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...generations past: "Lloyd George knew my father/ My father knew Lloyd George," sung, ad infinitum, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers. This play features a potty old retired general (Ralph Richardson), whose thought processes seem to have stopped around World War I, and his spry-spirited wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She is resisting progress in another way by making calm, matter-of-fact preparations to commit suicide if the government bulldozes a throughway across the baronial estate. It doesn't and she doesn't. This asthmatic little item would wheeze its way into oblivion but for the robust...
Although the trio constitute most of the film, Schlesinger has not slighted even the smallest subordinate role. A 53-year-old hence unemployable businessman (Tony Britton) is a character worthy of a tragedy all to himself. In a single scene, Peggy Ashcroft as Alex's mother furnishes her daughter with an almost schizophrenic past...
...Separate Islands. He goes into the more substantial second play, Landscape. Here an estranged servant couple (David Waller, Peggy Ashcroft) are living in a now empty house in the country, measuring out their middle age in walks to the pub and vigils by the window. Their respective emotional landscapes-again, sketched in interlocking monologues-are as refracted as John Bury's setting, which strands them on separate domestic islands in the same wide kitchen...
FROM CHEKHOV WITH LOVE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dorothy Tutin, Nigel Davenport and Wendy Hiller star in this biographical drama based on the life of the 19th century Russian playwright...
Divorced. By Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 58, well-versed Shakespearean actress and pillar of Britain's Old Vic: Jeremy Hutchinson, 50, London barrister whose roster of clients has included Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Party-girl Christine Keeler; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in London...