The Wicked Lady (1983)

Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales ... see more  , Oliver Tobias , Glynis Barber , Joan Hickson , Helena McCarthy , Mollie Maureen , Marina Sirtis , Nicholas Gecks , Hugh Millais , Guinevere John , Cyril Conway , Derek Francis , David Gant , Lucy Hornak , Tony Martin , Fiona McArthur , Malcolm Mudie , Catherine Neilson , Ellen Pollock , Maggie Rennie , John Savident , Ewen Solon , Marianne Stone , George Tovey , Dermot Walsh , Arthur Whybrow , Mark Burns , Roger Brierley , Celia Imrie , John Pierce Jones , Judy Maynard , Robert Putt , Mark Sinden , Norman Mitchell , Teresa Codling , Pamela Cundell , Terence Mountain , Tony Martin (VIII)

Faye Dunaway stars in Michael Winner's labored re-make of the 1945 swashbuckler, which was co-scripted by Leslie Arliss, the original director of the 1945 film. Dunaway is Lady Barbara Skelton, a lady... read more  of the royal class, who becomes a highway robber, taking up with Captain Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates), a highwayman and her lover. Because of a notorious whiping scene in which Lady Barbara and Jackson's girlfriend (Marina Sirtis) take horsewhips to one another, tearing their clothing to strategically-placed ribbons, the film was held back from release because Winner refused to cut the salacious footage. After corralling author Kingsley Amis, and directors John Schlesinger, Karel Reisz, and Lindsay Anderson to attest to the redeeming social value of the scene, the scene stayed in the film. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi