Word: courtenay
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...heart and soul to prove his love of country. Julie Christie, frankly passionate and vulnerable as Lara, proves again that she is a vital presence on the screen. Steiger, who makes his beauty-and-the-beast role a seething study of precariously balanced lusts, Ralph Richardson, Siobhan McKenna, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham, all meet the film's exacting standard. In a vivacious debut, Actress Chaplin indicates that a striking resemblance to her father may be somewhat more than skin-deep...
KING RAT. James Clavell's novel about the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp is an unforgettable screen drama, strongly played by James Fox, Tom Courtenay and George Segal-the last as a G.I. wheeler-dealer who cashes in on the misery of his fellow inmates...
...brother (making Guinness' fifth picture with Lean, beginning with Great Expectations) and Sir Ralph Richardson, who plays Tonya's father, with Siobhan McKenna as Tonya's mother. To add further strength to the cast, Lean tapped Rita Tushingham (The Girl with Green Eyes), Tom Courtenay (King Rat), and, for the role of Lara's calculating seducer Komarovsky, the film's only American actor, Rod Steiger...
...Winter. Rita Tushingham, who plays Lara's and Zhivago's love child, found working on the set "terribly intense." Tom Courtenay grimly recalls being asked to pose as Strelnikov on the platform of the armored train: "No dialogue. No expression. But that bloody scene took two days to shoot." Geraldine Chaplin's most vivid memory is working in the hot Spanish sun while wearing black wool stockings, boots, three sweaters and a fur jacket: "I was so soaking wet, I felt I was leaving big soggy footprints...
KING RAT. James Clavell's novel about the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp is an unforgettable screen drama, strongly played by James Fox, Tom Courtenay and George Segal-the latter as a G.I. wheeler-dealer who cashes in on the misery of his fellow inmates...