Word: cockneyisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cockney Quxote...
...hours of film would not be enough to do Tolstoy justice, and Vidor has less than four. The inevitable result is a telescoping of scenes and a hopscotching through the plot that scat ters attention from one leading character to another. The cast speaks in discordant accents, ranging from Cockney to Italian to Middle European to Middlewestern, and some of the most complex of Toltoy's people can only be hinted at: Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine) is a gutural swashbuckler; the eternal peasant, 'laton (John Mills), has time only...
...hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation at the rude Professor Higgins, touching as she manfully struggles with a mouthful of marbles (when she swallows one, Higgins says cheerily: "Oh, don't worry, I have plenty more"), uproariously funny as she balances a teacup opening...
...suffer some more. His paintings for a war memorial shock the village elders because they depict Naked Men and Women. His most masterful masterpieces declared obscene by an ignorant magistrate, Stephen lurches off to London, coughing, and takes refuge in a London boarding house run by a little Cockney girl of his acquaintance. In Cronin's rendition, Jenny speaks Cockney as if she had learned it from a talking book, but Stephen finds "something in her, a simple quality of womanhood, of homely warmth," marries her and settles down to paint in slummy seclusion. "How happy he was with...
Britain's New Realism, about as delicate as a cockney costermonger's anecdote, has been rated a "cult of squalidity" by some proper Britons, who think crockery should remain belowstairs. But to date it has already produced a burgeoning handful of new talent. Among Painter Middleditch's contemporaries...