And I know too, no one can beat the class of the Goldfinger Bond Girl in the 1983 version playing the opera singer for instance, so I should move on and give this 2015 version a change. The same goes, it seems, for the Oxford English of the upper class, which is no longer stressed so much. I know, the prudish kissing that was the norm back then, we no longer see, so Tommy & Tuppence have come of age. I just loved the 1980s version from the 1920s, so I could not help comparing this episode with the 'original version'. But I miss the aristocracy in knicker-boxers, and the evil butlers or housemaids, just to just give one cliché example. With the Cold War going on there is indeed plenty of room for suspense, or, for these 'romantic detectives'. But time moves on and it is a nice change to see these stories told again, this time from the perspective of the 1950s. It still ranks as one of my all time favorite series. As was said with the 1980s version with Francesca Annis and James Warwick, Tommy and Tuppence do not show up a lot in Agatha Christie stories, but whenever they do, they are fun! And how these two were back then, around 19.
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