Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Two Can Play (Kingsley International). Bangalangalang! It's the Mickey Mouse alarm clock. 6:30. Dad (Peter Sellers) slaps it off, rolls over, inspects the soft female back turned toward...
...Dad ducks under the covers. Mum (Virginia Maskell) staggers up, eyes like bruises, hair like last year's alfalfa. Puts the baby on the pot, the water on the stove. Dad sinks blissfully into stolen snooze. "Wake up!" squeals his darling daughter, knocking on his head with her knuckles-hard. "Ah, c'mon!" Mum squalls at the baby. "Yer not tryin'." Dad weaves toward the bathroom, battles an ancient geyser for five minutes, achieves a pathetic dribble of tepid water, starts to shave. "Breakfast!" Dad slumps groggily over his coffee. "Now don't be late, dear...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
...then all the conditioning of military training and Mother England falls before the conditioning of Nottingham and Dad and the dole. He lets the peasant...
Brian is astonished and elated by his action. " 'What did you do in the war. Dad?' " he imagines them asking at home. " 'I caught a Communist and let him go.' 'What did you do that for, then?' 'Because he was a man.' And not everybody will look at me gone-out. 'Brian, my lad, I'm proud o' you,' the old man would say." Later, in an ambush that looks for a while like the finish, Brian deliberately aims his gun so as to avoid hitting the enemy...