Jo Harvey Allen


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Room With A View, A (1986) -- (Movie Clip) You'd Have To Fly Over The Wall Touring Florence, at the Piazza della Signoria, producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory working from the E.M. Forster novel, as Lucy (Helena Bonham Carter) observes Italian street action, and is rescued by rogue-ish George (Julian Sands), in A Room With A View 1986.
Room With A View, A (1986) -- (Movie Clip) I Promessi Sposi Following her eventful trip to Florence, we meet the brother and mother (Rupert Graves, Rosemary Leach) of Lucy (Helena Bonham-Carter) and Daniel Day-Lewis, who’s become her fiancè, which doesn’t please the vicar Beebe (Simon Callow), in the Merchant-Ivory breakthrough feature A Room With A View 1986.
Room With A View, A (1986) -- (Movie Clip) We Have No View Straight to the topic, we meet Lucy (Helena Bonham Carter), her chaperone (Maggie Smith) and their less polite but equally English fellows (Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands as the Emersons), ca. 1908, at a Florentine pensione, Judi Dench also dining, opening the Merchant-Ivory hit from the E.M. Forster novel, A Room With A View 1986.
King's Speech, The (2010) -- (Movie Clip) Steady Red Means You're Live In director Tom Hooper’s opening, Albert, Duke of York (Colin Firth), with the duchess (Helena Bonham Carter), cued by a BBC announcer (Adrian Scarborough), having a bad time addressing the closing of the Empire Exhibition, 1925, in the Best Picture Academy Award-winning The King’s Speech, 2010.
King's Speech, The (2010) -- (Movie Clip) What If My Husband Were The Duke Of York? Elizabeth, Duchess of York (Helena Bonham Carter), assuming the name "Mrs. Johnson," ventures into foggy Westminster, London, to consult Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush, his first scene), seeking help for her husband, in director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, 2010.
Fall Of The House Of Usher, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Would Have Turned Back Continuing the opening narration directly from Edgar Allan Poe's story, visitor Jonathan (Irving Steen) arrives at the house and meets his stricken friend Lord Roderick (Kay Tendeter), in the Anglicized 1949 version of The Fall Of The House Of Usher, directed by Ivan Barnett.
Cold Sassy Tree (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Grandpa Was A Buster Young Neil Patrick Harris narrates, Joan Tewkesbury directing the script she adapted from the Olive Ann Burns novel, introducing Richard Widmark, Faye Dunaway, Frances Fisher and others, in the well-received TV movie Cold Sassy Tree, 1989.
Cold Sassy Tree (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Hers Was A Different Tune From the Olive Ann Burns novel, in 1906 middle Georgia, young Will (Neil Patrick Harris) doesn't quite grasp the arrangement between Love Simpson (Faye Dunaway), and his recently-widowed local merchant grandfather, her employer and now husband, in the TV movie Cold Sassy Tree, 1989.
Howards End -- (Movie Clip) There Wasn't Any Moon Rapid events as we meet Margaret (Emma Thompson) reading a letter from sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) to Aunt Juley (Prunella Scales) then return to the titular house where Paul (Joseph Bennett) revokes his promise, in Howards End, 1992, from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.
Howards End -- (Movie Clip) You Took My Umbrella Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) has just returned home from a lecture to sister Margaret (Emma Thompson) and brother Tibby (Adrian Ross-Magenty) when Leonard (Samuel West) arrives seeking his umbrella, in the Merchant-Ivory production of Howards End, 1992.

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