Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story tells of a day in the life of Major Cornelius Melody (Ret.), the son of an Irish inn-keeper who once fought bravely under Wellington at the Battle of Talavera. When Melody emigrated, he brought with him the myth that he had formerly been a land-holding aristocrat, now reduced by circumstance to keeping a tavern in America...
That was enough for Judge Simpson, a Florida aristocrat whose grandfathers fought on both sides in the Civil War. Ordering the restaurant doors opened to Negroes, Simpson enjoined the Manucys and "each member" (about 1,500) of the Ancient City Hunting Club from molesting the owners or Negro customers in any way. James Brock, whose Monson Motor Lodge was set afire, still had a point. For the Civil Rights Act to work in St. Augustine, he testified, "we will need very strong law enforcement for a long time...
Setting out to acquire at least the tie and the accent, the young man hires, or rather keeps, as his tutor an aristocrat (Denholm Elliott) whose family has banished him, for some reason or other, from polite society. The ensuing scenes of a rouge's education provide some of the film's funniest moments, crisply flattening Oxford, Cambridge, and a variety of upper-class attitudes...
...producers' horror, that he would not attend. He finally did appear at the theater only because someone had reached an aunt of his in Memphis, who thereupon told Faulkner that she was going to the premiere and expected him to escort her. With the negligent indifference of an aristocrat, he did not bother to wear a tie or shave off a three-day stubble...
...questions to be settled by any player is how much of Hamlet's madness is real and how much feigned. For Sawyer, a good deal is real. In the "rogue and peasant slave" soliloquy he even becomes quite violently deranged. He does not give us the 18th-century melancholy aristocrat, or the 19th-century fragile neurasthenic. Nor does he recall Barrymore's Laborious Hamlet, or Olivier's Athletic Hamlet, or Weaver's Feverish Hamlet...