| White Mischief [1987] [Import] |  | Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Sarah Miles, Greta Scacchi
Category: DVD
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
ASIN: B000YB5NOS
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Product Description
In the years between the first and second world wars, the more affluent British settlers in Kenya developed a lifestyle that became famous for its luxury and scandalous for its decadence. In their so-called Happy Valley, on the slopes of the Aberdare mountains where the climate was close to home, they built their ranches and villages, made a lot of money and tried to ignore the war clouds gathering over Europe. Some of them worked hard and most of them partied hard, and as war grew closer their detachment seemed more and more of a scandal. Then, on the eve of war, the settlement was rocked by a murder that is still one of the most famous crimes of the British Empire. An older rancher, Sir Henry "Jock" Broughton (Joss Ackland), had returned from a trip to England with a wild young bride named Diana (Greta Scacchi). She had married for money, a fact Sir Henry had few illusions about, but what he did not expect was that she would so quickly flaunt her cynicism in the colony. She fell under the power of the handsome young earl of Erroll (Charles Dance), a shameless womanizer, and their affair scandalized the colony until the day of Jan. 24, 1941, when the earl was found shot dead in his car, not far from an exclusive club where he had last been seen with Diana. Broughton was charged with the murder, but eventually acquitted, and the case remains officially unsolved to this day. The one survivor who might have been sure about the identity of the killer, Diana Broughton, died a few years ago. "White Mischief" is an elegant, almost luxurious retelling of the story of Jock, Diana and the earl, filmed on location in Kenya at great expense and forming a sort of companion piece to "Out of Africa," which takes place in East Africa at the beginning of the same era but among much different sorts of people. Diana is carefree as the wind and hardly even wants to hurt Jock's feelings. She is simply too selfish to think much about them.
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