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Freeman is forced into action when a riot occurs. He has a teen-age boy arrested. Then, Freeman is kidnapped by guerrillas, one of whom is the sister of the jailed youth.
Freeman's captors humiliate him, calling him "Freemiss" and using him as a beast of burden. Slowly but surely, the woman guerrilla begins to feel sorry for Freeman. Inevitably, they fall in love.
But, the couple comes from opposing worlds, and their love can't save them from the hatred of others. 

Jeremy Brett gives a fine performance, skillfully tracing the development of the passive, shallow Freeman into a courageous, caring human being.
Although An Act of Reprisal seems to have vanished from today's airwaves, it was a fixture on local television during the 1970's. A perusal of vintage TV schedules from various US cities reveals such capsule plot descriptions as "A Greek Cypriot falls in love with a British officer in this variation on Romeo And Juliet" and "Personal lives are torn apart by ethnic hates during The Greek-Cypriot Civil War."
And, it was screened by the AFI/USA Independent Showcase in Los Angeles in 1991.


Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill - 1974 (Miniseries)
  
"Jennie" (played by Lee Remick) is Jennie Jerome, the American socialite who married British statesman Randolph Churchill and became the mother of future prime minister Winston Churchill.


As Randolph Churchill grew increasingly ill with syphilis, Jennie turned to Count Karel (Charles) Kinsky (JB), a dashing Austrian nobleman and diplomat.

Kinsky waited in vain for Jennie's hand, and reluctantly married an Austrian countess two weeks before Randolph Churchill died. Count Kinsky himself died in 1919, shell-shocked and broken after fighting on the Russian front during World War I.  
Jeremy Brett, excellent as always as the Count, appears in the early episodes of this British miniseries.
Lee Remick's bravura portrayal of Jennie earned her a BAFTA in 1975 for "Best TV Actress in a Drama." And, only weeks before her untimely death from cancer in 1991, she received the Blenheim Award from the International Churchill Societies.
TRIVIA: JB isn't the only future sleuth in Jennie. Warren Clarke (Winston Churchill) went on to co-star in Dalziel and Pascoe.


Madame X - 1981 (Film)
I finally got to see this film. I was expecting a slick soap opera a la Deceptions (see below), with Jeremy Brett portraying a charming villain.
Surprise! This version of Madame X is tastefully done and features a moving performance by Tuesday Weld in the title role. And Jeremy plays a good guy!


Ms. Weld's character, Holly Richardson, starts out as the luminous young wife of a rising politician. Unfortunately, she gets entangled in a compromising situation that leads to the accidental death of a man with whom she had a brief fling. Her haughty mother-in-law (who has never liked her) fears a scandal will jeopardize her son's political career and arranges for the distraught Holly to vanish, so the sordid incident won't become public and bring ruin to her, her husband and their young daughter.


Holly knows her mother-in-law means business, and she reluctantly agrees to be exiled under an assumed name in Europe for the rest of her life, permanently separated from her husband and child (who know nothing of the incident and think she perished in a sailing mishap).


The young woman sadly wanders the globe, ending up in Dublin, Ireland, where she attempts 自杀. Her life is saved by Terrence Keith (JB) a kindly, widowed cardiologist--who cooks! Dr. Keith ends up falling in love with his mysterious patient, whom he knows as Barbara. He senses she has a tragic past, but he doesn't care, and begs her to marry him. The good doctor is baffled and saddened when she refuses his proposal.
Holly then moves on, drifting from country to country and from lover to lover, all the while sinking deeper and deeper into alcoholism.
Finally, another scandalous event unexpectedly reunites Holly with her family.
But, she refuses to divulge her true identity to them, since her husband is now a presidential candidate and her daughter a promising lawyer. They know her only as: "Madame X".
Yes, Madame X is a tearjerker, but it's well-acted and worth watching. Although Jeremy appears only briefly, he graces his few scenes with tenderness and humor.
He has a mustache, which makes him look like sort of a cheerier version of "Max DeWinter" from Rebecca.
Dr. Keith also diagnoses Holly/Barbara with a damaged mitral valve and explains to her how the valve works. Jeremy's own heart valves were damaged by rheumatic fever, which makes this scene extra poignant.  
And, for those who think Jeremy "couldn't" sing--well, just wait until you hear him croon his special version of   "Molly Malone". :-> 

