Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MERVYN HARRIS is a machine politician. In many ways he is not unlike the men who maintain Democratic machines elsewhere, but he happens to be a Republican in Delaware County, the right wing bastion situated between Philadelphia and the state of Delaware. The county seat in Media, of F.B.I. fame. The 1971 heist and subsequent publication of secret papers from the one-man bureau office in Media put the town briefly into the national spotlight, for the first time since Carl MacIntyre's radio station there was shut down...
...Medak apparently gives his actors free rein, with excellent results. Alastair Sim does a hilarious turn as a dotty bishop of the Church of England, officiating at Jack's nuptials with wide-eyed horror. Arthur Lowe plays Tucker like a recalcitrant titmouse. William Mervyn as Sir Charles, Coral Browne as Lady Claire, and James Villiers as their epicene offspring make the Gurneys as engagingly insufferable as a gallery of aristocrats from Punch...
There are other cracks in the supposedly unified black front. Mervyn Dymally, a state senator from Los Angeles who is the most powerful black politician in the state, has served notice that California's elected blacks do not want to be bound by a national black strategy, regardless of who devises it. In addition, last month's state and local elections revealed that blacks do not necessarily vote as a bloc. Stokes' hand-picked successor in Cleveland was defeated, as were 233 of the 284 blacks who ran for office in Mississippi. Moreover, black voter turnout...
They move to a large, tumble-down cottage in Yorkshire, where the children encounter all manner of strange people and wonderful adventures. A stationmaster named Perks (Bernard Cribbins) answers their questions about trains. An elderly passenger (William Mervyn) waves at them from the dining-car window and eventually befriends them. A sickly man babbling Russian arrives one day, and the family takes him in. The movie does sometimes go sentimental, but mostly in a subdued, funny way, as when Peter's sisters catch him snitching coal for their cottage and he protests "It wasn't stealing...
...quote Gould's friend Bob Kaufman on Gould's changeable attitude (or gradual disenchantment) toward directors, ending with a disparaging comment about Mervyn Le Roy. I am sure Kaufman did not intend to be unkind or unfair, but it is hard to accept such disparagement of a man whose credits include I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Random Harvest, Waterloo Bridge and the production of Wizard of Oz-and whose finest credit is that he is one of the gentlest, most civilized human beings around...