Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expense of the film's homosexuals, but also suspense. But why focus on the dreary-aspects of this "thriller"? The director himself apparently thinks tantalizing viewers is worth no more than the movie's last ten minutes, when the murderers are finally introduced. By then, you can't miss them: As Benson and Kerwin tool around town in their lavender VW convertible (homosexuals couldn't possibly drive a blue Chevy), an ominous-looking, long black Cadillac limousine appears...
...detectives, with a combined 18 years on the force, almost miss the film's only real, if heavy-handed clue. While at a bar, a friend tells Kerwin, "You know, I think--is the killer." Kerwin looks surprised; the audience looks dumbfounded. But, sure enough, the guy in the bar proves right...
...watching the mud dry. Both are bona fide full-time activities. You may have a full-time job, but watching spring come is the romance in your life." An administrator with the state senior citizens program, she has been up since 5 a.m.: "I don't want to miss a moment, there is so much going on at this time of year." Squelching down the hillside behind her house, she point out the day lilies and ferns pushing up through the puddles and picks wild leeks for breakfast soup. An intense aesthetic response to mud is characteristic of Vermonters...
...monarch, England does not lack for regally imperious voices. Mrs. St. Maugham (Constance Cummings) is a dowager queen who rules a country house, or seems to. She thunders out non sequiturs in the accents of invincibility. She is half dotty, half a sage and always right. As she tells Miss Madrigal (Irene Worth), who has applied for the post of governess to her granddaughter: "Now that there are no subject races, one must be served by the mad, the sick and those who can't take their places in the outside world...
That is why she needs a governess. As it develops, Miss Madrigal is an ex-convict, but she is an owl of wisdom. No one fully glimpses her past until a warmer-than-drawing-room-temperature confrontation in Act III with the judge (I.M. Hobson) who convicted her. Miss Madrigal, it develops, tended a garden during her 15-year sentence for murder. Under her wise ministrations the lime-based waste patch of the play's title also promises to flourish, along with the love-parched inhabitants of the manor house...