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...Granted that Luther was too often dismissed as a neurotic misfit. Too frequently was he portrayed as the vice-regent of Satan who slyly wormed his way into the priesthood. But to claim that "Luther's conviction that all men stand equally naked before God constitutes the theo logical substratum justifying liberal democracy" is poppycock. Listen to a sample of Luther's democracy: "The princes of this world are gods, the common people are Satan, through whom God sometimes does what at other times he does directly through Satan, i.e., makes rebellion as a punishment for the people...
MORGAN! An improper bohemian misfit (David Warner) goes ape and declares gorilla war on his former wife (Vanessa Redgrave) in a wayward British comedy that only occasionally gets out of hand...
MORGAN! A misfit artist tries to woo back his divorced wife by behaving like King Kong in an offbeat comedy that might easily have run amuck except for polished clowning by David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, two of Britain's showiest young stars...
MORGAN! A misfit artist tries to woo back his divorced wife by behaving like King Kong in a hilarious, offbeat comedy that might easily run amuck except for polished clowning by David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, two of Britain's showiest young stars...
Warner, as Morgan, catches every kink and twitch of a natural misfit who can only sense progress when he is swimming against the stream. In his world of fantasy, he is brutal, primitive. To the world at large, he looks rather more like an adolescent giraffe perpetually swallowing the lump in his throat. The real world gains on him when, armed with several lethal weapons, he confronts his rival, "a greasy art dealer," and hoarsely croaks: "She married me to achieve insecurity-you can't take that away from her!" The point is almost proved by Vanessa...