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Bryant Weeks makes a fitting mate for the fair Imogen. He portrays the jealousy and frustration of the low-born Posthumus Leonatus by tossing his hair and groaning piteously...
...plot (surprise, surprise) revolves around the competition between a likable but apparently low-born shepherd Strephon (Arthur Fuscaldo), who happens to be a fairy from the waist up, and therefore immortal, yet insufficiently prestigious to vie with the rapacious royals for the fair Phyllis' (Laurie Myers) hand in marriage...
...confirmed a dream addict as any of the tosspots in The Iceman Cometh, Con Melody is unlike them in having a family around him-a low-born wife Nora (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who unfalteringly loves him, his mettlesome daughter Sara, who is increasingly roused to hate. Yet each inspires in him only a more desolating sense of aloneness. In the costly family game of lies and consequences, Con bears more than a few resemblances to O'Casey's Paycock...
...Above all, Stavisky is a man whose sense of living is somehow heightened, whose gestures are grandiose and larger than life. But, like a force of nature, or a mutant, he is never explained--we are left unclear whether this strange, attractive figure is the eternal type of the low-born, high-living con man, an Ivar Krueger or Bernie Cornfeld, or the unique, demented product of his own life history...
...low-born blacksmith is the famous Desert Hawk." Yvonne De Carlo to Richard Greene in The Desert Hawk...