Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director, Jack Clayton, treats their excesses straightforwardly. No tricky angles or fancy pans. His cast--Dirk Bogarde and a flock of children--is impeccable. The only mistake is the music, which sounds like a grown-up reminiscing about a sweet sad thing. The harshness of silence would have been more appropriate...
Into this precarious and primitive world bursts Charlie Hook (Dirk Bogarde), Mother's former husband and therefore the children's putative parent. Charlie is the classic cad; he gulls the kids with razzle-dazzle and big talk, swindles them out of their savings, and fills their mother's house with booze and popsies. The climax comes when Charlie puts the house up for sale, profanes their devotions, and triumphantly vilifies mother...
...situation is ingenious-though the story is neither probable nor particularly suspenseful-and Dirk Bogarde, as the father, is competent in a stereotype part. But everything else about Our Mother's House is splendid. Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) keeps his camera close to his subjects, frequently narrowing the field of vision to a telling detail-a hand on a sleeve, a pouring pitcher, a pair of eyes-again and again creating the effect of a sequence of stunning stills that build and sustain the mood. The children, though, are Clayton's triumph. Each...
Despite Norstad's earnestness, not to mention mild support from former NATO Secretaries-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Dirk Stikker, the plan got nowhere. It would not have been easy for Americans to accept the picture of their President sitting around a Swiss chalet waiting for anybody-or nobody...
ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic, skeletal dialogue, Joseph Losey directed...