Comparing the Old Movie and the New Movie of Pride and Prejudice

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We get TCM so we did watch the old black and white movie, and also the new one and it seems that they are a bit different. In the old movie, everyone got married even the plain one who was more interested in playing the piano than in meeting boys. I did find the new version better in showing that the father had a farm and that the house overlooked the barn yard and it showed how people acted in those days and that when a man only had daughters, they did not inherit the property when he died, so they had to get married off and having a large dowry was better. The old one was very romantic and the new one was rare also in that everyone could see it, unless many of the films nowadays. So what movie did you like the best? Oh did it compare favorably to the book or did the put in things that were not in it or kept things out that should have made it clearer?