La vie tumultueuse de Lady Caroline Lamb

Original title: Lady Caroline Lamb

1972
PG
2h 3m

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La vie tumultueuse de Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.

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5.4/10

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Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
In reality, Lady Caroline Lamb was addicted to laudanum, which is generally thought to be one of the contributing factors to her premature death. There is no reference to this specific addiction in the movie, although in the first scene Lady Bessborough offers Caroline a tincture of some sort for her nervousness, that tincture which most-likely is laudanum.

Goofs
Members of Parliament do not applaud speeches.

Quotes
ADC to Wellington: [Caroline has just slashed her wrists] Good God, your Grace! She just tried to kill herself!
Duke of Wellington: Nonsense, me boy. No difficulty about killing yourself, if you really mean to.

Connections
Referenced in The Films of Robert Bolt (1972)

Soundtracks
Lancers
(uncredited)
Music by Lacout
Arranged by Lawrence Ashmore

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One of the best curtain lines ever!

After enduring Robert Bolt's rather turgid retelling of Lady Caroline Lamb's ill-fated love and finding myself, once again, unable to warm to his real-life wife (at the time), the rather tiresome Sarah Miles, the whole enterprise was redeemed by that fabulously funny curtain line. When told that Lady Caroline has died of a broken heart, one of her chief female detractors faces the camera (through the lace curtains of a window, I seem to recall) and hisses, (Alas! I'm not quoting verbatim, since I haven't seen this since its theatrical release, but here goes...) "She would!, wouldn't she?!?" I laughed all the way out to the parking lot. Not available on video, apparently, and if they do unearth this bit of cinematic costume jewellry (not really a precious gem, mind you), let us hope that it will be on DVD where the Panavision/widescreen ratio will be preserved.