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United Kingdom released, PAL-Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black and White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: An extraordinarily racy movie for its time, The Wicked Lady was and still is as notable for its acres of heaving bosom as for its radical challenge to female stereotypes. This bodice-ripper about a bored aristocratic woman who turns highwayman just for kicks became a huge box-office success in post-war Britain, but Margaret Lockwoods eloquent bust proved a bit too expressive for Hollywood, so the film was expensively reshot for a sanitised US release. (From 1945 right up to Janet Jackson at the 2004 Superbowl, American audiences apparently have an enduring problem with those prominent parts of the female anatomy).This is the definitive Gainsborough picture, a period romp crammed with cads, in which the camera gazes lasciviously down (its all shot from a male eyelevel) at the low-cut ladies dresses. But this time the female anti-heroine gives as good as she gets… and then some. Lockwoods Lady Barbara Skelton is quite gleefully amoral–more so even than Thackerays arch-manipulator Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair–failing even to pay lip service to the moral standards of the 1940s, let alone those of the 17th century. It is she who wears the trousers (quite literally, in her highwayman guise) while the weak-chinned and weak-willed men around her crumble under the weight of their conventionality. Only James Masons handsome dandy highwayman can keep up with her, but even he has to draw the line somewhere. Ultimately, social mores reassert their grip and Lady Barbara gets her comeuppance, but not before shes overturned every contemporary movie convention about femininity. She was the wickedest woman ever seen on the screen, trumpets the original theatrical trailer on this otherwise bare-…
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