| | |  | GIFT SETS | Home » » The Pallisers - The Complete Collection | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | The BBC jewel that became a PBS classic! "Wonderfully detailed etchings of manners, fashion and Parliamentary maneuvering" —The New York Times Set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England, The Pallisers is a sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power. Based on Anthony Trollope’s six "political" novels—called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life—and adapted by contemporary British novelist Simon Raven, the series proved powerfully addictive to television audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Starring Emmy®-winner Susan Hampshire as the beautiful and passionate Lady Glencora, whose arranged marriage to rising politician Plantagenet Palliser (Philip Latham) touchingly endures despite being tested by public and private crises. Also starring Derek Jacobi (Cadfael), Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born), Anthony Andrews (Brideshead Revisited), Kate Nichols (Nicholas Nickleby), and Jeremy Irons (Damage). DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE exclusive Susan Hampshire interview, 36-page viewer’s guide, Trollope materials, cast filmographies and Victoriana. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Susan Hampshire, Philip Latham, Barbara Murray, Moray Watson, Donald Pickering | | Format:
| Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 12 | | Studio:
| Acorn Media | | Run Time:
| 1335 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| September 21, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 23 reviews |
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Totally CaptivatedJun 09, 2010
Surprisingly the production of this film exceeded all my expectations since it was taped in the 1970s. The set, art and costume design is so superior that I do not believe even with today's best technology(macs)could enhance this film. As usual the performances of the artists is superb as in all British literary film.
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 Good but with major faultsMar 23, 2010
This is a great series but the liberties that they take with the characters are very irritating and keep me from giving it a 5 star rating.
The first story in the series is Can You Forgive Her? and it is about Alice, not Glencora. Glencora doesn't enter the novel till over 100 pages into it but the video series focuses on Glencora and Plantagenet from the opening.
My second large objection is the preposterous idea that Phineas Finn gets Mary pregnant and is forced to marry her. Trollope is clear that he only kisses her once (behind a door) and Finn finally goes back to her at the end of the second novel, Phineas Finn, because he keeps remembering 'his Mary', and he longs for her and all that she represents.
I do like how odiously Lizzie Eustace is portrayed in the section devoted to the third book. I had to assure my boys that she definitely gets hers in the end!
Great - a must seeFeb 24, 2010
This is a wonderful series that deserves watching again and again. Well written and acted. The costumes are wonderful. It takes you back in time. If you love being in a time and place that doesn't exist anymore, this is the movie for you.The Pallisers - The Complete Collection
masterpiece theater perfectionFeb 08, 2010
It doesn't get better than this. Susan Hampshire shines. All the great British character actors are here. The series has historic interest as it shows the growing love between a headstrong beauty who is forced to marry this quiet, staid man. I like the way that they are able to develop their relationship over such a long time and show how two very different people can grow in their love, respect, and understanding of one another, while giving us lots of period drama, costuming, and interesting historical background of the era.
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Took me a while but I finally loved it!Sep 23, 2009
As w/The Duchess of Duke Street, this series is visually stunning and makes one forget that you're actually viewing a DVD and not there in person. The costumes, furniture and landscape are so spectacular that it made me envious of those born in that time period except for the fact that women had virtually no rights back then.
It did take me until nearly halfway through the series before I began to actually like the story and the characters, though, because the acting is so over the top. Dramatic doesn't even begin to describe it. The lead character, Plantagenet Palliser, or "Planty Pal" as he was sometimes called, as played by Philip Latham was distracting for me at first because, forgive me for this, his voice sounds exactly like the voice of comedian Norm MacDonald! I kept waiting to hear him say "Is my face ever red!" (one of MacDonald's classic lines in his standup) Once I got past that, however, I was able to enjoy his character. Susan Hampshire is another who grew on me. In the beginning, I found her character, Lady Glencora, to be annoying because Hampshire has a habit of always touching her hands to her abdomen; why, I don't know but it, too, was distracting. Finally, when I decided to overlook these things and just get into the story, I found myself totally immersed in it and was sad when the series ended.
The series primarily follows the lives of Plantagenet and Glencora but it is divided into several novels all of which stand on their own and add much to the series as a whole. I'll admit to never having read Trollope until I stumbled upon the Pallisers but now that I've seen this marvelous work, I look forward to reading his novels and to viewing more productions of his work.
Highly recommended!
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