I’ve just seen The Scarlet Pimpernel, the 1982 version with Anthony Edwards. It’s not terribly good, despite having Ian Mckellen as Chauvelin (and Anthony Edwards, of course). It’s not bad, it’s just not as good as it ought to be. It sent me in search of the BBC version with Richard E. Grant, which is better, on DVD. It’s available (well, the first series is), but it’s expensive enough to mean I’d have to pay tax on it, so I think I’ll wait. It’d almost be cheaper to buy a video player, and if I did I could watch the tapes I have from when it was aired in Britain.
Or I could watch the 1934 version with Leslie Howard, which I do have on DVD, instead. And that is excellent. In fact it’s so excellent it’s one of my favourite films ever.
But not tonight. I’m sleepy. I want to go to bed. So why am I still sitting here?
Voice on the stereo: Bruce Willis – Under the Boardwalk