kim wrote:On the PURR website there is a video clip of Linda Thorson in the 1977 movie Valentino. I've never seen the movie and sadly, the DVD is only available through Amazon in the UK. From what little I've been able to find on it, the movie wasn't that great, but in the clip, Linda is using an accent that is almost hilarious. To my ears it sounds like a cross between a Southern belle and a Brooklynite.
If anyone has seen it or intends to get the dvd, let me know what you think of the movie. I don't have a multi-regional player so I'm going to have to wait for it to appear in the US, but I'd like to know what you think of it.
I watched that clip, too. Linda's accent was pretty dodgy. If you poke elsewhere around the site, you'll also find Gareth with an American accent (man, that's weird to listen to), and Joanna playing it French. Why you'd go to the trouble of getting British actors and then nixing their accents is beyond me (although they are good, so I don't blame them on that front).
Ironically, I recently acquired some old fanzines, and they were mentioning that Linda was in
Valentino, so the clip was good timing on that front. Don't despair about not having a region-free player--you might not need one. Most players are exteremely easy to hack. Mine's a fairly old model, and just this past summer I bought the
Life on Mars region 2 DVDs and tested the hack on the player with them. Worked great. All you have to do is find your player's model number and google it with "region-free hack" or some such. Mine consists of pressing two buttons after I put the disc in. Pretty quick and easy (minus the time I spend laughing maniacally and gloating in the general direction of the publishers who use the system to play with the DVD pricing schemes. I'm watching
Randall and Hopkirk anyway! Ha ha!)
Ahem.