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Despite his limitless Cockney verve and 2,000,000-candlepower smiles, Tommy Steele's range is small, and the movie's relentless series of overproduction numbers serve to reveal his limits. Of the cast of thousands, only Cyril Ritchard as a pauperized playwright and Grover Dale as Kipps's clogging boyhood colleague come off well, largely because their appearances are confined to a few key scenes...
...Ginger Baker, 28, is a dazzling drummer, perhaps the only one in the rock field who can sustain long, inventive solos. His crackling stickwork and splintered rhythms give Cream a complex yet driving beat that few rock groups can equal. An antic cockney, he drums on other things besides drums: on tours, he leaves behind a trail of hotel bills for damage to furniture and other property...
Slums & Monuments. In Ireland, the English tend to become more Irish than the Irish. The taxi driver who took Pritchett to his first hotel was full of "bedads" and "begobs," but turned out to be a cockney. Ironically, the great buildings of this attractive city were erected by the Anglo-Irish in their 18th century heyday; fortunately, they escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once...
Half a Sixpence, based on an H. G. Wells rags-to-riches-to-rags story, stars Hal Holden as the singing and dancing cockney lad who moves blithely from one class and one fortune to another...
...which isn't much--with the hero's part. Murray Head is a lot sexier. And Miss Mills, though she doesn't look terribly different from the way she did when she was 14, is sexiest of all. But the best part of the Boulting Brothers' movie is the Cockney accent--soft, slurred, turning every remark into a lyric. Other than that, it's sedate. Hayley Mills' transition into womanhood has yet to be indicated on the screen, no matter what the publicity says. Take the whole family...