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Close your eyes and you'd swear you were listening to Montgomery Clift. Open them, however, and all you have is Ben Chaplin, the young British actor, who may be able to match the indolent flatness of Clift's voice, but lacks the sinuous ambiguity Clift brought to the role of fortune-hunting Morris Townsend in the 1949 movie The Heiress...
...fact, so conscious of her lack of "magnificence" that she is instantly suspicious of the attentions of Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin). Morris has no money and a shady past, but all of New York acknowledges his rare good looks and, even rarer, his lively charm and sense of adventure. Dr. Sloper is so impressed (or is it threatened?) by Morris that he can only explain the young suitor's attentions to Catherine as financial savvy. "He must think she has 80,000 a year," the Doctor says...
...Chaplin, the Hugh Grant-ish twinkie from The Truth About Cats & Dogs, makes an admirable about-face to become this brooding, swanky manipulator. As in his previous film, however, he projects a wheezy lack of mystery: a bad move in a role once played by Montgomery Clift. Finney and Smith are, as always, convincing, but they show no new sides of their prodigious talents. Smith's Lavinia, in particular, is a near-transplant of her kooky chaperone from A Room With a View...
...Charlie Chaplin ads and Apple's "1984" ad are both available at the touch of a button...
...stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...