Date: 7 Feb 2025 09:47 am (UTC)
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It would not have occurred to me to bundle those three films together, but I'm glad they found you! Is it the 1947 An Ideal Husband or the Jeremy Northam?

These 3-in-1 bundles are always collections of 3 films that are technically the same genre BUT. Also usually they are not things anyone has ever heard of, or at least 2 of them aren't, so I was taken aback by this set. And, yes it was the Jeremy Northam one! (I was going to say the 1999, but then I remembered that there is another, different 1999 An Ideal Husband, which I also found in a charity shop one time.) I did actually own that already, so I now have to decide what to do with both copies.

I have never seen Tom Jones and don't think I knew Julian Glover was in it!

He is the soldier Tom has a fight with, because Julian Glover is so rarely good!

Congratulations! (Does the cesspool make an appearance?)

It was 1963! The cesspool was long gone! But the Mary Stanley can be seen, which is where I, my three sisters and my mum were all born.

Castle Street is very random - it and its parallel (but not quite as good or as finished) street, Chandos Street, are perfect surviving 1720s architecture, which was v handy for Tom Jones, filming in the West Country in the 60s. The Duke of Chandos took it into his head to buy some land in Bridgwater at that date and, with grand plans of making it fashionable, built two streets and a glass kiln. Bridgwater did not become fashionable, the glass-making did not take off, and he shrugged, sold up, and went off, leaving two unusually nice streets for the lawyers of Bridgwater to occupy - and require people to clean out their cesspits every so often, of course.

(I looked and I see I found the sewer story in 2017.)

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