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Black Jack

Black Jack

Comedy, Adventure

Ken Loach

Jean Franval, Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Andrew Bennett, Packie Byrne

1979

UK

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Completed

English

USA: 105 mins

2025-02-20 02:41:25

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This film (drama)Also known asBlack Jack,is aUKProducerwomen sex,At1979Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish,Current Douban rating0.0(For reference only)。
Yorkshire - 1750. This film tells the intertwining lives of two young teenagers: Tolly, an orphan apprenticed at a draper's, and Belle, a young girl who has never fully recovered from a fever. Tolly's life takes an unwelcome turn when he is reluctantly locked in a room with a hypothetical corpse (which serves the role of Franval in the title). Black Jack is a very charming rogue who escapes by submitting a spoon to his throat, preventing a death by hanging. Black Jack captures Tolly and the two head out on the road. At the same time, Belle is kept by her wealthy parents, ensuring that her mental state does not become public knowledge and disturb her sister's socially ambitious marriage to a caregiver—done in the terrifying style of the 1750s. During her transport to safety, an accidental release introduces her to Tolly. There are various conspiracies and complications, but fundamentally Tolly’s “doctor” begins working, initiating a revival for the medical fair throughout Yorkshire and in Belle's travels. Events are maliciously manipulated by Tolly, with Hodge, played by Andrew Bennett, influencing a strikingly thin boy companion. The film's strength lies partly in its very strong character development and partly in its illumination of a past era. Most importantly, it discusses the interactions between these two aspects, showing a society's expectations of maturity, independence, and young people being more self-sufficient than we currently are. It also reveals a more official indifference to risks than is standard in the present UK.

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