Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POOR COW. Actress Carol White is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope in the flat she shares with a thief...
...POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never hurts...
...POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes...
Documentary in style, Poor Cow opens with a closeup of Joy (Carol White) in pain. She writhes and thrashes, panting. A nurse puts an anesthetic mask over her face, and the camera moves down her body as the doctor's hands deliver the child and start it breathing. Though her husband Tom (John Bindon) is a crude, bullying, small-time criminal, Joy manages a pathetic simulation of middle-class domesticity-living in a development house, airing baby Jonny in a swanky pram, serving hostessy sandwiches to Tom's accomplices while they are plotting a caper...
...that Italian-born Producer Joseph Janni (Darling; Far from the Madding Crowd) has recruited from British television. Terence Stamp, 28, is the only member of the company with any movie experience to speak of. John Bindon, 24, is an ex-merchant seaman who has never even acted before. Poor Cow is also the first film for TV Director Kenneth Loach, 30, who has achieved a personal, idiosyncratic immediacy with a hand-held camera and ad-libbed dialogue that sounds natural enough to have been taken off a tape recorder...