Word: bathsheba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presumably, Schlesinger and Raphael intended to get as far away from Darling as possible in choosing to translate the Thomas Hardy novel to the screen. Hardy's tale of Bathsheba Everdene and her headstrong affair with the no-good Sgt. Troy is set an exact 100 years before Darling. In both films, Miss Christie does wend her way through several men. But in Darling, she was consciously presented as amoral. In the new film, Miss Christie is highly moral, rejecting two suitors because she doesn't love them, foolishly rushing into marriage with the dashing Troy (Terence Stamp), yet apologizing...
...grassy, sheep-grazing county of "Wessex" - England's Dorsetshire -lives Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a typical calamity-prone Hardy heroine. Willful, flirtatious, she is pursued by men with names as solid as a Chippendale sideboard. They are Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished sheepman; Boldwood (Peter Finch), a strange, eroded landowner of whom people whisper, warns Bathsheba's servant girl, that "he has no passionate parts"; and Troy (Terence Stamp), a seducer-soldier who has his way with any lass who meets his come-hither eyes...
Spurning Oak, turning Boldwood into a racked, frustrated admirer, Bathsheba chooses Troy for her lover, and later for her husband. The marriage proves disastrous, and Troy disappears after the death in childbirth of a servant girl he had "ruined." When rumors of Troy's death reach Boldwood, he begs Bathsheba to reconsider his offer of marriage...
Months later, at their engagement party, the wild-eyed Troy enters to repossess his wife. Boldwood guns down his rival and is taken to prison, leaving the way for Bathsheba and Oak, who has stood patiently in the wings until the melodrama played itself...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). An original ballet by Carlos Surinach on the David and Bathsheba theme...