North and South
Posted: February 19th, 2013, 6:37 pm
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I debated whether I should put this in Westerns or TV and Media, but feel it works best here in my favorite thread.
For the past two weekends I have spend hours watching this mini series that I was unable to watch when it was first on. My daughter swears we watched it together but I think she's dreaming. I'm pretty sure it was on on my Bingo nights.
Anyway, it was loaded with bit parts for nearly every well known actor in Hollywood. Bob Mitchum as the Irish father of the wife of the girl married to one of the lead guys. Jimmy Stewart as a Southern lawyer. Hal Holbrook as President Lincoln. Jean Simmons as the mother of the other lead. There are a lot more that I can't quite recall at the moment. But also, all of the terrific character actors from all of the 50's and 60's T.V. shows are on hand. I've never seen Kirstie Alley in anything other than comedy movies and of course Cheers, but in this she is an extremist Northern sympathizer and has a few really good scenes to show her range. I'm surprised she never pursued more varied parts.
Part I deals with the friendship that develops between Orry (Patrick Swayze), and George (James Read), when they meet at West Point some 15 years before the start of the Civil War. Orry Main inherits his family plantation, Mont Royale in South Carolina, and George Hazzard inherits his family iron works in Pennsylvania, of which he shares responsibility with his brother. Much of the first chapters deal with the friends and enemies they each form during their years at West Point, and how each always covers the others' back. Later they visit each others families, marry, and have romances, all leading up to the beginning of the Civil War.
Part II is mainly the years of the war with various battles, imprisonment, and finally the end of the war leaving no plan for the freed slaves and how they should function. Except for the minor information on the Lincoln assassination, North and South is a pretty good anthology on the dates and battles fought across the eastern U.S.
I'm looking forward to Part III this weekend, which I assume will be more directed to the personal lives of the lead families, and their attempts to rebuild following the devastation of the South.
Is anyone else watching this series on the Encore channel?
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I debated whether I should put this in Westerns or TV and Media, but feel it works best here in my favorite thread.
For the past two weekends I have spend hours watching this mini series that I was unable to watch when it was first on. My daughter swears we watched it together but I think she's dreaming. I'm pretty sure it was on on my Bingo nights.
Anyway, it was loaded with bit parts for nearly every well known actor in Hollywood. Bob Mitchum as the Irish father of the wife of the girl married to one of the lead guys. Jimmy Stewart as a Southern lawyer. Hal Holbrook as President Lincoln. Jean Simmons as the mother of the other lead. There are a lot more that I can't quite recall at the moment. But also, all of the terrific character actors from all of the 50's and 60's T.V. shows are on hand. I've never seen Kirstie Alley in anything other than comedy movies and of course Cheers, but in this she is an extremist Northern sympathizer and has a few really good scenes to show her range. I'm surprised she never pursued more varied parts.
Part I deals with the friendship that develops between Orry (Patrick Swayze), and George (James Read), when they meet at West Point some 15 years before the start of the Civil War. Orry Main inherits his family plantation, Mont Royale in South Carolina, and George Hazzard inherits his family iron works in Pennsylvania, of which he shares responsibility with his brother. Much of the first chapters deal with the friends and enemies they each form during their years at West Point, and how each always covers the others' back. Later they visit each others families, marry, and have romances, all leading up to the beginning of the Civil War.
Part II is mainly the years of the war with various battles, imprisonment, and finally the end of the war leaving no plan for the freed slaves and how they should function. Except for the minor information on the Lincoln assassination, North and South is a pretty good anthology on the dates and battles fought across the eastern U.S.
I'm looking forward to Part III this weekend, which I assume will be more directed to the personal lives of the lead families, and their attempts to rebuild following the devastation of the South.
Is anyone else watching this series on the Encore channel?
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