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10 August 2011
The Alphabet Murders - too bad the screenwriters weren't murdered.
The tape was technically flawless.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer British Studios got permission in the early 1960s to film several Agatha Christie mysteries. The best of the lot are the ones with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple.
I read that Miss Christie was not happy with what MGM did to her stories. Now I know why.
I thought Peter Ustinov the worst Poirot I'd ever seen. But then, I'd never seen Tony Randall as Poirot.
Mr. Randall was a gifted second banana, or best friend of the leading man, in countless sex farces of the late 1950 and 1960s.
I don't understand why he agreed to make this film unless he was under contract to MGM or the money was too good to pass-up. Unfortunately, the script was so flawed, and the direction so bungled, that neither Albert Finney nor David Suchet could have saved it.
Unless you are a great fan of films gone bad, or of Tony Randall, skip this one.
10 August 2011
A Countess From Hong Kong - A flawed but interesting last offering.
The tape was technically flawless.
The film, Charlie Chaplin's last, is a farce with a very brave and beautiful Sophia Loren in the title role, a badly mis-cast Marlon Brando as her leading man, several of Chaplin's children in assorted supporting or minor roles, and an almost Hitchcockian cameo by the writer/director.
The Countess stows away on a ship headed from Hong Kong, BCC, to the United States because she's tired of her life as a Russian courtesan in China, and wants to "get to America" to start a new life. The man she uses to aid her, and of course falls in love with, is a wealthy American who is in line for some diplomatic post.
He is outraged by her chutzpah but, for reasons unrevealed (He finds her too attractive? He never shows it.), refuses to turn her over the the ships officers. He becomes her accomplice and they end-up in Hawai'i enroute to the mainland.
There's lots of running around, opening and closing of doors, and nearly missed discovery. No where does Chaplin explain why Brando's character doesn't just pay for her passage. He apparently could well afford it.
Loren never looked lovelier. Brando, in his early forties, still had a remnant of the animalistic sex appeal that made him a star, with a smattering of "maturity" that could have given him a long career as a leading man like Cary Grant. Unfortunately Brando, unlike Grant, didn't know how to act in farce. Why Chaplin cast him is beyond me.
None the less, A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG is an interesting romp, especially if you want to see Loren act Brando into a corner and keep him there cowering.
07 August 2023
The Cost of the Refusal of the English to accept Human Nature
MAURICE is a story about three men, and roads taken or not taken.
Maurice Hall and Clive Durham are students at university. They meet and fall in love at a time in Britain when homosexual relationships between consenting adults, which both were, were illegal and punishable by draconian terms of imprisonment at "hard labour" or with flogging, or both.
Maurice and Clive never consummate their love. Ultimately, Clive marries a rich, naive young woman who remains that way. Durham is running for a seat in parliament and gives Hall the run of Durham's estate, Pendersleigh.
The under game keeper at Pendersleigh, Alec Scudder, is very attracted to Maurice, and one night enters Maurice' bedroom through a window and to Maurice' surprise, makes love to him, despite the difference in their social classes. .Maurice is, at last, no longer a virgin.
There is a series of misunderstandings and miscommunications between Hall and Scudder. Scudder has planned to emigrate with his brother to Argentina, but at the last minute abandons that plan in order to take-up a life with Maurice Hall.
Ishmael Merchant and James Ivory, as was their wont, created a visually sumptious film with some of the finest actors in Britain in the cast.
This 2-DVD set has added background material which illuminates the story even more.