Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction, an understated screenplay, and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
Without the famous product of my employer, the good, great and dynamic Bell System, all of the cover gentlemen would be in a pickle...
...there is respite to her loneliness: in the grubby lodging house where she creeps to wait out her time, she meets a penniless young writer (Tom Bell) and falls in love. Leslie lives in a dingy cubbyhole under the eaves, an L-shaped chamber sliced out of a larger room by a flimsy partition; beyond this wall lives a Negro musician (Brock Peters). For a while Leslie manages to keep the fact of her pregnancy from her lover. But the musician, eaten with jealousy, tells him that he has heard her being sick in the mornings. Secrets are hard...
...Shaped Room marks Leslie Caron's successful transition from gamin to grownup. Her love scenes with hawk-faced Tom Bell are vivid; her way of mumbling silently to herself in moments of despair evokes such heartbreak that viewers will want to hug her and say, there, there, everything will be all right. There is a taste of Honey and an aftertaste of Anger about The L-Shaped Room that give it an honorable place among British slice-of-life films...
...Somewhere along in here I began to get excited about magnets, and I remember discovering electric bells and batteries. With my allowance I bought a pound of wire, a battery and a bell--I guess I was fourteen. I made batteries with potassium dichromate dissolved in sulfuric acid. I had a little workshop in the storeroom. Once, to show the batteries, I carried them out on a tray and tripped; I spilled sulfuric acid all over the living room floor...