Ok, elephant in the Great Hall first. Despite the clever trick photography and the outsized furniture, I just couldn’t believe in the almost thirty-year-old Mary Pickford as the young “Ceddy”. Aside from the fact that she was attired as if she was an extra on a film about the English Civil War, it just didn’t work for me at all. This cinematic version of the book sticks closer to the original text, allowing us to briefly meet more of the family “Dorincourt” including the wastrel “Bevis” (Colin Kenny) who has manages to irk his father, the Earl (Claude Gillingwater) by marrying an American (also...