Word: cristoforou
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Public Eye has the edge in freshness and invention. Mr. Cristoforou (Barry Foster) materializes in an austerely elegant London office lined with muted leather bindings. Against this background, Cristoforou is a sartorial explosion of black and brown stripes, flaming yellow tie, a café-au-lait shirt, off-beige shoes, and foreign correspondent's raincoat. He is also a walking menu of odd goodies. Out of his pockets and briefcase, he dredges and devours bananas, Brazil nuts, cartons of yoghurt and handfuls of macaroons, while flourishing an empty sugarcellar. A Greek by descent, and a private detective by happenstance...
This bizarre detective's job is to follow the wife of a stuffy intellectual accountant who suspects his spouse of being unfaithful. She is a jazzy emotional urchin less than half her husband's age. Their teacher-pupil marriage is threatened with a permanent recess. Peripatetic Philosopher Cristoforou teaches them the saving lesson that love in marriage is content rather than form, the sharing of experience rather than the bandying of words...
...husband and wife, Moray Watson and Geraldine McEwan strike precise discords. Barry Foster's vibrant Cristoforou is a more remarkable and indefinable creation, a Pan in spiv's clothing sounding pipes of pleasure that carry a lingering echo from ancient pagan groves...
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