Word: lodgers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That much of it amounts to one joke-and not an especially good one. The real star of the show-in fact, its only excuse- is George Rose, who plays Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play is full of Henry's preening, his outrageous, satiric gaiety, which has something quite likable about it. Rose, who looks here like a limp Morey Amsterdam, brings the fat farm drama alive...
...modest chronicle The Hound of the Baskervilles; he ad elucidated The Adventure of the Second Stain for the Prime Minister. We had also known curious cases. There was, for example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem of Thor Bridge). But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with...
...acute and often hilarious interviews are illuminated with clips from some 108 films, including rare footage from Hitchcock's silent The Lodger and Vincente Minnelli's neglected adaptation of Madame Bovary. Some of the films reveal youthful naivete; a few are outright embarrassments. But most are works of honest craft, and a surprising number are examples of authentic...
...much as confirm their existent prejudices. A Jesus Saves sign looms briefly out poor Rod Taylor's window. Here I air a prejudice of my own. I would rather have my symbols built openly into a-film's structure (like Hitchcock's Tonight Golden Carls sign in The Lodger, or Hawks's The World is Yours-Cook's Tours sign in Scarface ), than hold or pan-away from lurid urban graphics as Antonioni too often does...