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...GUEST. On film, Harold Pinter's The Caretaker retains much of the eerie fascination it generated onstage. Donald Pleasence repeats his matchless performance as the raving old derelict whose war with existence may or may not be Everyman...
...Novelist Langfus' Maria is not one of Sagan's self-indulgent heroines. A survivor of three years in a German concentration camp in which she lost her husband and parents, she has a derelict's vision of the world as a place where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless. The secret of survival in such a world, she has learned, is to smother every flicker of feeling. The old man appeals to her at first because he seems to offer her comfort in exchange for a minimum emotional payment on her part...
...Guest. Into a junk-filled room atop an otherwise empty house in West London totters an old derelict named Davies. Clothes flap on his bony frame like weather-beaten posters on a board fence. A bristling compendium of social evils, he is dirty, mephitic, bigoted, violent, treacherous. "I been left for dead more than once," he rasps. For 15 years he has been trying to make a trip down to Sidcup "to get my papers. They prove who I am, I can't move without them papers...
Seedy family house, two rooms in basement. Decor peeling, faded, floral and flyblown. If you are too late to secure this gem, we have a spare along the road, rather more derelict. A lightly built member of our staff negotiated the basement stair but our Mr. Halstead went crashing through...
...runs away, is seduced by a bareback rider. Where on earth went all of Pat's on-screen morality? "I have stepped out of the groove," he said. "In my first six movies I played myself. From now on I don't care if I play a derelict or a drug addict, just so long as the movie has a worthwhile message...