Film:
Knights and Emeralds
 Year: 1986
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Country: UK Genre: Comedy
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Director:
Ian Emes |
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Starring:
Warren
Mitchell, Tracie Bennett, Beverly Hills, Christopher Wild |
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No trailer Available |
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Knights and Emeralds Synopsis - Knights and Emeralds is set in the Midlands in the UK and centres around Kevin a drummer in an all white marching band. A lot of his mates at school are in a rival all black marching band and Kevin's loyalties are constantly spilt between his band and his friends. Also he is trying to choose between two girls one from each band who is vying for his attentions. Kevin decides to try out for the rival band that all his mates are in. But which band and which girl will win out in the end? |
| Review of Knights and Emeralds - The plot as above sounds rather trite, but in reality Knights and Emeralds very skillfully sets itself up as a typical teenage flick, but delivers a very worthy attempt at tackling the subject of racism. It of course doesn't tackle the matter of racism in a particularly hard hitting way (even for the times it was made in), but really that is never the films aim, and for the fact that it is not hard hitting the message seems to come through more powerfully. The film was ahead of its time, but is practically unheard of and even TV tends not to show the film due to its depiction of racial tensions - this is a real shame for a very worthy film. This is a film that could only have been made in England in the 1980's, but in terms of low budget comedies with more than a bit of substance and relevance, then this is really a very good effort indeed. |
| The reasons I recommend Knights and Emeralds are: 1. A very good and worthy story. 2. A very good soundtrack of mid 1980's pop - which includes a particularly excellent song called "Something Special" by Stephen Duffy and Sandii. |
