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Lipstick on Your Collar (3 VHS Boxed Set)
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Rating:  - Brilliant
Brilliant is all I have to say about this mini-series. See it if you can!
Rating: - Not Just About Watching Ewan McGregor
"Lipstick on Your Collar" is my favorite video. I not only love it for the acting, the music, and the gut-busting fantasies, but also for it's central motif that most people surprising miss, namely the different worlds that homosexuals and heterosexuals lived in the 1950s. Most, if not all, the senior military officers are gay, and definitely all their junior officers, particaularly Pvt. Mick Hopper (Ewan McGregor) and Pvt. Francis Francis (Giles Thomas) are of the opposite persuasion. Heck, even the opening line is "Bumholes!" On a more subtler level the movie is an inside, albeit indirect, look at the communist spy-ring (Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Company) that infiltrated British Intelligence via Oxford University at that time. This is not my wild imagination at work as Philby is actually mentioned by name (only once) and Dennis Potter himself worked for British Intelligence. Though some reviewers fault Giles Thomas for overacting, I do not. Any English major has a Francis Francis somewhere in his past. Sure, the friend might not be a Pushkin fanatic, but the fellow I knew adored Gerald Manley Hopkins!
Rating:  - well sorted ...nice suits .. good morals
the geezer done good .. Strange I also liked moulin rouge. But I'm not a poof honest! I'm a man betty.
Rating: - English Musical? with american 50's music
This movie is so much fun, The characters are so different, I think its supposed to be a comedy/musical. Ewan is so cute in it, there are some boring dry moments in it but all in all I thought it was good, very clever and did I mention Ewan looked so cute! those smoldering eyes!
Rating: - A delight!
If you are an Ewan McGregor fan, you'll find this video an unexpected delight. Yes, he's very young, and his character isn't nearly developed enough, but his future success in acting is right there for anyone to see--in his bright, wistful eyes, the twist of an Elvis-inspired hip, the twitch of a mischievous smile. When he breaks into song--even though he's lip-snycing--you can't help but be charmed.
The video doesn't quite live up to the promise of its opening episode. The storyline involving the second young male lead is hurt by the actor playing Pvt. Francis Francis, who is so over the top in his words and actions that you actually start to think he deserves to be miserable. Some scenes run a little too long,and the whole thing would probably have worked better if it had been 4 epidsodes instead of 6. But the music is toe-tapping good fun to hear, and you can't help but smile to see grown men, some of them very up in years, singing and dancing around an office in three piece suits. Some of these fellows deserve awards for just being willing to do some of the things they're asked to do.
Definitely worth a look!
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