. . . muttered the ogre

Technicolor is always fun, and Scaramouche (1952) is a splendid example. Does digital image processing software (such as Photoshop) have filters that try to match the flavor of Technicolor?

Later: Technicolor could not save The Crimson Pirate (also 1952). I abandoned it after about half an hour and two Disneyesque confrontations in which bumbling soldiers are defeated by clowning pirates (led by Burt Lancaster, whose lack of charisma never struck me so strongly before). It didn’t even look like Technicolor; perhaps the DVD transfer sucked the life out.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, is Algernon Moncrief meant to resemble Oscar Wilde? In the film of 1952 he does.

I watched half of Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) and found none of the characters at all interesting.

My housemate and I both enjoyed Outside Edge (1994), a series about two contrasting couples (Brenda Blethyn and Robert Daws; Josie Lawrence and Timothy Spall) brought together by cricket.

In High Noon (1952) Grace Kelly often sounds as if English is not her first language. — Did gummed envelopes exist in 1876? (The date is limited by a flag of 37 stars.)