When writing, acting, music, and films had something to say and told us a story. I did not really understand the big deal about Barbara Stanwyck when I was 16 as I intensely watched this. 30 something years later, I began watching Turner Classic Movies and I taken the time to enjoy ALL of her films and I was made to appreciate the Thorn Birds even more. I felt for her soul all the way. She was in pain with love and lust and her eyes weren't old, her heart wasn't old, her desires weren't old, it was only her body. If Father Ralph met Stanwyck in her earlier day opposite Henry Fonda, I bet that Father De Brisscart would not have needed to feel pious and wholesome. I love Meg and Father's relationship the most. I had feels just like for much older men into their late 28s when I was 11 and in the 80s, it was a fantasy, but now it is a Scarlet Letter, a stalking and being a prisoner of life. Well executed film for TV and worth having in your permanent film collection. Also, I got the DVS version, but this does not matter, the seller was excellent and they did not disappoint, not a one, and also, the package was sealed in clear wrapping to show the care they took to sell this. Another awesome story from the 80s.....The book and the mini series will always be the best and not that new junk that they have the nerve to remake. Who ever remakes this should have "old Hollywood" return and break their knee caps and watch a LOT of excellent films so that they will learn how to cast, budget, use a camera, spend the money, and much more, It would be the best knee cap breaking these young Gen Y film makers can hope for. I really do mean break every bone in a dirt-bag's knee cap. No Joke. A great film or excellent performances would be left alone to enjoy and to savour. NO one should remake what has already been done. Gen Y...WHY? Watch this mini-series, it is better than a theatrical release and well worth keeping, I 'll never forget this from my HS teenage years. I loved those two together when Sidney Penny grows up and becomes Rachel Ward..now THAT is excellent casting. 80s women were real and beautiful, talented, not snotty and not blonde, dead goodness too many blondes, too loud and dress terrible for professionalism. Give us back the men who look like real men and women who inspired other women for being the strong silent type. Thank you Colleen MC Collough. You captured telling a story with Australian History, took our minds to a place we have never been before and created work for hundreds of perfectly, gorgeous talents people who did not need to be a ho or shout or to be on You Tube for attention. This was the real thing. Thank you. Buy it as the novel AND the film. either way, no waste of time shall you ever consider this art in motion to be. Long Live Rachel Wood and Richard Chamberlain in the film version and how Colleen pictured them exactly as they came to life on screen.
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