Cold comfort farm

Thanks for the tip, I loved the book.

I loved the quivering congregation in the church.

The quivering brethren ?

I have a DVD of the film somewhere, and just live the book. I haven’t seen the series, and am away from wifi just now, but will definitely catch up when I get home.

What did she see in the woodshed though?
The Quivering Brethren were brilliant!

Was the clue in the opening scene ?

Thanks - I loved the book, too.

I love this story and the all star caste film play of it. What a diplomat Miss Poste is!

Is it the one with Kate Beckinsale? I loved it. Annoyingly gave the video away and never got it back because they loved it too. My daughter based her life for a while on the book and decided to organise everyone’s lives for them for a while. Thankfully it didn’t last.

Loved this for my first sight of Rufus Sewell

Great film. Laughed most of the way through it.

I love the bit when they make the connection between Seth's 'molloking' and the village girls getting pregnant ?

Loved the book and this is such a great adaptation. My aunt and I used to love repeating the line when we were reluctant to do something that involved going outside "OhNo Can't do that. There's something nasty in the woodshed".

Strangely enough this thread made me think of I Capture the Castle and, lo and behold it’s on BBC4 now. As with CCF I loved the film and the book. I’ve missed half of it so will watch it on catchup later.

I didn't enjoy it. Thought it was silly and couldn't understand 4 star rating. I seem to be on my own?

MayBee70
Both films were absolute treats. A refreshing change from much of the current programmes.

Nadateurbe, you are not alone!
I recorded it , and began to watch, but turned it off after 20 minutes or so.

nadateturbe Aunti Flo You have to watch it knowing that it is going to be silly. It is a skit on the books that were so popular at the time this one was written - Lady Chatterley and her uncouth but sexy gamekeeper, who nevertheless spouted a lot of rural philosophising and male angst, Agatha Christie's feudal hierarchies, ignorant and unhygienic scullery-maids and forelock-tugging farm hands, the farm-hands living the innocent "natural" life written about by town-dwelling spinster lady novellists.

Plus this was also around the time a lot of protectively-reared upper and middle-class women had been stretching their wings and joining nursing units at the front in WW1, or re-organising their lower-class neighbours into modern habits of cleanliness and the shocking new science of contraception.

It is worth watching for Rufus Sewell, anyway - and for the quivering brethren and their fire-breathing pastor.