Turner Classic Movies will be airing this movie on the evening/overnight of November 25th, at 1:30 AM (C.S.T.).
Not entirely certain if this will be the uncut version that was presented in Sydney, Australia in 2005 (with the nudity intact). Keep an eye on this presentation and running time at TCM's website.
Thanks for the undate & good to hear it's going to be on TV again. Shame it has to be TCM as the quality of their broadcasts is like looking through a sock!
sharefrom the fios guide: 105 minutes; R, adults only, comedy
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I watched "Age of Consent" on TCM November 26 and was impressed with the quality of the film transfer to digital video. This movie was not "filmed through a sock." I saved the televised film to hard drive and then burned a DVD which looks wonderful. Robert Osborne, TCM host, interviewed Thelma Schoonmaker, Powell's third and last wife during the cablecast and she said that the version of "Age of Consent" broadcast on TCM had been completely restored with all excised scenes put back in. In other words the naked loveliness of 24 year old actress Helen Mirren is a major feature of the film.
"Age of Consent" was the last film directed by Michael Powell and it seems somewhat amateurish compared to "The Red Shoes," "Black Narcissus" and others filmed in the 1940s.
Celtfire, is there any way you would be able to make me a copy of this amazing film? I set my DVR to record the film, and it cut off the final 5 minutes, thereby rendering my copy useless.
This is the last piece to the Powell puzzle that I've been wanting to own on video, and I fear I may never get another chance to see it INTACT!!
I would be willing to offer you a trade of any in my library of some 4,000 films that I have.
Thank You,
Tony
It's on again Tue. Apr. 22 @ 3:30 AM EST on TCM.
Hope that helps.
I'm in the process of watching it - it's definitely a quirky little film, with some lovely photography, though I find some of the dialog almost untelligable (particularly Jack MacGowran's) - Mason was always a joy to watch in just about anything, and watching the young Helen Mirren here is like watching the young Bette Davis in some of her journeyman films prior to OF HUMAN BONDAGE - you just know she's "got something" (and I don't mean the nude scenes, of course!).
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