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    Revolution (1985)

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    The story of the American Revolution against the British crown in 1776 was the subject of this 125-minute, $50 million epic that very few people wanted to watch.

    Director Hugh Hudson placed his two central characters, Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) – the (supposedly) Scottish trapper – and Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski) – the young firebrand who abandons a comfortable home to join the rebels – against a constant background of collective action.

    Hudson forever loses his principals in the noisy swirl of street protests, field hospitals, society parties and battle scenes.

    There seem to be no more than ten shots in the whole film that contain less than three people, and the nearest thing to an intimate scene – an encounter between Tom and Daisy, three years into the war – has background action so busy it must consciously be intended to rob them of their privacy.

    The result, sadly, is less a revolutionary fresco than a film that looks as though it has been shot by a second unit director: a series of big, big scenes, meticulously planned, fluently filmed, but lacking in focus – awe-inspiring but also somewhat numbing.

    Tom Dobb
    Al Pacino
    Sergeant Major Peasy
    Donald Sutherland
    Daisy McConnahay
    Nastassja Kinski
    Mrs McCannahay
    Joan Plowright
    Mr McCannahay
    Dave King
    Sergeant Jones
    Steven Berkoff
    Corty
    John Wells
    Liberty woman
    Annie Lennox
    Ned Dobb
    Dexter Fletcher
    Young Ned
    Sid Owen
    Lord Hampton
    Richard O’Brien
    Lord Darling
    Paul Brooke
    Merle
    Eric Milota
    Betsy
    Felicity Dean
    Amy
    Jo Anna Lee
    Cuffy
    Cheryl Miller
    Israel Davis
    Harry Ditson
    Bella Davis
    Rebecca Calder
    Abby
    Theresa Boden
    Ben
    Cameron Johann
    Ahab
    Danny Potts
    Sergeant Marley
    William Marlowe
    Captain Lacy
    Stefan Gryff
    General Washington
    Frank Windsor
    Tonti
    Skeeter Vaughan
    Honehwah
    Larry Sellers
    Ongwata
    Graham Greene
    Sergeant Malin
    John Patrick
    Doctor Sloan
    Malcolm Terris
    Clowski
    Steve Kligerman
    Bill
    Adrian Rawlins
    Captain Cray
    Manning Redwood
    Carrie
    Kate Hardie
    Roger Otis
    Richard Hicks
    Marcel
    Tristram Jellinek
    Pierre
    Lex van Delden

    Director
    Hugh Hudson

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