff at the end of the 2005. Grew up on this version and will always love it the best.

[Euclidia]

@erikasfo Are you kidding? Jane is gorgeous in this version, unlike the 1995, where she looks like a chubby version of a badly-done image on an ancient Greek vase or something, with Jennifer as Lizzie clearly outshining her.

[teeger66]

Sure...he's cute...but does he take a quick dip in the pond??