i notice that the imdb class international velvet a an american movie and this despite the fact it film in britain and have a british director and an almost entirely british cast . mind you it be fund with american money and produce by an american studio so by definition it be technically an american movie i guess that why international velvet have such a typically american ethnocentric view of the english . another reviewer have state that everyone talk in ridiculous and posh accent etc and i totally agree and it laughable the way the brit be portray in this movie though perhaps not as laughable a tatum o ` neal english accent which be every bit as bad a al pacino scottish accent in revolution . i guess if the heroine be play by a genuine english actress an american audience wouldn ` t be able to relate to her international velvet be a rather drab movie that best view on a boring sunday afternoon which be when i saw it . i will give the movie credit for the scene where the german rider fall off his horse because for some unexplained reason i find this rather amuse in a movie devoid of amusement .