Word: aristocratic
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...similarity between the middle-aged child of the book and the Sir Guy Grand that Southern brings to the screen is purely coincidental. Sir Guy, an erudite industrial magnate with Oxford diction and an aristocrat's locked jaw, gets his slightly malicious kicks by showing, over and over again, that men chase money. In one of the very first scenes, Sir Guy gives a traffic bobby 500 pounds for eating the parking ticket so that he can smugly pronounce that "every man has his price." The rest of the movie consists of various anecdotal restatements of that same theme until...
...teachers are closest to the boys. One is Dobbs (Pat Hingle), an American Mr. Chips, a cuddly Teddy bear of a man who sees his boys as substitutes for the sons he never had. His antithesis is Malley (Fritz Weaver), a martinet of Greek and Latin, a forbidding aristocrat of learning waging a slightly paranoid struggle for excellence in an age of slipshod egalitarianism. With tongues as foils, this pair fences throughout the play, and the acting level is simply sustained perfection. The third teacher, Reese (Ken Howard), is a puzzled innocent, a gym teacher earnestly trying to isolate...
...patented oblique stare of incipient insanity as the feckless, fatuous Louis. Sutherland is both immensely vital and painstakingly subtle. His lumbering lout is a Gallic version of Steinbeck's Lennie. Yet with a tiny moue he transforms the sow's-ear peasant into a silken, purse-lipped aristocrat. Alternately bumbling and mincing, Sutherland irreverently manages to impale both egalite and elegance...
Carswell, a Tallahassee aristocrat who was appointed by President Nixon from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, appeared unruffled by the criticism. The screening committee of the American Bar Association had unanimously certified the Court nominee "qualified" for the high bench...
Says Director Paul Almond: "He's so different in every role that people who have seen him several times cannot recognize him later." In Interlude, with Oskar Werner, Sutherland played a bumbling family friend; in Joanna, a fading, dying aristocrat; in The Split, a hired killer; in The Dirty Dozen, a fumbling draftee. The identity crisis will soon be overcome, however, with the release of M.A.S.H. this week and Start the Revolution Without Me next week. In M.A.S.H. he portrays a zany surgeon operating behind the lines during the Korean War, while in Revolution he doubles up on himself...