Number 10 - "Bloodline" (video title: The Secret Lives of the Prime Ministers - "Pitt: The Younger Girl Scandal") - Limited Series Episode - 1983
Florence Nightingale - 4/7/85 (Film)
Deceptions - 5/27 -5/28/1985 (4-Hour Miniseries)
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                         JBTV - Part II
Lest we view Jeremy Brett's pre-Sherlock Holmes television career as merely a tableaux of wacky guest appearances, let's consider "The Classics."   These are the truly great roles he played on television, roles which prove that Jeremy was more than just a "special guest star."   He was a very special actor, as well.
Romeo and Juliet - 1957 (Play)
Jeremy Brett made his U.S. television debut as "Paris" in this NBC Producer's Showcase presentation of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered on March 4, 1957.
This was also the U.S. TV debut of the distinguished Old Vic company, and the culmination of their successful North American tour, which began in September 1956.
Macbeth - 1960 (Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation)
Most Brettfans know that Jeremy Brett starred in a 1981 production of Macbeth (which see). However, 20 years previously he played "Malcolm" in a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of the play which was filmed on location in Scotland. (It was the same role he'd played on the Old Vic tour in 1956-'57.)
This version premiered on NBC on November 20, 1960. The title role was played by Maurice Evans, the Shakespearean actor perhaps best remembered today for his portrayal of Samantha's flamboyant warlock father on the sitcom Bewitched.   The formidable Judith Anderson played Lady Macbeth.
1960 was still the era of "live" television drama, and because this production of Macbeth was filmed for later broadcast it is now considered by many television historians to be the first "made-for-TV" movie. However, according to a 1960 TV Guide article, producer George Schaefer's quest for authentic Scottish filming locations didn't go smoothly. The castle at Cawdor (where King Duncan is murdered in the play) had become too modernized, so Schaefer settled for a more rustic castle called "Hermitage" as a backdrop.
Schaefer also had problems with the 250 local men he'd hired as extras for the battle scenes.   The non-actors didn't take their jobs seriously and kept giggling as they stumbled around in their armour and lost their helmets.  
Perhaps some of their silliness momentarily infected Jeremy. He later confessed in an interview to pulling a prank while making this film. While filming a scene where he was supposed to ride into Hermitage, JB mischievously lifted his helmet to reveal--curlers! He needed wavy hair for his role(No, JB's curlers don't appear in the finished film.)  
Thankfully, everything turned out okay in the end.   In fact, this prestigious production of Macbeth won five major Emmy awards and was shown in theatres and at European film festivals.  
Macbeth even had a royal premiere in London at the Royal Festival Hall on December 9, 1960, to benefit the British Red Cross Society. Incidentally, if you see a   theatre credit listed for Jeremy Brett as "Malcolm" at the Royal Festival Hall in 1960, that's what this it--not a play, but a screening of the film Macbeth (as the handbill below illustrates).
Since it originally debuted on The Hallmark Hall of Fame (and was partly financed by Hallmark), Macbeth had its 1963 US theatrical premiere at the Art Theatre Guild's Rockhill Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, where Hallmark is headquartered.
Today, Macbeth can be viewed at the Museum of Radio and Television in New York City.
NOTE - In 1954, George Schaefer directed a live version of Macbeth for The Hallmark Hall of Fame, which also starred Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson.
This version was released on tape by Video Yesteryear. Some video sites state that it co-stars Jeremy Brett as Malcolm. However, if you see this video advertised, DON'T rush out and buy it, thinking that it's the 1960 version. I made that mistake. Not only is the tape virtually unwatchable in blurry black-and-white, but another actor (Roger Hamilton) plays Malcolm, not JB. I think part of the confusion between the two versions stems from the fact that for some time the Internet Movie Database erroneously listed the 1960 cast in its entry for the 1954 version (it's since been corrected).


