Product Details

• Actors: Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton
• Directors: Robert Bolt
• Format: NTSC
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Do Not Use
• VHS Release Date: June 16, 1992
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303425526
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,037 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The life of a passionate woman, March 4, 2003

By	L. J Nary (Indio, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is based on the story of Lady Lamb. She is a woman with strong emotions and at the beginning of the story is shown to have to take some concoction to quell her stridency. The actress, Sarah Miles, is outstanding. I felt like I was going through all the same emotions when I watched her act. Her need to be loved by someone who couldn't truly love. She had love but it was not enough. Her husband truly loved her but she pushed him away, distancing herself by their differentness. He was more logical and self-controlled as opposed to Lady Lambs excessive outpouring of whatever she was experiencing at the time. When she started the affair with Lord Byron, she couldn't care less for anyone, she gives into her feelings and forgets everything around her. Nothing matters but her expression. Yes, she was narcissitic but sad, very sad. She wanted the world to understand her emotions to accept passion at its extreme. Of course, this was not acceptable and still isn't. Her only rock was her husband who stood by her at all costs. This was so tenderly heartbreaking and I was touched moreso than many movies I have seen. And believe I have seen a whole lot. It is not an uplifting film and involves a scandal that ends in tragedy. It is very grating on the nerves, it is raw emotion that is acted out brilliantly by Miles. I hope you like it!

Lisa Nary

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lady Caroline Lamb a winner!, June 29, 2002

By	Rosalyn H. Martty "rmartty" (New Orleans, La. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love this video/movie. Actually I had seen it before and loved the story, based on true life story of Lady Caroline Lamb, and her husband, Irish Minister, Charles Lamb. This is a wanton love story of the love affair of Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron, and the degradation she suffered when she was no longer first in his eyes. The actors are fabulous, and Sylvia Miles is perfect in the part, and Richard Chamberlain as the handsome Lord Byron. Sir Laurence Olivier is the Duke of Wellington, and Margaret Leighton Lady Caroline Lamb's mother in law. This was the most notorious cabinet-level sex scandal of the 19th Century, and well worth watching. It is such a sad story too of "hell hath no fury of a woman scorned".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece of English Cinema, September 2, 2004

By	Miss Pettyflowers (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

I saw this film in a moment of illness which created delirious openness, and was completely floored. Theatrical and magnificent, like a piece of kabuki theater, mask-like and stylized, and yet quite visceral and immediate. Exquisite period costumes and settings, and a palpable sense of movement throughout. For example, the opening sequence shows Lady Caroline galloping impetuously over the moors, so English, so exciting, then dismounting and running through the halls, bursting through the doors, and saying breathlessly, "He has proposed!" Such a great way to show that the character is impatient, romantic, restless, maybe a little mad or at least a bit uncontrollable. Wonderful concise strokes like this throughout, as when Lord Byron is shown first as a kind of savage boxing a negro man for his supper. He is shown first to be brutal, sensual, earthy, before we know he is a great poet.

A rare period of film history, when the production values were still very high and formal, but the acting and stories were becoming more immediate and raw. The film is thematic rather than narrative in purpose. It carries the story more with "mood" than with plot, which is very cinematic and quite poetic. Sometimes historical facts are altered to create a better montage, which as a filmmaker I completely agree with. No boring biopic here.

Gorgeous color photography, wonderful handling of crowd scenes (there is an interesting look into the rousing early 19th century Parliament), and stellar acting by Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, and Richard Chamberlain. Chamberlain is a startling figure, almost obscenely handsome and flaunting it; Finch is a sultry dandy, oh so pouty and a little dark and unsettling; Miles is all eyes, cropped boyish hair, and fabulous unconventional weirdness. At one point she dons blackface and male drag to play Byron's page, and she carries giant feathers to fan him; it is almost too much. It makes one nostalgic not so much for the early 19th century as for the late 1960's. A perfect story to film then, when the oddness and androgeny of Miles' character and the frills and dandy sexiness of the men paralleled so well the new gender types of the late 60's. Quite an experience for a dog day Tuesday afternoon.