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Word: hywell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Face it, Enid," Dad says to Mum. "He's not normal." They are talking about their crazy 21-year-old son Martin (Hywel Bennett), whose idea of a big time is to masquerade as merely retarded. Martin spots an attractive bird named Susan (Hayley Mills) and hatches a plot that eventually gets Dad done in, Susan-ravaged, and Susan's mom cut up like so much kindling. This exercise in Petit Guignol, called Twisted Nerve, has all the suspense of a marshmallow roast, and struggles to make itself more plausible by adding some genetic gibberish about chromosomal damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Genetic Gibberish | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...FAMILY WAY. A young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) who cannot consummate their marriage are the subjects of this comedy that owes a lot of its depth to an extraordinary performance by John Mills as the groom's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Aug. 25, 1967 | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...FAMILY WAY. A young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) who cannot consummate their marriage are the subjects of this delicate comedy that owes a lot of its depth to an extraordinary performance by John Mills as the groom's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...FAMILY WAY. John Mills is superb as a loutmouthed father whose newlywed son (Hywel Bennett) and daughter-in-law (Hayley Mills) are unable to consummate their marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 4, 1967 | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Unfortunately Miss Mills is tied to a long-faced husband (Hywel Bennett). He takes a bite out of life and looks like he's swallowing a rotten cucumber. But his brother (Murray Head) is a winner. He's the kind who eats experience up, swallows it with delight, licks his lips, and looks up smiling. It's hard to see why scriptwriter Bill Naughton didn't make the happy ending Miss Mills running away with her husband's brother instead of Miss Mills making love to her husband. But Mr. Naughton, like so many others, insists that cerebral...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The Family Way | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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