Kitty

Hi aab874,

Late answering you, but I actually have the novel somewhere but have never read it. From the size it's really a novella and I hope to read it some day. By the way, I write YA.

I don't know how anyone can bear the sound of people of the lower classes screeching throughout the movie! Ever time I dare to unmute it, my head cringes! Was the director and perhaps whoever did the sound deaf? The actors all were trying to out-screech each other. Normally, I adore Ray Milland, but to hear the screeching just to see him playing a creepy character pretending to find faults in his suit so he could refuse to pay what he owed for it? 42 minutes in I just tested it again, and Kitty is still screeching away (not to mention honky tonk piano for the music of the day?). If men then were attracted to the "charms" of a woman who was beneath his level socially, he need not put up with the irritant any longer than it took him to do the deed. That was the way of the world then, for the most part....

Quietest scene was the newborn baby--IT had the sense not to overplay the role! But then the bagpipes and *mute*. Predictable? 😫

The date mentioned for the movie was 1783--the year America won the war for independence. Since I had to mute it, I have no idea if this played any role in the movie. Was it mentioned? Would we have an annoying surprise awaiting us if we could hear our founding fathers' speak and they squawked and screeched out their words? I don't see Ben Franklin using any trick he can come up with to stay in Britain if people screeched like that in London. After all, he stayed in London at a boarding house, mixing with the classes people....

I now give up on this mess, as the female dancer (sort of gypsy but very white) leaps around the candle showing her wares up to her waist? I doubt that was the fad in 1783-4.