- Actors: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
- Directors: Leslie Arliss
- Format: PAL, Black & White
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Carlton
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000KA2R4M
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 19,906 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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HISTORICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY
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Aptly titled 'The Wicked Lady' - Margaret Lockwood is positively ruthless in this - probably her greatest and best-remembered movie from the 40s where she plays a discontented wealthy young woman with too much time on her hands. She's bored with her monotonous life - not being satisfied at ruining her best friend's up-coming marriage, she sets out to get what she wants and to destroy anything that gets in her way! When natural happiness finally does show its face, it's a little too late...
Margaret Lockwood stars alongside James Mason in this Gainsborough classic, but gets top billing! Patricia Roc gives her a good run for her money though!
I think this was the very first Margaret Lockwood film I ever saw with my mother when I was very young. She went on to tell me afterwards how she used to go to see all Lockwood's movies at the time - and I can see why!
Also features a rare and delightful role for Amy Dalby (best remembered as 'old Miss Abigail' in the original version of 'The Haunting' 1963) as an amusing 'dotty' Aunt Doll - as one half of a set of spinster twins alongside Beatrice Varley.
Great classic movie!
Margaret Lockwood stars alongside James Mason in this Gainsborough classic, but gets top billing! Patricia Roc gives her a good run for her money though!
I think this was the very first Margaret Lockwood film I ever saw with my mother when I was very young. She went on to tell me afterwards how she used to go to see all Lockwood's movies at the time - and I can see why!
Also features a rare and delightful role for Amy Dalby (best remembered as 'old Miss Abigail' in the original version of 'The Haunting' 1963) as an amusing 'dotty' Aunt Doll - as one half of a set of spinster twins alongside Beatrice Varley.
Great classic movie!
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"I never could resist anything that belonged to somebody else."
16 April 2011
1945's THE WICKED LADY was just the right tonic for war-weary England. The film tells the lusty story of a bored 17th-century noblewoman, who secretly thrills to nightly trysts with a notorious highwayman.
Raven-haired British bad girl Margaret Lockwood is Barbara Worth, a wily temptress who steals away her cousin's fiancé, but cannot settle in her new life as the lady of the manor. Relief comes in the form of a new "hobby" - each night Barbara donnes a man's disguise and roams the countryside as a highwayman. Uniting with notorious criminal "Captain" Jerry Jackson (James Mason), Barbara's insatiable appetite for men - and crime - cannot be crushed. Revenge, murder, thievery, blackmail...it's all in a night's work for Lady Barbara Skelton...the "Wicked Lady"...
Co-starring with Patricia Roc, Michael Rennie and Griffith Jones, THE WICKED LADY is Margaret Lockwood's showcase, displaying her ample talents (and her ample bosom in some cleavage-plunging costumes - this film really puts the bodice in bodice-ripper). THE WICKED LADY was based on the novel by Magdalen King-Hall, a kind of a forerunner to Barbara Cartland, and the story rivals anything that Cartland ever devised in her myriad period romps. Writer-director Leslie Arliss had previously worked with Lockwood and James Mason in a similarly-themed period adventure, 1943's "The Man in Grey".
Miraculously, though filmed at the tail-end of WW2, the design of the film is sumptuous and producers spared no expense (despite the shortages that were severely affecting British film production and export during this time). Audiences thrilled to THE WICKED LADY, ensuring it as one of the biggest box-office attractions of 1945; and though Margaret Lockwood was hardly a newcomer, it's the movie that cemented her fame, and for which she is still best-remembered.
Raven-haired British bad girl Margaret Lockwood is Barbara Worth, a wily temptress who steals away her cousin's fiancé, but cannot settle in her new life as the lady of the manor. Relief comes in the form of a new "hobby" - each night Barbara donnes a man's disguise and roams the countryside as a highwayman. Uniting with notorious criminal "Captain" Jerry Jackson (James Mason), Barbara's insatiable appetite for men - and crime - cannot be crushed. Revenge, murder, thievery, blackmail...it's all in a night's work for Lady Barbara Skelton...the "Wicked Lady"...
Co-starring with Patricia Roc, Michael Rennie and Griffith Jones, THE WICKED LADY is Margaret Lockwood's showcase, displaying her ample talents (and her ample bosom in some cleavage-plunging costumes - this film really puts the bodice in bodice-ripper). THE WICKED LADY was based on the novel by Magdalen King-Hall, a kind of a forerunner to Barbara Cartland, and the story rivals anything that Cartland ever devised in her myriad period romps. Writer-director Leslie Arliss had previously worked with Lockwood and James Mason in a similarly-themed period adventure, 1943's "The Man in Grey".
Miraculously, though filmed at the tail-end of WW2, the design of the film is sumptuous and producers spared no expense (despite the shortages that were severely affecting British film production and export during this time). Audiences thrilled to THE WICKED LADY, ensuring it as one of the biggest box-office attractions of 1945; and though Margaret Lockwood was hardly a newcomer, it's the movie that cemented her fame, and for which she is still best-remembered.
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