Word: finches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Rita Tushingham is a young English actress with charm and talent to burn, and in this story of a shopgirl's passion for a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) they give a lovely light...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. She seemed too good to be true in A Taste of Honey. In her second picture, Liverpool's Rita Tushingham, 22, seems even better than that: a girl who both acts like an angel and looks like a star. Peter Finch plays her middle-aged lover and plays him well, but Rita's dazzling presence turns Finch to sparrow...
...cast here, however, as an Irish colleen, still in her teens and fresh off the farm, who falls in love with a man (Peter Finch) more than twice her age, a writer of sorts who lives on Dublin Mountain alone and seems to like it. But he likes Kate too, and he meets her for tea. "Young girls fill me with sadness," he tells her with a little sigh. "They want so much." Kate wants everything life and love have to offer, and one night she decides she has waited long enough. "Kate, you soft wild girl," he murmurs, shaking...
Most of all, Davis shows tact and imagination as an adviser of actors. He spurs the phlegmatic Finch to a thoughtful portrait of the middle-aged man attempting simultaneously to play papa and pitch woo. And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety...
Since Mrs. Suzman and many other Verwoerd opponents are Jews, Nationalist backbenchers shifted from white supremacy to antiSemitism, shouting: "Go to Israel!" One Nationalist M.P. was more poetic. He told Mrs. Suzman, "You are a finch chirping on a thorn tree...