Word: cloakful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...
...Parts 1 and 2, in which the character of Sir John Falstaff, "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts," dominates the stage. Welles is probably the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat for the role. Immense, waddling, jowly, pantomiming with a great theatrical strawberry nose and crafty, porcine eyes, he takes command of scenes less with spoken English than with body English. In whatever he does Welles is never en tirely bad-or entirely excellent. In this film there flickers the glitter of authentic genius, along with great stony stretches...
...Cloak, Another Man's Dagger...
...meeting at which a blank check was given to Confraternita's treasurer to pay Bernini. Its twin, of Benefactor Antonio Cepparelli, was done a decade later. Drill holes in the eyes heighten their lifelike aspect, and the craggy hand of Coppola that emerges from the cloak, as if from no possible shoulder, adds to the theatrical immediacy of the long lost work. Lavin believes that the Coppola bust was done by Bernini at age 13. Highly improbable? Yes, except for the dating, and the fact that the prodigy went on to rebuild Rome...
Coat hangs on a double frame-up. A dumb penguin of a waiter (Roddy Mc-Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted...