Word: bounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is fascinating about a show of this sort is that it is a sociological fossil pit. The American hero (Brad Blaisdell) is an untainted saint of ineptitude. His French rival (Michael Tartel) is a bounder of dashing expertise. The girl that both of them vie for is a strawberry blonde (Kimberly Farr) with a pragmatic eye for betting on a long shot. There is a marvelously agile dance number called The Tickle Toe, and a few ribs are tickled as well...
...commissary waitress, Susie (Mary beth Hurt), who has granted her favors to some married bounder and is, as she puts it, "a little bit pregnant," provides the writing duo with an inspiration. They will pair her soon-to-be-born child with the roughrider of the purple sage and tug at the nation's heartstrings...
...huge plastic bag. The deceased in fact is a professor of logic named McFee. Like McFee, all the Jumpers are professors of philosophy at the college where Dotty's husband teaches. They have been organized as gymnasts by the vice chancellor of the college, an unscrupulous bounder, lecher and pragmatist called Sir Archibald Jumper. "McFee's dead," Jumper announces. "Shot himself ... in a plastic bag." The question is why. "It's hard to say," replies Jumper. "He was always tidy...
...sons, Denis Quilley and Ronald Pickup are more than adequate but, by comparison with Olivier and Cummings, less than satisfying. Quilley lacks Jamie's brass as a kind of Broadway bounder; Pickup fails to capture the boyish, romantic openness of the 23-year-old Edmund, O'Neill's image of his youthful self. Still, both succeed in expressing some of the play's sorrow and outrage at life's pattern of betrayal. "None of us can help the things life has done to us," Mary says at one point. "They're done before...
...titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...