Salome's Last Dance
1988
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The movie takes place in rural England around the time of the World War I, and centers on the story of Ursula Brangwen (Sammi Davis), daughter of an old, established and respectable farming family, who has no desire to march in step with the requirements of her family tradition.
- Lair Of The White Worm
Let this much be said for Ken Russell’s “The Lair of the...
- Tommy
The movie's purpose and achievement would be hard to figure...
- Lair Of The White Worm
May 26, 1989 · The Rainbow: Directed by Ken Russell. With Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable. A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- Ken Russell
- 1989-05-26
The Rainbow is a 1989 British drama film co-written and directed by Ken Russell and adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novel The Rainbow (1915). Sammi Davis stars as Ursula, a sheltered young pupil, then schoolteacher, who is taken under the wing (sexually and otherwise) by the more sophisticated Winifred ( Amanda Donohoe ).
63% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 57% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen (Sammi Davis) grows into a beautiful young woman...
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- Ken Russell
- R
- Sammi Davis
The Rainbow (1989) was a film Ken Russell made based upon the writings of the legendary Victorian era author D.H. Lawrence, but with a Ken Russell twist. The story is a bout a young woman (Sammi Davis) who wants to live her life but she has to do it during the repressive Victorian age of England.
The film reeks of mediocrity, floundering in banal imagery (kisses against boughs, rushing waterfalls, etc). Many essentials in what is a masterful three-generation novel have been jettisoned,...
All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Pauline Kael New Yorker. TOP CRITIC. Russell, notorious for overheating most of his pictures, has left the heat out of this one. He seems...
