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Jun. 28th, 2005 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_elyanSpent much of the evening watching the 1971 film of "Under Milk Wood". It's not a particularly successful adaptation, mainly because Under Milk Wood is poosibly the most gloriously vivid piece of writing in the whole of British literature, and putting pictures onto it is a fairly pointless exercise, other than giving Richard Burton the chance to look very moody, and ravish a young lady of dubious morals.
Talking of which, how uncannily prescient of the director to cast Elizabeth Taylor as a whore, one of whose sailor customers is heard to mutter "ruddy good value" as he leaves the love-shack.
The weirdest bit of casting, however, is the sultry Gypsy temptress Mrs Dai Bread Two, who is played by ... Ruth Madoc. Tits out and all...
Gladys Pugh would have had a nasty turn at the very thought...
Talking of which, how uncannily prescient of the director to cast Elizabeth Taylor as a whore, one of whose sailor customers is heard to mutter "ruddy good value" as he leaves the love-shack.
The weirdest bit of casting, however, is the sultry Gypsy temptress Mrs Dai Bread Two, who is played by ... Ruth Madoc. Tits out and all...
Gladys Pugh would have had a nasty turn at the very thought...
