Word: manors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Accident), The Go-Between begins with images and words which suggest that tired tricks are abandoned, and that Losey and Pinter have put a novelistic concentration of characterization and detail on the screen. The credits are projected against a raindropped windowpane: we see glimpses of green foliage and a manor-like brown blur. A pitted voice speaks: "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there...
...child of the voice's memory does: the great country hall set at the peak of a sculptured lawn, with sunlight tinging the entire scene, flecking the grass with gold and making shadows deepen. There are two children holding tight to their caps as they're whirled to the manor door. The smaller, the pained and worried one, is Leo Coston, the narrator. Somehow, the hall is never as big as Leo's first glance suggests...
...Kirk. The Douglas home is on the market, priced at $750,000. Nor is it languishing alone up on the block: there are twice as many houses in the Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills areas listed this year as last year. George Hamilton sold his 39-room manor for $300,000, then squeezed himself into a nine-room house...
...complaints about mosquitoes, the altitude, faulty plumbing, dysentery and pickpockets were unending. Dubbed "Claustrophobia Manor" by the athletes, the barracks-style housing for the 4,000 competitors from 33 countries was woefully overcrowded. Wary of trouble from students who had protested the amount of money that Colombia was spending on the games, security-minded officials turned the athletes' village into a kind of jock concentration camp. "I felt uneasy at first with the barbed wire and the guards carrying rifles," said U.S. Fencer Marie Grompone, "but you get used to it after a while -almost...
...Between, like Accident, is doused with sensual summer sunlight (Cinematographer Gerry Fisher did the superb work on both films) and haunted by time. "The past is a foreign country," says the narrator, over a shot of an English manor house. "They do things differently there." Immediately the film plunges into a splendid reconstruction of the Edwardian era, all etiquette and innuendo, cascading lace and carriages, mirrors and staircases (the last two, familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate...