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Summary: Noble House
Comment: I remember watching this on NBC some years ago and really enjoyed it. I just recently saw it was available on DVD and purchased it. It's quite good.
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Summary: Best Mini Series Ever
Comment: This is probably the best mini series ever produced. It's a high budget movie that was divided into several weeks. It's the story of high finance in pre-China Hong Kong and has some of everything from action to intrigue.
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Summary: crystal clear - far better than the tape version
Comment: The book has been condensed into a very worthwhile dvd.
Dunross always faced one issue, the melding of British Hong Kong and China, and this is the background for the struggle for who will control Struan's, the Noble House of British Hong Kong - their historical Hong Kong rival, Gornt, or an American raider who will try to play both ends against the middle - his middle.
The cinematography is tremendous, and the acting is always good, and usually better than people might expect.
Julia Nicksun played Orlanda Ramos, the Eurasian beauty who would have been the Angelina Jolie of Hong Kong 1963. She is picture perfect.
Brosnan, the Tai-Pan of the Noble House, wins, in part, because he thinks in terms of a broader picture than the Americans, one of whom is portrayed as a clownish upstart who only has money...
It isn't enough.
The people who rule Hong Kong focus on the transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997; this is a quiet reminder that countries that think, and act, in terms of centuries, tend to do better than those who don't.
Buy this, whether for the subtle conflicts between the beautiful Deborah Raffin and Julia Nicksun, or to see, in part, how the men who rule the world think about the world, and then act.
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Summary: Noble House
Comment: Great movie......follows the book.....It is a long movie but it can be watched in 4 segments.
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Summary: very good series
Comment: i had been waiting for a long time for this series. i had seen it around 12 years ago on star tv in india and liked it then and wanted it to be a part of my collection. well finally my wait was over and i got the item in april and was not disappointed. the quality is good. the only problem i sometimes faced was that the audio was low during dialogue but pretty loud during the background score, so had to use the remote a lot.
about the series, it is a real good drama of politics in hong kong at the time and pierce does a real got job as taipan. the inital reels are a bit boring as it takes its on sweet time to develop but once you are through that phase it is a memorable series for keeps.
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