Captains and the Kings
- TV Mini Series
- 19761976
- 9h
Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.
- Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 4 wins & 8 nominations total
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- TriviaProducer Jo Swerling Jr. remembers "We had a lovely young actress named Beverly D'Angelo doing a love scene with Harvey Jason. It was your typical TV shot across her back to Harvey as she lets the negligee drop to the ground, and she's standing there naked. Then we did closeups of Harvey, and then of Beverly. And in Beverly's closeup we put a TV matte on the lens so that our matted field of vision would cut just at the nipple line; that was it was obvious that she was nude, but you didn't see any nipple. However, when the show was telecast, there were in the new TV sets variances in the field of vision, and half the sets in the country saw more of Beverly than the other half. The following morning, we got a panic call from Broadcast Standards that we had violated the nudity ban and that more people saw Beverly's nipples than didn't. But nobody complained. Nobody but the censors. The upshot was that we were told not to cut it that close in the future."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977)
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Stands the test of time!!
Captains and the Kings is such a rich mini-series. From the first episode to the last you can't help being drawn to the characters. I just got the VHS set and I can tell you that the story holds up as well now as it did in 1976. If you get the chance to see Captains and the Kings, don't pass it up. I guarantee it: you'll be hooked!!
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- tbob02
- Sep 22, 2001
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- Der Preis der Macht
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- Runtime9 hours
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Captains and the Kings (1976) officially released in Canada in English?
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