Sunday Night Play: "A Kind of Strength" - 1961 (Play)
This is a BBC Sunday Night Play that originally aired on January 29, 1961. Penned by prolific TV scripter and playwright N.J. Crisp, A Kind of Strength deals with the world of business. Crisp knew something about business since he managed a taxi fleet, sold typewriters and ran a pest-control company before becoming a full-time writer.
Jeremy Brett portrays "Julian Bennett," a doctor who left medicine to pursue a more lucrative career at a large accounting firm. Bennett clashes with another ambitious employee, ex-teacher "Leslie Palmer" (Michael Gwynn). Their conflict intensifies when Bennett falls in love with "Susan" (Diane Clare), a young secretary who just happens to be Palmr's daughter.  
Whether any copies of A Kind of Strength still exist today, I'm not sure.
The Ghost Sonata - 1962 (Play)
A comprehensive, illustrated study of the 1962 BBC production of   Strindberg's.
ITV Play of the Week: Three Roads to Rome - "The Rest Cure"   - 12/30/63 (Play)
They say   "All roads lead to Rome," and in this Play of the Week trilogy, one of those roads also leads to Jeremy Brett.
Three Roads to Rome showcased versatile actress Deborah Kerr (in her television debut) as three different characters in a trio of one-act plays--all set in Rome--by American dramatist Tad Mosel. Mosel's plays were adapted from the short stories "Venus Ascendant" by Martha Gellhorn, "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton, and "The Rest Cure" by Aldous Huxley.
Jeremy appeared in "The Rest Cure" as "Tonino," an Italian innkeeper. Ms. Kerr portrayed a refined Englishwoman who falls for the uncomplicated Tonino, which doesn't sit too well with her stuffy British fianc?
  
A reviewer in the Times of London felt the play had a 'high sugar content' and noted, "...'The Rest Cure', Huxley's story of the genteel English girl who preferred the simplicity of a young Italian innkeeper to the pomposity of her English fianc? lacked astringency and became no more than the story of the triumph of Miss Kerr and Mr. Jeremy Brett's innkeeper over Mr. Allan Cuthbertson's inefficiently Machiavellian plot to discredit him. Any conversion of the story into naive romance was not, however, the result of Miss Kerr's being invincibly herself but of an adaptation which wished to balance the earlier episodes with something simply happy."
Chopin and George Sand - The Creative Years - May 5, 1966
Don't recognize this title? Neither did I. It's not in any Jeremy Brett filmography that I've seen, so when I stumbled upon a mention of it in an old Times of London article, I was baffled and thrilled. An "unknown" JB performance?!
Apparently, this BBC 2 presentation was a sort of musical/biographical
documentary. It's described as "Illustrated studies setting music in its biographical context." It's unclear if JB appeared on screen or if he only provided a voiceover as Chopin. A review in the Times stated that the program made "clear that [Chopin's] association with the novelist [George Sand] influenced the composer by creating the situation in which he could compose more, but not any specific type of, music. Chopin's letters were read by Mr. Jeremy Brett and George Sand's by Miss Margaret Rawlings."  


JB plays "Viscount Goring," a dandy who is described as "the idlest man in London." He's kind of like Freddie Eynsford-Hill's sophisticated twin. When we first glimpse Goring, he's spouting a series of "Wilde"-ly witty bon mots. However, as the play goes on, we learn that he's much more than the foolish fop he appears to be.
This is truly one of JB's best performances. In fact, every performance in Husband is first-rate, and its plot (concerning a potential political scandal stemming from insider trading) is still relevant today. The cast boasts a host of talented British actors, including Margaret Leighton (who co-starred with JB in the 1958 stage play Variation on a Theme).
"Cheers" to the BBC for releasing this sparkling vintage from its vaults!
The Rivals - 1970   (Play)
Captain Jack Absolute is a sly rascal.   His father wants him to marry Lydia Languish, but Jack pretends not to want her.   Actually, Jack secretly loves Lydia.   Lydia loves Jack, too, but thinks he's really someone else.   Or, something like that.
Okay, the plot is a bit confusing, but, The Rivals is a farce--it's supposed to be confusing.   The first play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (which debuted in 1775) is chock full of mistaken identity, satire and romance.  
JB is "Absolute"-ly adorable as the comically dashing, grey-wigged Captain (whom the famous Mrs. Malaprop describes as "the very pineapple of   politeness").
The Rivals was originally broadcast on BBC-1's Play of the Month. It aired in the US as part of Joan Wilson's Classic Theatre series on PBS in 1975. Ms. Wilson (then still known as "Sullivan") filmed some on-location interviews and introductory segments with the cast of the play before it aired on Classic Theatre. Reportedly, this was the first time Joan and Jeremy worked together.
Incidentally, here's some background information about Classic Theatre:
The series' full title was Classic Theatre - The Humanities in Drama, and it debuted in September 1975. Like The Rivals, most of the other 12 plays presented on Classic Theatre originated on Play of the Month. The plays, ranging from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth to Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, spanned 400 years of Western drama.
Each play was preceded by Classic Theatre Preview, a half-hour introduction where scholars and cast members set the stage for that night's production. The preview for The Rivals was filmed on Saville Row in London at Richard Brinsley Sheridan's final residence, where Jeremy discussed the playwright's stormy last days.
If this all sounds rather high-brow, it was. In fact, Classic Theatre could be watched for credit at over 267 colleges in the US.
A gala premiere held for the series in Washington D.C. was attended by members of Congress and Joan Sullivan. Speaking to the assembled dignitaries, Ms. Sullivan made no apologies for the preponderance of British productions on PBS, explaining that it was a matter of quality and economics. She felt that American television simply couldn't match what the British had to offer. But, there was hope:


