I can overhear in the bedroom . . .

[pegkerr]

Fiona and Rob reciting together:

We seek him here
We seek him there
The Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven?
Is he in hell?
That demmed illusive Pimpernel."

I love passing on things like that . . .

We watched the movie tonight (Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon). I've handed Fiona the book to read, and I have no doubt she will finish it soon.

It is one of the movies we got with our family Christmas present to ourselves: Family Classics Fifty Movie Pack and HIstoric Classics Fifty Movie Pack. We are going to have a lot of fun with these. The other one we watched tonight was Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in a 1926 silent film, "The Black Pirate."

I am thrilled to see that Jose Ferrar's "Cyrano de Bergerac" is also in this collection. That is one of my very favorites, and I am delighted to have a copy so I can introduce it to the girls.

It was a great deal, $30, for the two packs, a hundred movies in all. A great gift for your family.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Glad to see I'm not the only kid who fell for the Scarlet Pimpernel (book and movies!) at a young age. *G*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My father does a crazy good Pimpernel laugh.

[aome.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie, but I adore the Scarlet Pimpernel in book form. It's one of the classics I chose to read for myself, not for any English lit class, and I'm so glad I did.

And - wow, that is a fabulous movie deal!

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I always wonder about the quality of these big packs of movies. Do they look and sound good? (I don't demand a lot--our TVs aren't that good!)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

They're not great. But I'm not particularly a snob about that sort of thing and I happen to like old movies in general. And they include some movies that are extremely interesting for historical interest. I mean, when on earth are you going to see a copy of the 1926 silent The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. at your local Blockbuster? Never, that's when. About a third of the Family Pack are silent movies, including Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Those are always worthwhile. About 1/4 of the Historical are 1950s biblical epics. I can imagine that some of them are real stinkos, but on the basis of this very limited sample, I've been perfectly pleased with our purchase.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

I ADORE the Scarlet Pimpernel!! I'm glad the girls enjoyed it.

And that's an AWESOME deal! Where did you find it? Jim and I were just discussing the other day that we needed to get some classics for our DVD collection.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I don't remember specifically the deal I used; once I had decided I wanted to get these two 50 packs, I just did a search on both Froogle and Price Grabber, found the cheapest deal, and bought them.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

30 cents a movie?! Wow, that is a great deal. Thanks!

[lydy.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the movie. I adored the book as a kid. I read it recently, and it was the most ghastly read I'd had in a long time. It was wretchedly written, it had an unbelievably bad skill at suspending disbelief, and it is so offensively classist that it very nearly turned me into a Marxist. The only good thing about it was that lovely rhyme. Fortunately, your kids are just the right age, and they'll have grand fun. I wish I hadn't re-read it, or that I could have somehow re-read it uncritically. The Rocketship Galileo problem, alas.

[shakespearechic.livejournal.com]

You MUST see the 1982 BBC version of The Scarlet Pimpernel (see icon). My friend and I tried to watch the Leslie Howard version when we were in high school but... it we had already fallen in love iwth 192 one and it just didn't make the cut. :-P I love those books though! Somewhere my mom found all the other ones (besides simply the first one) - not for cheap - and I read them all.