Word: chapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Road. Onscreen, Caine's impact seems half visceral, half sociological. He is professionally at home in such separate skins as those of an Establishment army officer or a U.S. Southerner, but his soul seems to belong to his working-class roles. He is that new hero, the chap who is supposedly above class-but if he really is, why does he keep aggressively displaying his non-U traits and compulsively needling Old Blighty's oldest values? With Caine, all this springs from something deeper than dialogue and technique, as does his mock-deadly appeal to women...
...Eccentric on oboe: Poor chap, puffing away he builds so much pressure inside his head that it is a wonder he is only half crazy. If that were not enough, he spends 15 masochistic hours a week shaving reeds for his mouthpiece. He has gotten over his fainting spells; now he just snarls...
...about the chap who lost his false teeth in Burma, and has been looking for his bridge on the River Kwai...
...pudgy, middle-aged chap (Rudolf Hrušinski) who works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
Bang! Bang! You're Dead! Tony Randall whirls just in time to see a chap fall out of a closet. The chap lies very still, and Tony notices a large dagger stuck between his shoulder blades. Eyes narrowed, Tony thinks fast, then offers his analysis of the situation: "There's been some foul play...