PERSUASION (1971) Episode I - Part 1/12

BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Persuasion
• Jane Austen
• Ann Firbank
• Bryan Marshall
• BBC
• adaptation
• Howard Baker
• episode

[steffenLarsen54]

lol, I had given up on this version, the offers being NTSC or on VHS. Thank you for putting this up on Youtube, I am MUCH obliged.

[TheSundae13]

another version! for classic lover like me! : )

[HermioneNo1]

First impression: Bo-horing, and Anne behaves like a sophisticated married woman, much too proud and self-confident, despite from being played by a bad actress...this is the first time I would prefer Elisabeth...lol. She's so nice here. Sir Walter's ok, a bit too loud maybe, and his conceit in his looks is missing. Will I be able to watch the rest or do I rather read the book instead (or watch 1995 the zillionth time...:-))...

[hereslookinatyoukid1]

I'm on an Austen binge this week...should be studying, instead I keep watching and rewatching old period dramas!! I love the newest adaptations, but I can appreciate these old ones too, they have a charm of their own!

[SelenaMulan]

@Bufurzone This reminded me of the book more; especially the beginning!

[SelenaMulan]

I love this; I've watched this a VERY LONG time ago; and rememerbered it; and when I saw it on here; I wondered and it is the same one I saw all those years ago; I thank u!!

[nightswimmer99]

@aDieuSeul I agree. Everything is so stylized and less genuine than in the later versions, right down to the acting. Even the indoor scenes in more recent versions don't have such a staged feel to them.

[aDieuSeul]

Most adaptations of classic novels made in the seventies appear as though they are filmed on the stage of a theatre.

[Bufurzone]

LOL!! they killed the characters, butchered them brutally!!!

[agora1955]

I do so love to read these marvellous comments, written by people who

still are capable of of expressing themselves in clear English. The decline

of this beautiful language on YT is dreadful to observe.

[ladypendragon15]

Anne is too pretty she's supposed to bloom throughout the book