VHS : White Mischief

Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301123013
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301123018
Label: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Manufacturer: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Release Date: August 30, 1990
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Theatrical Release Date: 1988-05
Sales Rank: 4155

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Truth
Interesting and easy read - Fox has done his research well. My late husband's parents were Kenya settlers and his father had NO respect for the Happy Valley crowd AT ALL. Fox has certainly filled in many of the gaps left in the story my husband, Len Gill told me and has introduced me to a new side of some of the characters Len knew. I only wish I had read this book before my husband died of cancer. So many questions - so little time for answers.

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- Diana, vamp of Kenya, meets her 'Earl'
Besides the book and VHS, WHITE MISCHIEF, I have another book, written by: either the daughter of Diana's fourth husband, Lord THOMAS Delamere, or written by a friend of the daughter of Lord Thomas. She speaks of 'father' introducing Diana - but, her name does not reflect a direct kinship.

Leda Farrant, author of, "Diana, Lady Edlamere, and the LORD ERROLL MURDER," tells a story much different from the movie. Her conclusions are not footnoted and she clearly admits that in Kenya, ... Read More

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- A brilliant movie set in Africa
This nice film set in the 'white highlands' of Kenya in the 1940s paints a picture of a small community of British expat settlers living in Africa in the period when the second world war has brocken out. For them it is a small close knit society of class and high life, of philandering and gentlemen. The movie accuratly ignores the Africans because this was the nature of this colonial lifestyle, however its detail is immense. The servant of one of the main characters, is a dark skinned Muslim, ... Read More

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- Social Rot, African Style
Seldom has social rot been more beautifully photographed than here. It's 1940. Bombs are raining down on London, soldiers are dying across Europe, Hitler is on the rise, yet not a drop of alcohol is being spilled by the rich and idle colonialists of British east Africa. Time is spent drinking and gossiping, drinking and swapping mates, drinking and dancing, and drinking and cross-dressing. It's all really rather empty and boring, sort of a sub-Saharan "La Dolce Vita", summed up in the death-mask ... Read More

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- Actually, White Decadence
This is on my list of somewhat inaccessible films (Inside Moves is another) which reward those who make the necessary effort to see it. (I do not recall either's appearance on television.) Based on James Fox's novel of the same name and ably directed by Michael Radford, White Mischief examines a colony of British expatriates near Nairobi in the 1940s. Blessed with an abundance of wealth and leisure, the hedonistic residents of "Happy Valley" seem determined to break as many of the Ten Commandments ... Read More

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