Word: geeson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finds lodgings in the Chelsea flat of Roddy (Robin Phillips), the son of "decayed gentle folk." Roddy's own insecurities lead him to identify more and more with Mackenzie's black friends and to lure him into a dead-end love affair with a white girl (Judy Geeson...
...thought I told you never to come here," barks the man at his mistress. The line is a cliche, but then so is the situation. A British salesman, Steve Howard (Rod Steiger), picks up a snippy, nubile hitchhiker named Ella (Judy Geeson). In a little black notebook, Ella has been rating her loves the way a teacher marks her pupils. After a night in a Birmingham hotel, she grants the salesman an A minus, a mark that prompts him to give his wife...
Under Peter Hall's restrained direction, Bloom and Steiger prove adept as stiff-upper-lip types. They are given fervent support by Geeson and by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. But no troupe could be expert enough to elevate 3 Into 2 from its confined and pallid plot...
...loose-lipped girls, "Nobody likes a slut for long." He throws away the books, begins discussing such forbidden subjects as sex and rebellion. The shock treatment works. The class regards him with a mixture of awe and fear, begins to call him "Sir." One of the girls (Judy Geeson) falls in love with him, and one of the boys challenges him to a boxing match. The boy loses, gaining Poitier the final measure of respect. By the time that Poitier receives a job offer from a Midlands factory, the once hostile class has become a bunch of friendly natives...