Word: moor
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...requires two great actors to ignite, between them, the flaming poetry and the kindling passion of Shakespeare's tragedy. This British National Theater production, color-filmed on stagelike sets with a restrained cinema technique, is a one-man show that scants Iago to star Laurence Olivier as the Moor. London critics were overwhelmed by the almost inexhaustible resourcefulness of Olivier's stage interpretation. Archivists should cherish the film as a record of what happens when the greatest actor in the English-speaking theater attacks a famous, difficult role and stamps his genius upon it. Yet Olivier...
...performance. His makeup looks false, and through the blackface gleams a supreme actor's intelligence, timing every phrase, calculating effects, revealing the mechanics of his trade in monstrous closeups. It is a spectacular display of virtuosity, but seldom very real or deeply moving or quite subservient to the Moor...
...most melancholy voice sobbed. "I've come home: I'd lost my way on the moor." As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window, almost maddening me with fear...
...ghost of a child walked the bleak Yorkshire moors last week, just as did that of Cathy Linton in Emily Bronte's novel of a century ago. This time the child was real, and murdered. The body of a ten-year-old girl who disappeared three days after Christmas when leaving her home in Manchester for a holiday excursion, was discovered three weeks ago, naked, in a shallow grave on the Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire...
...discovery set up a huggermugger that still swirls about Saddleworth, a mist-shrouded, hilly corner of country England near where Yorkshire, Cheshire and Lancashire meet. Acting evidently on the advice of tipsters, police began combing the moor three weeks ago. First, they found the girl's body, then, in a second grave, that of a twelve-year-old boy, missing for nearly two years from his home in near by Ashton-under-Lyne. Half a dozen neighborhood children between the ages of 12 and 16 are also listed as missing...