The Three Musketeers - 1966-'67
An Ideal Husband - 1969
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Affairs of the Heart - "Grace" - (10/12/74) - Play
Affairs of the Heart was a 1974 London Weekend Television anthology consisting of seven plays adapted from the works of Henry James by Terence Feely.
Each of the plays in Affairs of the Heart has a woman's name for its title.
Thus, James' short story Covering End becomes "Grace," for "Mrs. Grace
Gracedew," a vivacious, wealthy American widow portrayed by Diana Rigg.
In the sprightly "Grace,"   Mrs. Gracedew obtains a manor, and a man (Jeremy Brett's charming "Captain Yule") as part of the deal.
"Yule" be glad to know that Affairs of the Heart has been released on DVD in North America! More info here.
School for Scandal - 2/14/1975 (Play)
Another prestigious Play of the Month presentation, this 1975 adaptation of Sheridan's School for Scandal was described in Radio Times by director Stuart Burge as "a marvelous comedy that just happens to have been written in 1777.
We've tried to present it as though it were written yesterday, to give viewers a wild slice of life straight from the 18th century, where only the very few like the landowners and the Indian nabobs were rich, and everyone else who fancied himself in Society was dependent on them. It was a world where appearance was all that mattered, and intrigue and exotic fantasy was the breath of life."
Thus, Jeremy Brett plays "Joseph Surface," who is outwardly a paragon of virtue, but inwardly is a miserly fortune hunter.  
In Radio Times, Jeremy noted this was part of the play's "two-layered" style.
The characters present themselves with "superb carefully rehearsed charades, barbed and witty." But in reality there would have also been "smells, mange, filth running down the legs."  
Author Benedict Nightingale wrote in the same article, "As actor, [Jeremy is] both sensitive and intelligent; as man, outgoing, enthusiastic, garrulous; and, as Surfaces go, might seem more Charles than Joseph. But, his idea is to be, not an obvious villain, but a charming, concerned, likeable fellow."
As Jeremy told Nightingale, "Joe's a brilliant trickster, who gets fun out of manipulating others; a really naughty character." 

Affairs of the Heart - "Grace" - (10/12/74) - Play
Affairs of the Heart was a 1974 London Weekend Television anthology consisting of seven plays adapted from the works of Henry James by Terence Feely.
Each of the plays in Affairs of the Heart has a woman's name for its title.
Thus, James' short story Covering End becomes "Grace," for "Mrs. Grace
Gracedew," a vivacious, wealthy American widow portrayed by Diana Rigg.
In the sprightly "Grace,"   Mrs. Gracedew obtains a manor, and a man (Jeremy
Brett's charming "Captain Yule") as part of the deal.
"Yule" be glad to know that Affairs of the Heart has been released on DVD in North America! More info here.
School for Scandal - 2/14/1975 (Play)
Another prestigious Play of the Month presentation, this 1975 adaptation of Sheridan's School for Scandal was described in Radio Times by director Stuart Burge as "a marvelous comedy that just happens to have been written in 1777.
We've tried to present it as though it were written yesterday, to give viewers a wild slice of life straight from the 18th century, where only the very few like the landowners and the Indian nabobs were rich, and everyone else who fancied himself in Society was dependent on them. It was a world where appearance was all that mattered, and intrigue and exotic fantasy was the breath of life."
Thus, Jeremy Brett plays "Joseph Surface," who is outwardly a paragon of virtue, but inwardly is a miserly fortune hunter.  
In Radio Times, Jeremy noted this was part of the play's "two-layered" style.
The characters present themselves with "superb carefully rehearsed charades, barbed and witty." But in reality there would have also been "smells, mange, filth running down the legs."  
Author Benedict Nightingale wrote in the same article, "As actor, [Jeremy is] both sensitive and intelligent; as man, outgoing, enthusiastic, garrulous; and, as Surfaces go, might seem more Charles than Joseph. But, his idea is to be, not an obvious villain, but a charming, concerned, likeable fellow."
As Jeremy told Nightingale, "Joe's a brilliant trickster, who gets fun out of manipulating others; a really naughty character."