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England, My England (1995)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (79 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Tony Palmer
Writers:
John Osborne (writer)
Charles Wood (writer)
Genre:
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A Film Within A Play Within a Film more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Simon Callow ... Charles II
Michael Ball ... Henry (Harry) Purcell
Rebecca Front ... Mary II
Lucy Speed ... Nell Gwyn
Letitia Dean ... Barbara Palmer (Lady Castlemaine)

Nina Young ... Frances Purcell
John Shrapnel ... Samuel Pepys
Robert Stephens ... John Dryden
Terence Rigby ... Captain Henry Cooke
Bill Kenwright ... Bill
Murray Melvin ... Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
Corin Redgrave ... William of Orange
John Fortune ... Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Guy Henry ... James II
Peter Woodthorpe ... Kiffen
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Additional Details

Runtime:
153 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Pepys, the Purcells, and Pelham are climbing the stairs to view the fire, Pepys is speaking lines from his diary entry of 2 September 1666. more
Goofs:
Continuity: One shot shows a stagehand turning a winch to lift Mary Tudor when she's playing Cupid. When she's being lowered, a shot shows the stagehand turning the winch in the same direction as previously. more
Quotes:
Tony Palmer: You know what this country has become? Once we had a church built upon a rock. Now the rock has been bulldozed and with it our fame. What we're left with is a crawling underside of expediency and dishonour beholden to Brussels wherein the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain. England, my England, is shuffling about like an old tramp begging for a pair of boots at the tradesmen's entrances of Europe more
Movie Connections:
References Amadeus (1984) more
Soundtrack:
Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1654: Come ye sons of art (No. 2) more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
A Film Within A Play Within a Film, 14 February 2002
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Author: Philip Jelley from London, England

The life of the musician & court composer Henry Purcell is used to present a tongue in cheek examination of the Restoration & the Glorious Revolution. The actors in the film, led by Simon Callow as Charles II, discuss the play between scenes, but the parts they play on stage are also those that they play in the film. Very cleverly done too.

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