Word: fletcherizers
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Scoring: Kirkland--Lamb, 3; Holly French; Henry Gill. Dunster--McClure; Thompson; Roger Perry; Henry Fletcher...
...smaller roles, Edna Preston bustles as the perpetual Cockney maid is expected to, and Mary Mace is proper and prim as Sir John's secretary. Maxine Sheppard looks natural in the cynical, sophisticated--and bitchy--role of Lady Fletcher...
...ending. A 17-year old English youth, played by Dick Van Patten, who had the same role in the Broadway version, returns to London in 1944 after spending the blitz period safely in Canada. While he was gone, his newly-widowed mother had fallen in love with Sir John Fletcher, a rich, handsome, married cabinet minister. He finds them living together in luxiuriant--and informal--domesticity...
...leftist Canadian "organization" believes Sir John to be a "menace to world industrial reorganization," and just one small step above a Fascist. Sizing up the dramatic possibilities, Michael becomes a moping, moody Hamlet. He believes Sir John murdered his father and accuses his mother of "living in sin" with Fletcher...
Finally Mom decides to give up Fletcher for Michael, and the third act finds mother and son doing nicely thank you at a rather too cheory, peaches-and-cream colored flat in another part of London. When Sir John returns, with a divorce promised, and still in love, Mom at first refuses to marry him, but over a couple of shots of gin with Michael, Fletcher gives the boy ideas for his own love life. Somehow the boy matures and understands, and though the audience is never sure quite how it happened, True Love conquers...