Found this rare (!) Masterpiece Theatre poster (a magazine page ad) for Sons & Lovers the other day; the BBC adaption of D.H. Lawrence’s novel that Tom starred in together with Eileen Atkins in 1981.
I can definately see Eileen Atkins in the lady here, but I must say found it harder to see a resemblance of Tom in the drawing of the man, but… ;) Great drawing and poster anyway! Would love to see this of course.. But it’s a fat chance, since 1). It’s got only 12 votes (as of now) on its IMDb page, which says A LOT about how hard-to-get this production is 2). I have found no VHS or DVD release of it (if there ever was one) that’s still available somewhere and 3). I live in Sweden, and a screening of such an old BBC mini-series is probably ruled out over here… :-/
Ah, well… I’ll just have to read the novel and picture Tom as Walter Morel! :-) <— the budget way! ;-) So far I’ve only read Lady Chatterley’s Lover of Lawrence, and I wasn’t too impressed of that one.. (I actually thought it was kind of bad written… I wasn’t really impressed by his style of writing; I kind of felt his characters were a bit carbon-figure-like and that he always repeated himself in his description of the sex/love scenes, using the same words and phrases, sort of…). But perhaps Lawrence can win me back with this one..! =)
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