Word: cuckolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years, his last novel had been stuck in the typewriter. Then what suddenly gets the plot moving is an act of infidelity by the protagonist's wife. It is not exactly an inventive solution; Thornhill, at 60, has just discovered that he himself has become a cuckold...
Pascual's cuckold horns become the horns of the sacrificial Spanish bull. Having drawn blood, he charges on till he gores the very flesh that made him: his mother, whom he guiltily loves and hates, who symbolizes Spain. "There is no deeper hatred than blood hatred, hatred for one's own blood," reflects Pascual. He hates his mother for her blasphemy, sluttishness, ignorance and indifference. She cannot even produce tears at the funeral of her younger son. Unconsciously, Pascual decides she will weep blood...
Though Pumpkin Eater in outline resembles a compendium of womanly woes, it plays like a house afire, almost invariably ignited by Actress Bancroft, who could probably strike dramatic lightning from a recitation of tide tables. Having tea at the zoo, she quietly distills despair while a prurient cuckold (James Mason) spews ugly revelations about her husband and his wife. Cornered under a hair dryer at a beauty salon, she blanches, feeling her own anguish cruelly parodied in a chance conversation with a venomous, cast-off drudge. And her spectacular scenes with Finch, pitched against the din of a more...
...compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young typist (Samantha Eggar...
James Booth is attractive and forceful as the young cuckold. U.S. audiences will recognize Murray Melvin from his fine work as a star in A Taste of Honey, but most of the cast are unfamiliar. Some, in fact--like the Jewish bakery proprietress and the pub owner--are not professional actors; they play themselves. Yet there is not an inferior performance by anyone. All are as convincing as the architectural surroundings, now gradually succumbing to the forces of urban redevelopment (one of the buildings used was razed two days after filming...