Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 07, 2012 at 13:55:20 user PeterC.
In Reply to: S&A 1974 Film - a retrospective view posted by Peter Hyland on May 07, 2012 at 04:56:20:
Kit Seymour (Nancy) whose speech was a little too refined – she announced herself as “Nancy Bleckett”
Listening to radio and newsreel recordings from the time, I think it's easy to forget how 'undemotic' English was then. Men and women; for a well off middle class family that owned a car, 'Bleckett' would be a pretty typical pronunciation. I think that it's rather Sophie Neville who gets it slightly wrong, using too modern an accent.
Remember the phrase; 'an Englishman carries his cast mark in his mouth'. It was very true then. Still rather true even now.
But this is a bit of a quibble. Watham was a very good director and I really enjoyed the film when it first came out.