The Wicked Lady (1983 film)

The Wicked Lady
Directed byMichael Winner
Written byLeslie Arliss
Michael Winner
additional dialogue
Gordon Glennon
Aimée Stuart
Based onThe Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall
Produced byYoram Globus
Menahem Golan
StarringFaye Dunaway
Alan Bates
John Gielgud
Denholm Elliott
Hugh Millais
CinematographyJack Cardiff
Edited byMichael Winner
Music byTony Banks
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (United Kingdom)[1]
MGM/UA (United States)
Release date
  • 22 July 1983 (1983-07-22)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million (est.)[2] or $15 million[3]
Box office$724,912[2][4]
Faye Dunaway being fitted for a wig by Paul Huntley for the film.

The Wicked Lady is a 1983 British-American period drama directed by Michael Winner and starring Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, and Hugh Millais. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[5] It is a remake of the 1945 film of the same name, which was one of the popular series of Gainsborough melodramas.

  1. ^ "The Wicked Lady (1983)". BBFC. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Andrew Yule, Hollywood a Go-Go: The True Story of the Cannon Film Empire, Sphere Books, 1987 p43-45
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference mill was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ The Wicked Lady at Box Office Mojo
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Wicked Lady". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 June 2009.