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...ably directed by TV's Stuart Rosenberg, takes place in a small town in East Germany. As the film begins, the local pastor, hauled into court for a travesty of a trial, is sentenced to five years at hard labor. The new pastor (sensitively played by Michael Gwynn) arrives. At once an official campaign of petty harassment gets under way. When the congregation gathers to greet its new leader, the police perfunctorily break up the party; church buildings, the inspector coldly explains, are licensed for religious education, not for social gatherings. When the pastor refuses to sign an official...
...your picture of Charles II's mistress, Nell Gwynn, you boys can't even tell Nell from Louise de Kèroualle...
Winifred Wells, Lady Falmouth, the Countess of Kildare, Frances Stuart, Lou ise de Keroualle, Hortense Mancini and Nell Gwynn. "God would not damn a man for a little irregular pleasure," Charles said happily to a friend. Dignity sometimes demanded that he send John Wilmot, the licentious second Earl of Rochester, to the Tower of London for writing obscene satires. But the King always...
...witch hunt when he could, signed death warrants when he had to, and eventually restored order. Pearson tells the famed story of how, at the furor's height, a boisterous mob stopped a gilded carriage, thinking that Charles's French mistress, Louise de Keroualle, was inside. Nell Gwynn saved matters by sticking her head out and saying, "Pray, good people, be civil: I am the Protestant whore...
...purple, he was so handsome, witty and intelligent that Louis XIV was maliciously pleased to describe him as "almost,the only English gentleman he had seen." Buckingham could "fix" anything, from a political treaty to a royal date: it was he, for example, who introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynn and arranged for the King to discover the Duchess of Cleveland in bed with Jack Churchill. He dabbled in chemistry, playwriting, poetry and music, and' his swordsmanship was such that peaceful men turned pale and ladies swooned when he strode into their presence. Along with his fellow rakes, Buckingham...