Word: badel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Dilke (Charles D. Gray) is an eminent Liberal Party politician with excellent prospects of entering Gladstone's Cabinet. He is also a man with an indecorous sexual past. A young Mrs. Crawford (Sarah Badel), anxious to free herself from a disastrous marriage, arms her impotent husband with the information that she has not only committed adultery with Dilke but has also been his partner in more orgiastic antics. Though possibly innocent of wrongdoing with Mrs. Crawford, Sir Charles dare not defend his name, since he is guilty of a previous liaison with her mother (Coral Browne). The Crawford...
...sight of them, for all have sprung, fatherless, from some worldwide parthenogenetic conspiracy-a detail borrowed from the eerie Village of the Damned (1960). The sequel pales in comparison, as do most sequels. But it is filmed with taste and acted in crisp style, particularly by Alan Badel as a witty geneticist who strikes just that note of detachment that makes the whole thing seem lightly plausible. The movie's spell holds nearly to the end, when all the far-out fun of pseudoscience suddenly shapes up as a message. Too bad that those sinister boys and girls have...
...rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...
...countess retaliates by suggesting that Hero seduce the governess. The seduction scene is the brilliant apex of the play, and as Alan Badel masterfully shades his performance from dueling banter to abashed tenderness, his acting moves beyond skill into the permanently and poignantly memorable. The next morning the governess flees the chateau, and the others seem ready to go on playacting at life as if it were still another comedy by Marivaux. All except Hero. He has seen himself for what he is and the world for what it is, and he taunts the countess' lover into challenging...