I think "Road" got its rating due to such things as a brief flash of full frontal male nudity and a graphic abortion sequence.  The "adult themes" of Jack's casual sexual encounter ("veddy Noel Coward") with Grayson's character may have been part of the motivation as well.

Frankly, the movie is a mess, but might be one of those reclaimed by fans of mid-century offbeat explorations as a curio for deeper regard.

G.

MB, you really know how to crack me up.  that's the kind of dry New England wit that made this country great!

I gather there were tech difficulties with this evening's hoDS snapshot?  I have an empty box with a question mark in the middle and Flora's quote from 1841.  I use Safari at home now so I know it isn't an IE glitch (yes dears... I use Safari on my NEW MacBook Pro... with Snow Leopard OS X!  yee haw!).

not such a fuddy old duddy,

G.

True, MB, but from this snap I actually can see (which I never was able to before over many viewings of this movie--I guess I just never thought to hit the pause button at this point) that they made a rather crude attempt to paint Joan's face on that portrait.  So, presumably, there were instructions given to the set people that the portrait was supposed to resemble Joan Bennett.

G.

I happened to re-watch the episode from which today's snapshot was taken a few weeks ago and I have to say this scene was a hoot!  Mags is more interested in getting her hair right than anything else and poor Mrs J is having a total meltdown.  There's such a surreal energy to this scene.  and it is brilliantly captured here!  Thanks, MB.

G.

Hey Taeylor, you really need to see the version of Rebecca in which Diana Rigg played Mrs. Danvers.  They really played up the lesbian subtext for dear old "Danny" in that one.  Rigg's performance dominated the entire film.  Hopefully it is on Netflix.  The old film, with Judith Anderson in the role, is very good as well, of course.

hugs, G.

what I always find hysterical about this is they seem to have had Clarice ship the same wig she wore out to Lyndhurst so Barbara could wear it.  and it REALLY looks like a turban on Barbara.

Barbara, of course, was Mrs Dennis Patrick.  Some day, I'd like to see her in another role.  I have read she was a very distinguished actress.

G.

Well, they  had established in the latter part of Quentin's storyline in 1969 that all the photographs of him had been removed from the family album.  With what was revealed in 1897, I could imagine Edward angrily destroying every photograph of his wastrel brother he could lay hands upon.  However, in one memorable instance in 1969, Quentin's ghost snatched away a photograph of Beth moments after Julia managed to find it.

Given that they strangely treated Quentin's haunting as if it had still happened even though they had changed history in 1897 so that Quentin never died and no ghost was around to haunt in the revised continuity of 1968-69, one presumes that they also treated it as given that photos of the deliciously swaggering Young Mr. Collins were as scarce as hen's teeth...

G.